Building Things Up For RIO+20
By Daniel de la Calle As we get slowly closer to the month of June and RIO+20 we begin to see more online information linking the summit and Ocean Acidification, which is encouraging. I have also included some related news items to our usual list: »In an article on RTCC (a Non-Governmental Organization and […]
Weekend Material
By Daniel de la Calle ¤Marine Spacial Planning presents a rational approach to ocean management. The system tries to “allocate space in the ocean allowing compatible uses to coexist, separating incompatible ones, all while protecting the environment”. This video presentation with Philippe Cousteau explains things in more detail: “The ocean economy in the USA […]
The Hook that Caught the Fish that Saves the Corals that Inspired the Artist
By Daniel de la Calle Here are a few Ocean and Ocean Acidification news bits found while surfing the web over the past week. I hope some are news to you: •How long has man been catching fish from the open ocean? 42,000 years at the very least. Archeologists from the Australian National […]
Sanctuary
By Daniel de la Calle Islands make for miniature universes, like snow globes: they transform a few miles distance into the crossing of a continent, produce insular dwarfism (where even the animals try to scale down and look only into the restricted cosmos) and remarkable adaptation from its species. I know what it […]
Reconsider Your Shrimp
By Daniel de la Calle » Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass. is hosting an Oceans Symposium and next Monday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m., Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer at The New Yorker, will lead a discussion following a showing of A Sea Change, Imagine a World Without Fish. » Beautiful new documentary on the oceans […]
News and a Rumor
By Daniel de la Calle Distilled from the World Wide Web for you: -The Plymouth Marine Laboratory has launched a new short film on Ocean Acidification. Its title is “Ocean acidification: Connecting science, industry, policy and public”. Here it is -Folks at United By Blue are organizing a cleanup on Saturday June 11th […]
Colombian Countryside Festival
By Daniel de la Calle After almost half a century of fear, murder, blackmailing and threats the “Basque separatist group” ETA, as the New York Times offensively always chose to refer to them, the terrorists responsible for the death of many hundreds of children, housewives, politicians, policemen, military men and college professors has been forced […]
Pizza Vs. Sushi
By Daniel de la Calle Researchers believe we should prepare ourselves for a world with more anchovies and less tuna: Various recent studies indicate a constant decrease in the number of marine predators; from sharks to tuna, our “lions and tigers of the seas” are becoming less and less abundant. If certain key elements […]
A List of Lists
By Daniel de la Calle We are still in January, the month of lists and resolutions for the remaining 11 months or the rest of our lives. Here I list of some of those lists: •The Center for Biological Diversity announced their Top Ten priorities for 2012. Here is the list: 1 Save the […]
A Brave Speech
By Daniel de la Calle I thought this video of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s speech at the US Senate deserved to be posted on its own. Everyone of these 23 minutes is worth listening to. Below you will find a transcript of the part where he talks about Ocean Acidification and HERE the whole text. […]
A Sea Change is in Colombia
By Daniel de la Calle Our documentary will be showing today at the MALOKA center in downtown Bogotá. The screening begins at 5PM and the organizers have promised a very full house, so if you happen to be here, or live here, in this huge capital of Colombia, make sure to come at least a […]
Autumn News
By Daniel de la Calle •Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have launched a sophisticated, unique tool to study the effects of Ocean Acidification on deep-sea animals in their native habitat, using free-flowing water. The idea behind Free-Ocean Carbon Enrichment (FOCE) is to create a test area on the seafloor where seawater pH […]
Assorted News
By Daniel de la Calle •Early last week a group of UN organizations participating at the 36th UNESCO General Conference presented a project to protect the world’s oceans and coasts, so threatened by environmental deterioration. The document, titled Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, will be submitted to RIO+20, the UN Conference on […]
ANTARCTICA
By Daniel de la Calle This week marked the 100th Anniversary of Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole. On December 14th Norwegians around the world commemorated the significant date in various ways and followed through the media the last few miles of a 57 day journey that has followed the famous 1911 route. If this […]
Environmental Capitalism
By Daniel de la Calle Richard Conniff wrote a brilliant piece last year titled “What are species worth? Putting a price on biodiversity” : Had you ever heard about Prochlorococcus, a cyanobacteria responsible for 20% of the oxygen we breathe? It might have only been discovered 25 years ago, but was playing this vital role […]
News, If That’s What They Are To You
By Daniel de la Calle We are half way into the month of February and very much in need of some news about Ocean Acidification, coral reefs and the environment: »Australian study finds that coral reefs in colder waters have benefited from warmer conditions over the past 110 years. The work was carried out in […]
Ocean Acidification News, Again
By Daniel de la Calle I know it has been a while since we last posted news about Ocean Acidification and other related environmental problems on the blog. In an effort to catch up with the latest information out there, here we offer a first list: •Scientists launched the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature […]
News Keep Coming
By Daniel de la Calle A new year has begun and that fabricated clean slate feeling is very encouraging. Please find below the almost classic by now mix of news, job offers and information. Same style, new content: •Fish larvae might be directly harmed by Ocean Acidification: various news published on December 11th, 2011, […]
Ocean Acidification News on the Web
By Daniel de la Calle Some Ocean Acidification news for this beginning of May: ¤Symposium on Ocean Acidification to be held in Canberra, Australia from the 15th to the 17th of June 2011. The event is titled Ocean Acidification and Implications for Living Marine Resources in the Southern Hemisphere and aims to: “enhance the […]
Paradise Lost
By Daniel de la Calle In a world of persistent human interference and degradation we sometimes forget that, unbelievable as it now may seem, there still are a few barely touched paradises left in this ever-shrinking planet. While extreme northern and southern locations have inclement weather and remoteness as their accomplices, to imagine a […]
ON THE ISLAND OF SAN ANDRÉS
Three months ago A Sea Change was in Colombia for a series of screenings in the cities of Bogotá, Medellín and Cartagena de Indias. We did numerous television, radio and newspaper interviews and maybe due to all that media coverage of Ocean Acidification and the film we were invited to the only two environmental film […]
Artistic License
By Daniel de la Calle Creative work filters life, the natural world, history, words, even our ambiguous, volatile human emotions through the distorted prism of the artist’s senses. When done with genius this does the magic of shedding a certain light and revelation to that reality; it somehow touches us more profoundly and brings us […]
Brazil, Lessons in Coexistence and Incongruence
By Daniel de la Calle What you see below is Brazil: While going through some of the pictures I took here I was struck by the realization that exactly what makes this country so fascinating is what turns it so easy to hate, impossible not to love, so tricky to fully grasp. Everything happens together, […]
Blog Post Comments Worth Being Blog Posts
By Hilary, Colin and Daniel de la Calle On my last post I wrote about a University of Florida Research that might have solved “the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial period”, the answer being that it “ended up in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.” I […]
Books, Projects and PhDs
By Daniel de la Calle “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer ¤The European Union is launching this April a new three-year project called Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing climate (MedSeA). Its goal is to […]