The (Less Than) Eternal Sea
Jun 4, 2013 Happily aloft in the vicinity of my father’s hat, and the weather having cleared since the Ohioan missed its compass heading, I was free to form my earliest impression of the sea at a safe and sunny distance, lulled by the sound of waves breaking on the beach, delighting in the drift of gulls in a bright blue sky.
Old Data Reveals Warming Oceans
Jun 1, 2013 Data collected during the H.M.S. Challenger's four year expedition in the late 19th century shows that oceans are absorbing far more heat than previously realized.
Beachfront
Jan 27, 2013
Plan to Salt the Oceans Gets Thumbs Down
Jan 22, 2013 One proposed method of counteracting greenhouse gas emissions -- fertilizing the oceans with algae-nurturing iron -- would be hugely expensive, requiring a new industry to match the size of the global coal-mining sector, a study says.
What Environmental Reporting Leaves Out
Oct 5, 2012 Reports that scientists are “surprised" that their climate-related predictions are being surpassed suggest that chaos theory -- which says the particulars of the breakdown of the earth's ecosystems are unpredictable -- is going unread, disbelieved or ignored. Reports that scientists are “surprised" that their climate-related predictions are being surpassed suggest that chaos theory is going unread, disbelieved or ignored.
Life Is Sacred
Sep 3, 2012 The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world -- the one steadily collapsing around us.We, as a species, may be doomed. And this is a bitter, bitter fact for a father to digest.
24 Hours of Inconvenient Truths
Sep 12, 2011 With the proportion of Americans concerned about climate change dropping from 62 percent four years ago to 48 today, Al Gore is poised to turn the tide in a daylong lecture on the subject, with an hour devoted to every time zone in the world. (more)
Ocean Life May Be on Edge of Catastrophe
Jul 30, 2011 An extinction event "unprecedented in human history" is probably under way in the world's oceans, according to a report recently released by a panel of 27 scientists reviewing the latest research from all areas of marine science. (more)
Bad News for the Jersey Shore
Jun 23, 2011 New Jersey's leaders have some heavy lifting to do, quickly. Scientists who have reviewed the most detailed study yet produced on the subject of sea level changes over the last 2,000 years are predicting a three-foot rise for the state's coastline by the end of the century. (more)
Millions of Dead Fish Puzzle Californians
Mar 9, 2011 Marine biologists are working to explain the millions of anchovies, sardines and mackerel that washed up dead in a Los Angeles area harbor Tuesday. Whether an algae bloom was a factor in the massive die-off is under investigation.
