This story was originally published by David Helvarg in the LA Times on Jan. 25, 2019. It can be viewed here. Fifty years after a California oil spill launched the modern environmental movement, we may finally be moving beyond the age of oil, and none too soon. In October, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
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Time is running out to stop Trump from opening California marine sanctuaries to oil drilling
This story was originally published by David Helvarg in the LA Times on July 7, 2017. It can be viewed here. Time is short if you care about preserving some of California’s greatest natural wonders and recreational opportunities. Six national monuments in our state are at risk, along with parts of all four of the […]
Rage Against the Dying of the Reefs
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 […]
CALIFORNIA: THE REAL GOLD COAST
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: […]
Saving Point Molate—Again
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 […]