Category: Environment
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Shark week on SeaMonster
Tomorrow is day 1 of the Discovery Channel’s famed “Shark Week” – a 7 day orgy of sharks behaving badly, ie, eating stuff. I know zillions of people love it and I know there is some education value there. In fact, this years Shark Week web site has quite a lot of good educational content…
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Following up on the Galapagos Shark massacre
Deep Sea News has been publishing so many must read stories I can’t keep up! For example, See Rick M’s great follow up on the Galapagos shark saga; The truly unfortunate fact is that this news is neither new nor uncommon. And it is global Designation of any parcel of ocean “as protected”, formally or informally, is no guarantee…
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Breaking News: Marine reserves don’t work (well enough)
Marine reserves won’t save the oceans. Not now. Maybe never. So say Camilo Mora and Peter F. Sale in their paper published today. If they’re right, and if people listen, it’s going to stir things up big-time in the conservation world. Nature reserves, parks, protected…
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How leaders in the real world are dealing with climate change
We hear a lot of hot air, if you’ll pardon the pun, about whether the climate is changing or not. But this is not a game — climate change is already affecting people throughout the world. And those who have something real to lose, as opposed to political support of the tea party and coal…
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Nothing trendy about conservation
A nice reminder from Jim’s blog at the Surfrider Foundation. The truth is that there is nothing trendy about conservation. It’s a simple concept which is timeless. Protect the things you love. Read the whole post here.
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Stop illegal overfishing t-shirt
Stop illegal overfishing t-shirt, original design by Made In The Now, available here for 12 more hours! Renowned graphic designer Ben Johnston of JosephMark created the design. It means we’re not full of fish, ie, the oceans are being depleted.
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Blue Haiku
Ocean. Haiku. Two great tastes that taste great together. By Elliott Kurtz from the new blog Panthalassa Rising: Blue-tinged planet spins Ocean rise, again to fall ’till the end of all [Hat tip to Dr. M]
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Anatomy of a shark heist
Below is a guest post by Lindsey Carr, a PhD student in my lab at UNC. Lindsey is doing her dissertation research on the dynamics of shallow subtidal communities across the Galapagos archipelago. Her post is excerpted from a report she wrote for the Galapagos National Park about the catch found on the illegal vessel.…
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Get your reef on
From coral reef scientist, rapper and new father, Dr. Josh Idjadi and SeaMonster, where the rap is real. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flDE0W1Ks_4[/youtube] Subtitled version is here
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Turtle deaths linked to shrimpers in Gulf
First the sharks, now this. Sea turtles have been washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in alarming numbers in recent months. Another casualty of the massive BP oil spill? Not directly, although there may well be a connection. It appears that the culprit is at least in part a surreptitious…