Economies don’t equilibrate and nature doesn’t balance. Both are concepts imposed on natural systems that are in reality constantly pushed around by climate and entrepreneurial activity. This matters for speech and debate students because...
Alone in the animal world, tunicates produce cellulose, plus produce omega-3 fatty acids. Tunicates are described as the “yellowish, slimy growth that many of us have come across on ropes that have lain in...
In a big country like Brazil, it makes sense for fish farmers to choose a big fish. The Tambaqui is that fish, and “averages about 3 feet in length (1 meter) and adult specimens...
Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the worlds fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management. “The majority...
Global warming is expected by many to further endanger Green Sea Turtles. But until then, unusual cooling is endangering sea turtles, according to this 2010 article in the SunSentinel When the temperature drops very quickly...
Marine ecosystems and coastal areas around the world have been and are being transformed as U.S. shrimp imports from Asia surge. This is part of a broader expansion of “farming the sea.” According to...
Imagine an environmental conference bringing together leading environmental lawyers and scholars from across the political spectrum. In some cases those attending were the same scholars who as graduate students and activists helped pass major...
Conflicts over living resources arise mainly from the question of use versus preservation: use meaning harvesting a resource as needed by people; preservation meaning leaving nature alone so that people can’t have negative effects...
What if you could help restore the health of America’s coastal bays and estuaries at the dinner table? Concerns about non-point source pollution focus on fertilizers and other nutrients washed off lawns, gardens...
“Water Plant’s Long Journey” in the June 21 Wall Street Journal reports on a twenty years delayed Carlsbad, California desalination facility. For debaters researching marine natural resources, it should be no surprise that the most...
