Pic o’ the Week: What Lies Under

"Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there." A nice graphic reminder for us by Indonesia-based digital artist Ferdi Rizkiyanto. Find groups and people working to cut down on ocean pollution and debris - here on our plastic/marine debris Twitter list. And give up, as much as you can, single-use bags, bottles and …

Notable Ocean Quotable: plastic bags

“There is no reason a product we use for a few minutes should float in our oceans for a few hundred years.” --Dave Mathews of Environment Oregon After the state legislature failed to take decisive action to reduce Oregonians' use of single-use plastic bags, a mosaic of activists, conservationists and just plain sensible people are working …

Life in the Gulf’s Mississippi Canyon

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon's well is spewing 5,000 gallons of oil a day into the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico's Mississippi Canyon. Engineers try to build a dome over the gusher, while others work on digging a "relief" well nearby in a bid to stop the flow. Today we revisit some of …

refuges in the first oil impact zone?

Much news, none of  it good, is streaming to us from the Gulf of Mexico, where an exploded oil rig has likely claimed 11 human lives and its uncapped well has gushed over 818 tons of crude oil into the sea so far and is spewing out more than 210,000 gallons a day. Today the …