Ocean eddies are growing “The ocean temperatures east of Tasmania are some of the fastest rising in the world,” said Iain Suthers, a professor at…
What’s your pick of the most important thing that swims in the ocean? Is it the giant Blue Whale, the largest beast that has ever…
Goldilocks eddies, not too big not too small, are self sustaining garden oases for ocean life. New space radar movies reveal new secrets of these ocean wonders.
Subsidies paid to fishing fleets by their government often pays for 60% of the fuel cost. Without these privateers’ subsidies the world’s catch would be…
Seabirds, are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation The relationship, indeed control phytoplankton have over the global…
Oceans contain far more plant life than land. The Southern Ocean has for decades been reported as holding the most phytoplankton of all the oceans….
Ocean pastures have a close-knit relationship with pastures on land. They are both defined by their plant life, the grass and plankton of their pastures….
High CO2 results in declining dust in the wind, in ancient times less dust meant less iron reached oceans to sustain plant life. A new…
Ocean science, as exemplified by the Redfield Ratio, is wrought with scientific theory that over the years has become dogma now shown to be flawed….
Report predicts that loss of ocean net primary productivity over the next 200 years will be at least 50%. The present value of the oceans…
About 56 million years ago, a pulse of carbon dioxide (source unknown) that surged into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, that…
So you’ve heard about the Earth actually being 71% ocean but what does that look like.
While hundreds of millions of dollars remove a few million tonnes of CO2 from smokestacks; hundreds of millions of fish swim home into nets and…
The oceans which make up 70% of this Blue Planet are candidates for being the world’s largest scale, human-made disaster and the world’s best opportunity…
Food aid for those most in need is both a question of charity and a question of available food. Last fall when our pasture fed…
When I was a boy I had the good luck to grow up with a father who liked to fish. While catching fish is the…
Dear James, A friend sent me note a few days ago about the river he lives near that is still frozen but almost ready for…
This Blue Planet is in a fishery crisis. A solution to restore healthy fish is at hand. We just have to get to work to give…
The central California coastal town of Monterey was the setting of John Steinbeck’s depression period novel Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee…
This year’s 2014 wild Alaska salmon season will be stunningly smaller than last year if the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s predictions are correct. The…