
Rage Against the Dying of the Reefs by David Helvarg May 23, 2017 View the original online at The Progressive . I first saw coral reefs and the abundance of life they generate as a teenager on a trip to Key West in 1967. Tropical reefs cover less than 1 percent of the ocean, but…

Originally Posted in Surfer Magazine. You expect certain things from a book on the history of the California coast—a forward written by Ted Danson is likely not one of those things. But Sam “Mayday” Malone (look it up, kids) loves the ocean and his experience as a coastie is likely similar to lots of ours:…
See the original post in The Progressive. Posted: October 3, 2016 by David Helvarg Photo by TJ Gehling Soon after I moved to Richmond, California, nine years ago, I was told, “It’s the most beautiful part of the Bay Area no one’s ever heard of.” It rang true even before I made my first sojourn to…

By David Helvarg An interview with Palau President Tommy Remengesau Jr. After helping to establish the world’s first shark sanctuary in his nation’s waters in 2009, President Tommy Remengesau Jr. of the Republic of Palau signed legislation last year that set aside 80 percent of his small west Pacific island nation’s ocean as a fully…

By David Helvarg 1. The World Doesn’t Know What You Know Many of us develop a sphere of expertise and after working with our peers and seeing a few stories in the popular media come to believe the public knows more about what we do than it does. In the United States for example (based on…
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