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Opinion: A 20-year struggle for environmental justice — and a public park — in one California city
Read more: Opinion: A 20-year struggle for environmental justice — and a public park — in one California cityJust up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black and Asian American — with a major Chevron refinery whose pollution has been an ongoing source of conflict (the city just reached a $550-million settlement with Chevron to mitigate health…
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Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing the Risk of an Oil Disaster
Read more: Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing the Risk of an Oil DisasterIncreased oil traffic between Russia and China through the Arctic Circle is putting Alaska Native communities at an elevated risk for an oil spill. Climate change, compounded by conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, threatens an oil disaster off the coast of Alaska, potentially devastating Indigenous communities and the nation’s richest fishing grounds. This danger arises…
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Florida’s Coral Reef Is Dead—Now What?
Read more: Florida’s Coral Reef Is Dead—Now What?When I first snorkeled off of Key West as a teenager back in 1966, Florida’s coral reef was estimated to have 90 percent live cover—a multi-hued array of fan, brain, pillar and elkhorn corals, shoaling fish, grazing sea turtles, and hammerhead sharks that stretched from Palm Beach to the Dry Tortugas seventy miles west of…
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Opinion: The Oceans Court ruled that the seas are a hot mess. Why haven’t you heard about it?
Read more: Opinion: The Oceans Court ruled that the seas are a hot mess. Why haven’t you heard about it?On May 21, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, in Hamburg, Germany, ruled that greenhouse gases are marine pollutants and nations must take action to “reduce, control and prevent” their effects. The tribunal, sometimes called the Oceans Court, was responding to a request from a consortium of small island nations disappearing under rising seas.…
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Opinion: Is the restoration of California’s cutest keystone species worth it?
Read more: Opinion: Is the restoration of California’s cutest keystone species worth it?Sea otters are terminally cute critters and a delight to view rolling and diving in the kelp canopy of Monterey Bay, where some 3,000 endangered southern otters play an essential role in maintaining the marine kelp forest. But to crabs, clams, abalone, urchins and some fishermen, sea otters are voracious marine weasels that can eat…
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Additionally, our podcast is broadcast on several radio stations:
- KGUA Radio – Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast
- KWMR – Point Reyes West Marin Community Radio
- KGNU & KGNU-FM – Denver & Boulder Community Radio Stations
- KKRN – Round Mountain California Listener Supported Radio
- G-TOWN RADIO – Germantown Community Radio, Philadelphia.
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Each episode navigates insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous, it’s a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world!
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