WaterNotes

GOOD magazine has a serious love for infographics and I happen to adore their latest on sustainable seafood. Created using the same information you and I use all the time from Monterey Bay’s Seafood Watch Program, they came up with a fun.. if large.. pictorial to follow.  Even if its no more portable than the [...]

Gnarly stuff to share this morning: killer whales going after pseudorca whales off the coast of New Zealand. A good friend of mine is currently visiting family down under, and apparently she was able to see much of this action in person!  (Lisa, if you’re reading this, I’m terribly jealous!) It’s not easy to tell [...]

Spring weather has finally set in with mild sunny days and no danger of frost. I set out to tame the wild jungles of dead brush in the garden this afternoon, enjoying the sunshine and the heady smell of confederate jasmine blooms intermingling with the orange blossom drifting in from the nearby grove.  I love [...]

Well, it’s official: three months into 2010 and we’re already experiencing our worst year of manatee mortality on record. I know that seems like an extremist statement, but the situation is pretty severe.  FWC’s latest press release updated the totals for mortality, seeing jumps in the three categories I last highlighted: cold stress, unrecovered, and [...]

I often discuss the illegal trade in wildlife with my students, both from the terrestrial ecosystems like the rainforest and marine areas such as seagrass beds and reefs. Worldwide the trade in live wildlife and endangered species – not just in their products – threatens to unbalance habitats through the loss of seed dispersers, predators, [...]

Surfrider Foundation also chose today to release their movie The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water, but for now just a trailer is available online.  The movie is being screened this afternoon and evening in California.  I’ll anxiously await its posting to their blog KnowYourH2O.org for our enjoyment and thought provocation.

Using collected marine debris in art installations and outreach collages isn’t exactly a novel concept.  However, it is interesting to see various artists use the materials in ways that demonstrate some hidden truth about the issue of plastic trash.  GOOD Magazine, one of my new favorite online reads, recently posted about a pair of artists [...]