The writings of David Helvarg
“My umbilical is stuck,” MK1 Michael Pearsall reports. “Primary banks going down,” DV1 Geri Cabrera says from where she’s monitoring her fellow diver’s air, communications and depth on the XLDS (Extreme Lightweight Diving System). We’re on a Coast Guard pier in Alameda, Calif. It’s a hot, clear day, and we can see his bubbles about…
Photo Credit: NOAA Article on McClatchy DC by: Vera Bergengruen WASHINGTON – The looming possibility of offshore drilling just 50 miles from South Carolina’s coastline could find more than one presidential candidate looking out of their depth as the state’s February primaries approach. Coastal communities, businesses and lawmakers across the state have been taking sides for months…
Call me Sam. I’m on a heroic, Homeric journey that’s taken me down this great river to the sea and then several years in the ocean where I became a voracious predator of krill and shrimp and fellow fish and then unerringly returned as an older and wiser salmon to these my natal waters. I…
I’m stoked about what’s going on at Blue Frontier but even more concerned about the state of our ocean. Just last month while snorkeling in Hawaii I witnessed reefs turned skeletal white by coral bleaching. We’re now in the third global bleaching event since 1998 caused by warming oceans driven by the burning of fossil…
So what do conservative Reps. Curt Clawson of Florida and Mark Sanford of South Carolina, liberal Rep. Sam Farr of California, climate activist Bill McKibben, a former petroleum engineer, an evangelical minister and a surfer all have in common? No, it’s not a joke. They all spoke out against offshore oil and gas drilling at…
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