Oceans

A Year After Sandy, Living Dangerously by the Sea

We read an interesting story this week by Bryan Walsh on TIME Science & Space. Walsh is a senior writer for TIME magazine, covering energy and the environment. The first sentence of his article tells it all: ‘Sea-level rise amplified the devastating coastal flooding caused by...

Tara Oceans Polar Circle, Bashir and Kiir Meet, Reasons Not to Buy Fur

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Tara left on the Tara Oceans Polar Circle expedition in the Arctic on May 19th from Lorient in France; Bashir and Kiir Meet in Addis As Sudan Reportedly Demands Permission to Pursue Rebels; Winter may be...

Clean Cooking Solutions to the Poor, Wold Water Day, Earth Hour

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Mobilizing a $100 Billion Market to Bring Clean Cooking Solutions to the Poor, and this week we celebrated Wold Water Day and turned off the lights on Earth Hour! - Mobilizing a $100 Billion Market to...

Sea Shepherd: defending the integrity of the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary

Paul Watson is the founder and president of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He recently wrote an article published on The Guardian website: I don’t think that there is a more isolated, more remote, or more forbidding place on this planet than where we find ourselves at this...