The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Fact vs. Fiction

... by Martin
As a keen supporter of the environment myself, one of the biggest problems with the environmental movement is a tendency to exaggerate. One of the worst examples of this right now surrounds Project Karsei, an expedition to the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or the "...
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Climate Truthers Spend Weekend Looking at Boring E-mails

... by Martin
It's amazing what you can find if you have a bit of imagination, and access to somebody's personal e-mail account. Careful scrutiny of my mails, for example, could reveal many interesting things; that I cycle to work every day, that I am Belle de Jour, and that my...
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International Year of Biodiversity 2010

Sun, 03/07/2010 - 21:59

via youtube.com

If you are on Facebook, become a fan of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010 page for more information on the issues throughout this year.

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Attempting the Impossible

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 09:57


Since the year 2000, a global network of scientists has been attempting something that is seemingly impossible. The Census of Marine Life is the first ever effort to record everything that lives in the World’s Oceans and Seas.

The majority of all records of life in the oceans have been taken from depths of less than 100m, it is clear that even a ten year project such as COML will struggle to map every living organism. Even so, since the work began, researchers have identified over 5600 new species. To demonstrate the sheer scale of the marine world, the initial COML report estimates that there are still over 1 million species that have yet to be described.

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Biodiversity Nears Point of No Return

Thu, 01/28/2010 - 14:03

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, so I thought I would have a look at some of the issues that are being raised this year and, in particular, comments from Hilary Benn, the Government’s Environment Secretary, in a blog on the BBC website. The full article can be found here.

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Introduction

Mon, 01/18/2010 - 14:34

Hi there,

My name is David and I am just taking my first steps into journalism and writing by contributing on this site.

I have recently graduated with a degree in Marine Biology from the University of Portsmouth and I will be commenting on subjects as large as biodiversity and climate change to more specific topics like coastal ecosystems or individual species that make the news.

I will try to post regularly and will welcome any feedback or comments that you wish to make.

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Haiti: teetering on the brink of ecological catastrophe even before the earthquake

Sat, 01/16/2010 - 06:54

When I think of Haiti, the image that comes to mind is of the view I saw from the air, flying over the island of Hispaniola en route between Puerto Rico and Miami in 2003. A striking feature of that island was a sharp demarcatation between a verdant, apparently forested eastern half and a barren dirt-brown western half. Upon glimpsing that demarcation, I first wondered if we were maybe flying over a national park boundary - for that's where I'm used to seeing such a stark constrast back in India. It turned out that I was looking at an international boundary - between the nations of the Dominican Republic (the green east) and Haiti (the brown west). Here's a satellite image of this boundary, courtesy of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Scientific Visualization Studio:

via cnas.org

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32000 Scientists

Fri, 01/15/2010 - 01:43

32,000 leading scientists signed a petition against global warming? Is that really true? Well, no.... But to get to the bottom of this crock , we'll have to go back in history, and meet someone who really was, at one time, a leading scientist.

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The Pod Delusion #17

Fri, 01/15/2010 - 01:35
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Of conflicts and coexistence between humans and nature

Wed, 12/30/2009 - 12:03

As this last year of the so called "noughties" winds down, I would like to share with you a remarkable video, and two stories, of wildlife conservation amid human enterprise, that straddle some of the gamut of conflicting emotions experienced by those involved in any kind of biodiversity conservation during this dismal decade. That entire gamut, of course, ranges from the absolute pit of despair over what we are doing to other lifeforms on this Earth, all the way up to cautious (but ever so skeptical) optimism that maybe, just maybe, we aren't entirely screwed after all, and there may yet be hope for us all.

Let's start with the video, shall we? Of the remarkable human presence in Yosemite National Park in California:

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Climate Deniers Love the 70s

Sat, 12/19/2009 - 11:18

Everyone has a favorite decade, and for Climate deniers, that decade has got to be, the 70s.
Yes, the decade of disco, kung fu, and watergate

Because in the 70's, Deniers will tell you, All climate scientists believed an ice age was coming. Those crazy climate scientists! Why can't they make up their minds?

But is that really true? Maybe a little historical perspective is in order.

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The Express and the European Foundation on Climate: Wrong in 100 Ways

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 01:17

Even as the circulation of The Express collapses, the newspaper continues to lead the way to oblivion with the sort of conspiracy-driven journalism that wouldn't look out of place in the National Inquirer.

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