The following op-ed by Carl Safina appeared on CNN.com July 28, 2010
Editor’s note: Carl Safina writes about how the ocean is changing and what it means for wildlife and for people. A MacArthur fellow, Pew fellow and Guggenheim fellow, he is adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and president of Blue Ocean Institute. His next [...]
Text and photos by Carl Safina – click here to view photo gallery.
You’d think that, with an ongoing environmental disaster caused by a foreign corporation, the U.S. government would be OK with letting the public see what’s going on. Land of the free, right?
Well, not necessarily.
Among the latest and most enraging developments in the ongoing [...]
July 4th. Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Two-hundred-and-thirty-four years ago, The United States won its independence from, guess who: the British.
Not so fast. At the end of the road is a public park clearly marked “OPEN.” It’s noon when I approach what looks like a little temporary trailer-style guard station at the entrance.
A young guy with a clipboard [...]
Guest blog by Stephen Dishart, Executive Director, Blue Ocean Institute
To view Carl’s TEDx Oil Spill lecture click here.
Safina points to gross negligence as the cause of the spill
With a remarkable agenda of speakers, the hottest topic on the planet and a crowd of environmental experts and others eager for the latest word on the Gulf [...]
Text and photos by Carl Safina – click here to view photo gallery.
After flying to the site of the blowout, I drove to Grand Isle, Louisiana. Everywhere across the extensive marshes, in any sweep of view, tools of the oil industry pierced the skyline.
Oil has hit heavily here.
And the residents are not happy.
Who can blame [...]
