California’s salmon fishery reopens this spring after three years of devastating closures — and the forecast is the strongest in years. But the comeback story isn’t about wet winters or dam removals. It’s about what happened on April 11, 2023, when Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano blasted iron-rich ash across the North Pacific, replenishing vital dust to the ocean pastures where salmon put on 95 percent of their body weight. From Alaska’s 119 million pink salmon to California’s record jack returns, the 2023 ocean-entry cohorts are coming home strong everywhere. The volcano told us what the medicine is. The question is whether we’ll act before the next silent years return.
The “most important graph in the world” now has 2025 data. The news is worse than ever. Over just 25 years of satellite observation, the…
Ocean pasture restoration flips the old “drop in the ocean” metaphor on its head. By restoring missing mineral dust with nature-based techniques, we revive marine ecosystems, combat acidification, and cool the climate—proving every single drop and mote of dust can be made to truly count.
Reporting from COP27 in the hot desert of Sharm El Sheik Egypt IMF champion calls for someone, everyone, to speak for ocean life More important…
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In Scotland 25,000 COP26 people are speaking ‘Bureaucratise’ about climate change They might as well be speaking Glaswegian A few are talking about the real…
Are all climate scientists hammers, seeing everything as a nail? Climate Change gravy trains filled to overflowing with climate engineering business plans But Nature has…
My Hypotheses Is Mother Nature Rules This Planets Climate With Her Plankton Blooms Her ocean pastures where the phytoplankton blooms consume and use more energy…
Climate Change Is The Biggest Issue For Most Earthlings For many whose lives depend on the natural health and abundance of the oceans, restoring their…
News from Japan is terrible for NW Pacific fish. Government report show landings in 2016 in Hokkaido the main salmon port is the lowest in…
In climate science ‘models predict’ that warming of the air and oceans leads to more evaporation and that moisture laden air must lead to more…