Plankton Manifesto, Replenish And Restore Our Ocean Pastures, Or Else!
Beginning 600 hundred million years ago and for hundreds of millions of years plankton bloomed, harvested CO2 from the primordial atmosphere and stored energy from the sun in their oily bodies. They...
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Killing Seas and Trees, Fisheries & Plankton Collapse
Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse By Tom Levitt, for CNN, updated 12:11 PM EDT, Fri March 22, 2013 In many ways, it is the forgotten world on Earth. A...
View ArticleFeeding The Greatest Migration On Earth
Here’s a report I wrote last last summer. The Haida (Hi Da) Salmon Restoration project is nearing completion of its ship borne work and the team of sailors, scientists, and fishers are now heading to...
View ArticleAND YET IT WORKS! Replenishing and Restoring Ocean Pastures, Something...
A friend reminds me to accentuate the positive. Sometimes it is the simple messages that are the most important. In a month where I’ve had my flesh torn and bones broken by ambushing media hounds and...
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Whales Are Worms
Whales Are Worms, Farmers Of Their Vast Ocean Pastures Many people never give a second thought about the roles various ocean life have in the greater scheme of ocean ecology. Most imagine that the big...
View ArticleThe Whale Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want
Few humans think of the oceans of the world as being very much like our lands. But in fact the oceans are very much like land. They are made up of ocean pastures where the grass is plankton and where...
View ArticleWaiting For Orca
My friends Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright and their musical partners have created this song about Orca whales that visit an island in British Columbia each summer. There is a special beach that the...
View ArticleSeabirds Farm Plankton Blooms
In a new paper in the science journal PNAS the long known role of seabirds is reported anew. Seabirds flock to plankton blooms and in doing so their presence is more than just as consumers of the...
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Whale Hunt Is Over We’ll Restore Whale Pastures To Bring Them Back
Today, March 31, 2014, the International Court of Justice finally banned the hunting of whales by Japan. While some in Japan decry the ruling as unfair the government of Japan has acquiesced and agreed...
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Whales Are Geoengineers According To New Scientific Report
International consortia of experts declare whales are potent ecosystem geoengineers It’s uplifting to see a newly published paper in which an international who’s who team of biologists have tallied...
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Is Climate Change All A Lot Of Whale Poop
How to grow more whales that go poop in the night and save the world from climate change. Whale poop seems to be all the rage in the news in the world of climate change as scientific reports of the...
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Antarctic Krill May Go The Way The Wind Blows, Away :(
Climate Changes To Winds Diminishes Antarctic Krill And Plankton In a paper just published this week in Nature by a Rutgers University team it is reported that changes in Antarctic wind patterns tied...
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Mermaid Report – Pacific Pasture Reclamation Provides Farm Jobs For A Billion...
One of our lovely Mermaid science reporters This is the first of what we hope will be a long series of reports from our resident Mermaids. Finally there are reports surfacing that tell how many Pink...
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Blue Whales Spared Ship Collisions On Relocated Restored Ocean Pastures
We can spare blue whales from being run down by ships if we provide them with alternative restored ocean pastures. Even though commercial whaling was banned in 1986 and put an end to the killing of...
View ArticleWhale Children Babble As They Learn To Talk Just Like Human Kids
Listening to our babbling babies learning to talk is one of life’s great joys. We are not alone! Researchers from several nations have reported in a recent paper on the behaviour of giant Sperm Whales,...
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Why Are The World’s Great Whales Dying
Just today comes a new report of finding eight more giant Sperm Whales dead on a German North Sea Beach. In the past 20 years (240 months) there have been, in total, 82 Sperm Whale deaths in the North...
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Starving Great Blue Whales Fleeing Blue Deserts Come Ashore
Reports keeping washing up on our shores of ocean life found like never before. Blue Whales, the largest animals on this blue planet, have come close to urban areas in great numbers Humpback whales are...
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Birds And The Bees Lesson, OK OK so they are not bees but whales
Do you remember that lesson about the birds and the bees? You know the ever so important one your mother taught you, the one about life. Just in case you’ve forgotten here is a striking example that is...
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Evolution Lives and Dies Within Speed Limits… Its Dying Time.
The Horror, 10,000 Paper Meta-Analysis Shows Climate Change Driving Inevitable Mass Extinction Life cannot adapt as fast as our macho human climate driving habits are forcing It’s not a new story of...
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IMF Demands We Must Bring Back The Whales
New International Monetary Fund report says for the good of humanity we must ‘bring back the whales’. Whale carbon, the value from a single whale is worth more $2 million in carbon sequestration....
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