The message of plastic pollution is spreading fast around the globe. At the end of June 2011, our Executive Director Daniella Russo led a Plastic Pollution Coalition group on a visit to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala, at the special invitation of Preserve Planet, Jovenes Ambientalistas, SAVIA and G-22. The…
July 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "I've been into turtles since catching them as a kid, and professionally for the past twenty years," Wallace J Nichols, marine biologist and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, tells Ecologist. "The projects I'm attracted to seem to be those considered 'impossible' or 'too late'."…
Marine biologist, lecturer, ocean ambassador and founder of several conservation initiatives, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols speaks to Deborah Bassett about the benefits of wildlife tourism, saving baby turtle eggs and an 112 day trek along the US west coast Deborah Bassett: I am intrigued by your blue marble project and…
Who isn’t made blissful sitting at the edge of the ocean, feet dug into the sand, staring out at that indefinable line where blue meets blue? I’ll wager that a majority of people on the planet feel that seaside allure. I mean, more than half of the human population actually…
"We are more than logical. We are human." --Jacques Yves Cousteau Once, I met a man who hated the ocean. Intensely, he said. He described to me fear, negative associations and a general unease that he couldn't quite put his finger on. His aversion was so strong -- especially when…
