Carbon Explorers are ocean science geekology to the max. They drift with ocean currents, descend as deep as a kilometer to record particulate carbon, then…
There is some amazing news about life on this blue planet. It seems that there is sentient life in the oceans. But in an unexpected…
Carbon fixation by phytoplankton in the open ocean plays a key role in the global carbon cycle though that role is not fully understood. Until…
Ocean pastures offer an unsurpassed richness of biodiversity and incumbent natural drugs The slippery slimy world of ocean pastures dominated by tiny plants and animals…
Few humans think of the oceans of the world as being very much like our lands. But in fact the oceans are very much like…
Here’s my testimony to the US Congress on restoring seas and trees. Trees alone can not save us, but there is salvation in replenishing and…
We All Need Food For Body And Soul On my research voyage last summer (2012) to restore a vast ocean pasture to health we encountered…
History in its many forms is kept alive to teach us lessons. It is the lesson of a parable that is important to us. The…
Whales Are Worms, Farmer Stewards Of Their Vast Ocean Pastures They keep the oceans alive and well and better yet they work for food Many…
As the worlds ocean face cataclysmic collapse due to our treating them as merely transit routes, hunting grounds for wild things, dumping grounds for our…
The Devil fish’s Daughter Even in today’s society the devilfish (octopus) is revered as magical. Long ago a native man who was a Shaman hauled…
Rapid Climate Change and the Role of the Southern Ocean Apr. 8, 2013 — Scientists from Cardiff University and the University of Barcelona have discovered new…
More grass growing means less dust blowing. There is a yin and yang to the life of plants on this planet. Our planet has two…
Just a couple of years ago common wisdom was that there might be 30,000 species of plankton in the surface ocean. The expedition described in…
Did medicines first and foremost doctor Hippocrates also invent the phrase “take two willow barks and call me in the morning.” It would seem so. Man…
I wrote this piece as part of correspondence with a London thinker and speaker on the politics of climate issues. Dear John, If I may be excused…
Over my lifetime I have surely noticed the increasing number of reports on mercury in fish. Almost everyone now knows that top of the food…
Chinese Foreign Fisheries Catch 12 Times More Than Reported, Study Shows Apr. 3, 2013 — Chinese fishing boats catch about US$11.5 billion worth of fish from…
The very key issue in work to develop and deliver the technology and know how to replenish and restore the oceans and in doing so…
A rutter is a mariner’s handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of information for maritime…