At the end of this post I am going to invite you to join us in a “Virtual Lobby Day” in Washington DC! In last week’s post we applauded all of the new administrative directives on the rapidly unfolding climate crisis, and…
Back in the darkening days of the previous administration, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020 – a roadmap to advancing our engagement with the ocean with a…
While it is 30 years too late, we may be saved from the worst of climate catastrophe as the wheels fall off the petroleum industry.
Since the end of April I have avoided the airport numerous times, and I’m sort–of getting used to it. Will “Zooming” replace scientific conferences?
Late last week Daniela, OCR’s Communications Director, posted a tragic video taken from above the Miami “Seaquarium” of Tokitae (a.k.a. ‘Lolita’), a captive orca. The video has stirred up a lot of emotions – and comments, because the captive plight of…
As the state slowly opens up, we hear the elevated noise of our society in the ambience. Savor the quietude we have and remember it. We could wake up to a calmer, quieter world.
Who would have imagined that we would be in these circumstances 50 years after the first Earth Day? We all thought the ceremonial designation of a day to honor the Earth was advanced specifically to avoid this grim horizon –…
In these last months of the current administration, they are hell-bent on destroying all regulations that constrain extraction industries – which is why we need to show up!
I hardly got my feet on the ground from our Alaska project before heading to San Diego, the land of calm seas and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The incentive was the 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society, along with the…
