Amazing Facts about Bowhead Whales and How You Can Help Them
Did you know bowhead whales can boast some surprising statistics? their blubber is more than a foot thick, and their baleen—plates in the mouth that filter prey from water—can grow 15 feet long. But one of their most eye...
Amazing Facts about Bowhead Whales and How You Can Help Them
In its quest to drill exploratory oil wells in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell made a lot of promises to government regulators about its ability to run a safe and clean drilling operation in...
Don’t Let Shell Drill in the Arctic Based on Shortcuts and Excuses
Like a zombie, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico just won’t seem to really die. Estimates for the size of this year’s dead zone, an area of water so deprived of oxygen that it can’t support life, were just released by...
The UnDead Zone
As I stand along the Santa Cruz shore gazing at the vast Pacific Ocean, all looks well. But a silent, unseen threat looms. We knew ocean acidification was a problem in the Pacific Northwest, where highly corrosive seaw...
Ocean Acidification This Way Comes: A Wake-Up Call for California
As George Leonard wrote recently, planning for a stormier, warmer ocean is a daunting but important task. That’s already a reality for those of us living on the Gulf Coast, where sea level rise (compounded by coastal ero...
How the Ocean Helps Keep Carbon Out of the Atmosphere
Pearls of Wisdom is our weekly quiz game. We give you two truths and one lie about our favorite ocean wonders. Your job is to guess the lie. Good luck! We’ll post the answer on Sunday. [polldaddy poll=6242658]
Pearls of Wisdom – Walruses
Today we release our latest data from our International Coastal Cleanup, a tsunami ghost ship appears and BP is still responsible for damage to the Gulf of Mexico. Volunteers from the 2011 International Coastal Cleanup p...