The Writing on the Sea-Wall: High Water Line
As science communicators, we are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to translate the ramblings of the ivory tower...
Category: Natural Disaster
The Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science Edition
On the first day of Christmas NASA Earth Science gave to me: advance warning of Hurricane Activity. On...
The Art of Saving Our Seas
“Artivism: An explosion of creativity, a marrying of art and activism” Over the past three years, street artists across...
MH370 and the proverbial haystack.
When does an analogy become useless? How about when it’s less exaggerated than the actual facts being analogized? Take...
Worst-case scenario thinking and Fukushima radiation
This isn’t a map of radiation, it’s a map of wave estimated hight after the Tohuku Tsunami. So why...
No, but in all seriousness…
There have been a number of posts at Deep Sea News lately that have attracted intense commentary and a...
Three Reasons Why Fukushima Radiation Has Nothing to Do with Starfish Wasting Syndrome
This invited post is authored by Chris Mah, a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher. Chris is...
Is Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda one for the record books?
As I was writing this, initial damage reports from the Philippines were still coming in. It looks like the damage from...
This July 4th please enjoy the Explosions of the Ocean
Tomorrow is July 4th. And to celebrate our independence from those tea-taxing-without-representation-people-across-the-pond we Americans will be engaging in our...
Mysterious Mobula mass mortality
From the Italian news site La Repubblica comes this disturbing story (with 15 graphic pictures) of a mass stranding...