- Feds Ban Krill Fishing to Save it for the Whales - AP
- Arctic Could Lose Majority of Ice in 30 Years - Sci-Tech Today.com
- Microsoft Summit Aims at Environmental, Energy Solutions - greentechmedia
- EarthTalk: Do Home Fertilizers Harm Nearby Bodies of Water? - Miami Herald
- Fishing With Big Brother - Boston.com
- Untold Thousands of Crab Pots Litter Ocean Floor - AP
- Crabbers Partner With Scientists in Ocean Research - AP
- Privatize the Seas? If Only Solving Overfishing Were So Easy - Grist
Last Updated: July 15, 2009
by: JonB
What Would Darwin Think?
Often by the time the mainstream media runs big stories about an environmental battle it’s often too late. I’ve seen it up-close dozens of times during the past couple decades and have reported so many David-versus-Goliath stories – usually positing good-hearted indigenous peoples and international environmental groups against greedy, monolithic utility companies and strong-arming government agents – that the stories have almost become fill-in-the-blanks. (Just change the name of the indigenous tribe, the utility company and the country and the story – and outcome – are usually very similar.)
Yet despite ominous recent headlines in the Wall Street Journal (“Galapagos Under Siege”), the Times (“Can Darwin’s Lab Survive Success?”) and UK’s Independent (“Tourism, Over-Population and Overfishing Have Become ...
Aquarius … Sinking
“Over the next two-and-a-half months, a team of scientists and marine engineers will complete the installation off British Columbia of NEPTUNE Canada, the world’s largest and most advanced cabled ocean observatory. Using three ships and at least one ROV, the team will lower five thirteen-ton nodes and more than four hundred instruments and sensors to the seafloor where they will be attached to n five hundred mile loop of powered fiber-optic cable laid in 2007.
“Led by the University of Victoria, NEPTUNE Canada pioneers a new generation of ocean observation systems that—using abundant power and the Internet—provide continuous, long-term monitoring ...
Floating the Dead River
Afloat on the Dead River in northern Minnesota just a few miles south of the Canadian border on a – finally – beautiful early summer day with my friend Will Steger we are on the lookout for the critters that habituate this part of the world – beavers, moose, painted turtles, loons, otters, minks, black bears and many more. The sky is indigo, studded with big white cumulus clouds, and the river’s banks lined with just-blooming lily pads backed by tall reeds. The river got its name not because it’s a dumping ground for bodies or badly polluted but ...
A Wind-Swept Day in the Aleutians
Ten years ago today we were in the heart of the Aleutian Islands, pushing off from Herbert Island and headed back to Chuginadak. Last night I went back to the voice messages I’d left on National Geographic’s website – we weren’t able yet to send text, photos or video via the satellite phone, only audio – and got a kick out of both the brevity of the messages and the slight tone of fear I could hear. (“Probably our wildest days of adventure were left for the last days of our 25-day trip.... we got out in the middle ...
