Plankton

Bad Acid Trip

David Helvarg | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green


David Helvarg

More than 40 years after Woodstock it's the ocean that's on a bad acid trip. It's been scraped raw, emptied out, overheated, poisoned and abused, not a good time to be ingesting dangerous chemicals.

Plankton Bloom And A Scary Midnight At Sea

Laurie David | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green


Laurie David

On June 10, Captain Charles Moore set off for the first leg of a four month expedition from California to past the Northern Hawaiian Islands to test for plastic marine debris.

Germany To Try Dumping Iron In Ocean To Fight Global Warming

Treehugger | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green


Ocean Fertilization a Political Hot Potato Dumping iron in the ocean to reverse global warming evokes strong reactions and epitomizes the political ho...

Forget Person Of The Year, Debate The Most Important Species

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green


If you thought the season for debates and voting had ended, think again! Some folks over in the UK -- specifically, the EarthWatch institute -- are de...