A Bit Of Reef Relief July, 18th 2004 By David Helvarg Shortly after the Blue Vision Conference in July I went down to Florida for a board meeting of Reef Relief, during their annual Reef Awareness Week in Key West. On the way south for four days of above and below water meetings (with hawksbill […]
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An Occasional Ramble By The Sea June 22nd, 2004 By David Helvarg After going through security at the Department of Commerce I buy a $25 dollar ticket and join the long line of some 1,000 people wending their way through one of the building’s high ceilinged marble and granite galleries. It’s June 16, 2004, another […]
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An Occasional Ramble By The Sea June 1, 2004 By David Helvarg Roland Emmerich, the director who gave us Independence Day and Godzilla is back to wreck more havoc on New York in a Global Warming Disaster flick titled The Day After Tomorrow. The one difference from his previous special-effects movies is that scaly spacemen […]
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An Occasional Ramble By The Sea April 20, 2004 By David Helvarg The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (COP), after many delays, finally came out with its draft report today and it’s a doozy at over 400 pages with almost 200 recommendations for change. I went to the Commission briefings at the National Press Club […]
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An Occasional Ramble By The Sea March 18, 2004 By David Helvarg It’s been a mixed week for the oceans. The good news is the US put a halt to longline swordfishing in Pacific waters off California. Longlines trail thousands of hooks from up to 50 miles of line per boat. This has made for […]