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…
Back in the 1990’s I learned the hard way about the meaning of life. I’d always been a naturalist and conservationist and also a regular…
Quest carbon capture project costing public funds 1000 times that of the village funded Haida Salmon Restoration Project, and yielding a tiny fraction of the…
A friend reminds me to accentuate the positive. Sometimes it is the simple messages that are the most important. In a month where I’ve had…
Some months ago, just before Christmas I believe, our Haida Salmon village office received a telephone call from a woman who identified herself as an…
Over the many years in planning our village project we ran across many scientific questions that we hoped our work might help provide clues and…
Confirming what I’ve been going on about for nigh unto 20 years high and rising CO2 in the air is growing more and bushier plants…
“Damning With Faint Praise.” A well-known precept of journalism is that “Dog Bites Man” isn’t news, but “Man Bites Dog” is. On this principle, saying…
Back in the spring of 2012 long before our project set sail we had enjoyed ordinary collegial relationships with scientific colleagues in government science organizations…
Ocean Pasture Restoration: Can We Afford To Postpone Exploring This Option?
Climate Change: Current Issues 2011 Provided in cooperation with: Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW). Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Open…