Blue Frontier

Oil Wars, Clean Ports, Climate Kelp and a Sea/Sun of Giving December 13, 2007 By David Helvarg Tracking Oil to its Source A week after a relatively “minor” spill of 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel that killed over 2,000 seabirds and despoiled beaches and wetlands on the San Francisco Bay and along the coast (see […]

Spilled oil, ocean winds, diving camels and Dr. Dolphin November 12, 2007 By David Helvarg Oil Sucks Oil covered birds like you’ve seen on TV look even worse in real life. Not the dead ones so much, except when a gull’s ripped a small floating grebe open in the water and is pulling at its […]

Blue Energy vs. Blue Activists? October 17, 2007 By David Helvarg Almost everyone now seems to agree with Nobel Prize winner Al Gore that the world must make a rapid transition from fossil fuels (see Blue Notes #32, “Eight Climate Disasters on the Seven Seas”). The ocean contains vast amounts of power in the form of […]

Blue Beat, Arctic Heat, Worlds Collide & Changing Tide September 20, 2007 By David Helvarg The Blue Beat Rocks On I moderated a marine panel at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference at Stanford University in early September. Major thematic tracks during the four-day meeting included climate, environmental health, and the ocean (the […]

Dirty Water, Bodysurf, Killer Squid, and Other Summer Delights August 21, 2007 By David Helvarg LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER I just spent a day at Lifeguard Tower Two in Ocean Beach, San Diego, a place where I once lost a decade, lulled into euphoric distraction by the sun-dappled waves and bracing water. This time the […]