Catherine Clarke Fox Sea turtles have been on Earth for millions of years, but they are in danger of going extinct. The main threat to them is people who kill them for food, according to Dr. Wallace J. Nichols of the California Academy of Sciences and The Ocean Conservancy.But the…
Jesse Senko, Wallace J. Nichols, James Perran Ross, and Adam S. Willcox. 2009. To Eat or not to Eat an Endangered Species: Views of Local Residents and Physicians on the Safety of Sea Turtle Consumption in Northwestern Mexico. EcoHealth 6(4): 584-595. Abstract Sea turtles have historically been an important food…
By Emily Fisher Last time we heard from Dr. Wallace "J." Nichols, he sent us wisdom from a coconuthttp://usa.oceana.org/blog/thinking-coconut. Now he's back with several cool new projects. The first is called Ocean Voices, a website where you can record your own thoughts on the oceans and listen to others' voices,…
Last week I attended a cool gathering - a smallish group of people gathering over wine and munchies not just to network or socialize (that happens anyway), but to hear and discuss stuff outside of the regular work milieu. Kind of like the salons of a past century, but more…
There is an "away," and it's called Midway Island. A tiny little dot in the South Pacific, Midway Island is one of the bodies of land nearest the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and has become a time capsule of our civilization's love of disposable plastics. In the photo above you…
