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...
Category: Natural Disaster
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...
Drink beer for Sandy relief
At the end of the F line in Coney Island, Brooklyn stand three of the city’s more venerable institutions:...
A recap of Hurricane Sandy: the ocean version
As a native Long Islander, I watched intently as Sandy made landfall. Offshore of NY Harbor, winds gusted up...