Entries for date "2008"

NewsWest: Wallace J. Nichols Joins Esteemed Environmental Thought Leaders in Documentary Film 'The 11th Hour'

Ocean Conservancy Scientist Wallace J. Nichols Joins Esteemed Environmental Thought Leaders in Documentary Film 'The 11th Hour' WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ocean Conservancy's Senior Research Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols, appears in Leonardo DiCaprio'senvironmental documentary film, "The 11th Hour," to inform the film's contenton the issues of climate change and…

DePauw News: Removing Plastic Trash from Oceans Won't Solve Pollution Problem: J. Nichols '89

July 30, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "Plastic does not biodegrade," writes Dan Haifley in California's Santa Cruz Sentinel. "It undergoes a solar-driven process called photodegradation," he reports in an article that includes a quote from Wallace J. Nichols, senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University.…

The Intersection

As I’ve written in the past, species are constantly blinking in and out of existence. This may or may not be of concern depending on your scale of interest. After all, extinction is the only real certainty. Last month Andy Revkin asked, ‘Does the world need leatherback turtles? ‘ Need,…

Discover Magazine

By Sheril Kirshenbaum As I’ve written in the past, species are constantly blinking in and out of existence. This may or may not be of concern depending on your scale of interest. After all, extinction is the only real certainty. Last month Andy Revkin asked, ‘Does the world need leatherback…