Carl Safina

By Carl Safina Don’t believe the globe is warming? Fine. Whatever. Here’s one thing everyone agrees on: the fact that oil spills. Even without global warming—even if global warming is a hoax—we must, finally, eventually, kick the carbon-energy addiction. The fact that oil spills is among those reasons. As if New Orleans doesn’t have enough [...]

A New Foundation to Help Conservation and Development on an African Island in the Indian Ocean By Carl Safina Television documentary producer John Angier and I not long ago visited an island off the coast of Tanzania called Pemba. We were filming a pilot for a possible television series called Saving the Ocean. We went [...]

The following OpEd by Carl Safina appeared in Newsday on January 14, 2010: Newsday (New York) January 14, 2010 Taking too much out; putting too much in; That’s the classic problem with how we treat our oceans; a unified policy will help BYLINE: BY CARL SAFINA. Carl Safina, author of several books on the ocean, [...]

Reality: The atmosphere is as thin as shellac on the globe. Where does all the exhaust go? Into that thin, thin layer. We measure carbon dioxide from the exhaust, and find it climbing every year. Physicists have learned that it traps heat. We measure the temperatures worldwide and find them warming. If we’re wrong about [...]

Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story about the Western Pacific nation of Palau, who announced today at the United Nations its ban of shark fishing. Carl Safina reflects on how shark populations have plummeted over the years and that Palau is making groundbreaking efforts to reverse this tragic trend: I and everyone I’ve ever [...]

The following video and text originally appeared on filmmaker David Conover’s blog http://www.beholdtheearth.com/blog/1104/carl-safina-matters-of-morality/.  Simply noticing and recording the disturbing trends of a degraded world is a virtue of science and all those practicing it. The process reveals a lot of information about the world around us. But information alone is not enough to mobilize action [...]

Some people say conservation and energy policy are “no fun.” Look at the below and ask how much fun is the lack of conservation and the inadequacy of world energy policy. No fun? We ain’t seen nothin’ yet. http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0907/full/climate.2009.57.html “… The latest research indicates substantial risk to calcifying organisms at atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 450 [...]

Ahoy, On July 11, 2008, about 100 participants arrived in Svalbard in the high Norwegian arctic and boarded the Lindblad Expeditions ship National Geographic Endeavor for a Climate Action Summit.  We came to take ourselves out of the daily rhythm of our lives and work, to experience the spare and elemental place near the top of [...]

I’ve just returned from perhaps the most unusual trip of my life. I was part of a small delegation of scientists and leading Christian evangelicals traveling to Alaska to gain, together, first-hand looks at the ongoing effects and implications of climate change (see footnotes for more background on how these people of faith and science [...]