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Balancing Wonder and Warning: Dr. Ben Halpern on the Future of Our Oceans
Read more: Balancing Wonder and Warning: Dr. Ben Halpern on the Future of Our OceansIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David and Natasha speak with Dr. Ben Halpern. Along with being a past Peter Benchley Ocean Award winner, Ben serves as Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also…
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Labor is for ‘Revolution’ in Offshore Wind
Read more: Labor is for ‘Revolution’ in Offshore WindIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David speaks with Erica Hammond, Legislative Director of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO. They represent most of the roughly 1,000 workers who’ve been out of a job since the Trump administration issued a stop-work order in August on the ‘Revolution’ wind farm project. That’s a 5 billion-dollar 80…
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Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away
Read more: Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going awayThe Kelp Collapse Since 2013, Northern California’s kelp forests have been devastated by a combination of extreme marine heatwaves and the loss of sunflower sea stars to wasting disease. With their main predator gone, purple urchins exploded in number, stripping away kelp and leaving behind vast “urchin barrens.” Image by NOAA Sanctuaries Ripple Effects Kelp…
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Drew Harvell — Exploring the Secrets of the Sea
Read more: Drew Harvell — Exploring the Secrets of the SeaIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein of the Inland Ocean Coalition interview Dr. Drew Harvell, an esteemed professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. The discussion delves into the recent breakthrough in identifying the bacteria responsible for sea star wasting disease, which…
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It’s Time to Save the Whales Again
Read more: It’s Time to Save the Whales AgainDavid Helvarg recently wrote an article on the LA Times highlighting the recent attack on the Marine Mammal Protection Act by Rep. Nick Begich. The Golden Era of Environmental Protection David recalls the environmental awakening of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when disasters like the Santa Barbara oil spill and the Cuyahoga River fire…
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- KGUA Radio – Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast
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