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Bush’s Happy Oceans January 4th, 2005 By David Helvarg The horrific disaster from the Asian Tsunamis reflects the power of nature and the sea that we, as terrestrial beings on a water planet must endure. But it also highlights the dangers posed by overbuilt coastlines and lack of science-based warning systems that led Admiral James […]

Post Election Blues November 25th 2004 By David Helvarg Even though ocean conservation is a bipartisan issue, the re-election of President Bush and consolidation of Republican one-party control over the House and Senate will certainly make it more difficult for Blue activists to win passage of a comprehensive Ocean Act in the next four years. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]