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Louie Psihoyos on Dolphins, Plastics and More
Read more: Louie Psihoyos on Dolphins, Plastics and MoreAcademy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos returned to the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast for a conversation as wide-ranging and urgent as his films. Host David Helvarg sat down with Psihoyos before a live audience during SF Climate Week at the downtown San Francisco studios of KALW public radio — and the exchange didn’t disappoint. Psihoyos traces…
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No, Trump won’t be able to drill off California’s coast
Read more: No, Trump won’t be able to drill off California’s coastOur director argues that despite the Trump administration’s recent proposal to open federal waters off California’s 1,100-mile coastline to new oil and gas drilling, it’s highly unlikely that offshore oil rigs will actually be built there. California hasn’t seen new offshore oil lease sales in federal waters since 1984, and longstanding legal protections — including…
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Fighting Offshore Oil Again with Richard Charter
Read more: Fighting Offshore Oil Again with Richard CharterIn the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein speak with longtime ocean activist and former guest Richard Charter about the Trump administration’s punitive effort to open the entire California coastline to offshore oil drilling. It has been several years since their last conversation with Charter, who has…
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By land or sea, using the military for law enforcement raises red flags
Read more: By land or sea, using the military for law enforcement raises red flagsBackground on the StrikesThe article examines the Trump administration’s decision to carry out military strikes against boats off Venezuela’s coast, which it claimed were tied to narcotics trafficking. Officials justified the attacks by labeling the targets as “unlawful combatants” in a self-declared “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels. Legal and Ethical ConcernsCritics argue that the…
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Will California’s marine mammal conservation success come undone?
Read more: Will California’s marine mammal conservation success come undone?Dramatic Comebacks & Current Scope of Biodiversity Thanks to landmark protections like the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) and the Endangered Species Act (1973), many of California’s marine mammals have staged impressive recoveries over the past 50 years. Species such as California sea lions, northern elephant seals, harbor seals, whales, dolphins, porpoises, and southern sea…
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