Ocean Week, Slime Eels, Mermaids and a Cormorant June 25, 2007 By David Helvarg OCEAN WEEK BUT GETTING STRONGER In 2004, when we held our last Blue Vision Conference, the Pew Ocean Commission had published its report and the US Commission on Ocean Policy was about to publish theirs. There was a lot of speculation […]
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I WISH THEY ALL COULD BE CALIFORNIA May 10, 2007 By David Helvarg I WISH THEY ALL COULD BE CALIFORNIA It’s not just that I’m returning to California to set up Blue Frontier’s West Coast Office this summer. California (state marine fish — the garibaldi) really is beginning to embarrass other coastal states and federal […]
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An Occasional Ramble by the Sea Including Loss, Adventure, bad news and blue news April 3, 2007 By David Helvarg Who hears the fishes when they Cry? That’s what poet Henry David Thoreau wondered. My answer would be Ransom Myers who died of brain cancer on March 27 at the age of 54. One of […]
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CREATURE FEATURE – BATTLE OF THE TITANS March 8, 2007 By David Helvarg In the eons old battle between giant squid and whales you can now score one for the whales and one less for the squid. When I was down in Antarctica a few years ago driving a Zodiac with a couple of scientists […]
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EIGHT CLIMATE DISASTERS ON THE SEVEN SEAS February 1, 2007 By David Helvarg The latest report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us there’s a more than 90 percent certainty that human generated gasses are responsible for the Global Warming we’re experiencing. I’ve long talked about the 4 cascading disasters facing our […]