Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even... →
Sylvia Earle
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole... →
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a... →
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose... →
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them... →
Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take... →
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or... →
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself... →