The Whole Blue Truth
A review of Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them by Ted Danson and Michael D’Orso
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Marine Spatial Planning: A New Approach to Oceans
The Obama-championed idea of “marine spatial planning” sounds good in theory—but simply mapping ocean activities won’t save struggling ocean species.
Turning Plastic To Oil
What if the 48 million tons of plastic waste we produce each year could be turned into oil? They can.
The Shrunken Sea
The disappearance of the Aral Sea in central Asia may be an indicator for the future of climate change—and its political repercussions.
Saving the Green Giants
Are the warming waters of the San Diego Bay supersizing its turtles?
Saved by the Sea
A memoir by David Helvarg of the ocean, family, love, diving and disappearance.
Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts Paying Off — But Not Enough
Sea turtle conservation efforts around the word are starting to pay off, but we need to do a lot more if we want to save these iconic marine creatures.
Trouble for Cape Wind
Cape Wind Associates’ plans to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts have been met with heavy opposition (see “Catching the Wind,” cover story, January/February 2005). Offshore wind projects received a boost from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which gave the Department of the Interior the authority to grant leases […]
Collision on the High Seas
Although the International Whaling Commission has authorized a global moratorium on the sale of whale products since 1982, this has not stopped Japanese fleets from continuing to kill whales (under the banner of “science”) and sell the meat and byproducts on the market (see “The Whale Killer,” Currents, January/February 2003). In late December, two Greenpeace ships came upon a Japanese “research” convoy in the Southern Ocean that was hunting for whales. The Southern Ocean is an Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, which is supposed to be protected from commercial whaling.
What’s Killing Seabirds?
More than 100,000 seabirds of various species washed up on Pacific beaches from central California to British Columbia this past summer—at a time when they should have been in peak condition. Was climate change a factor?