

Top 10 Ocean Stories of 2015 – By David Helvarg Given the cascading ecological threats facing 71 percent of our blue planet here are ten stories from 2015, both good and bad, that impacted the ocean we all depend on.

Call me Sam. I’m on a heroic, Homeric journey that’s taken me down this great river to the sea and then several years in the ocean where I became a voracious predator of krill and shrimp and fellow fish and then unerringly returned as an older and wiser salmon to these my natal waters. I…

In this month’s edition of Blue Notes we’ll discuss Sam Farr’s recent announcement that he will not seek re-election, the growth of the Sea Party, the dire need to stop offshore drilling off the coast of the Atlantic, coral bleaching, and Louie Psihoyos’ extraordinary new film ‘Racing Extinction.

I’m stoked about what’s going on at Blue Frontier but even more concerned about the state of our ocean. Just last month while snorkeling in Hawaii I witnessed reefs turned skeletal white by coral bleaching. We’re now in the third global bleaching event since 1998 caused by warming oceans driven by the burning of fossil…

So what do conservative Reps. Curt Clawson of Florida and Mark Sanford of South Carolina, liberal Rep. Sam Farr of California, climate activist Bill McKibben, a former petroleum engineer, an evangelical minister and a surfer all have in common? No, it’s not a joke. They all spoke out against offshore oil and gas drilling at…
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