For past debate topics on environmental issues, I have shown students data on the steady reductions in air, water, and land pollution across the United States. Pollution discharges into America’s rivers, lakes, streams, and...
For the new NCFCA policy topic (“Resolved: That federal election law should be significantly reformed in the United States), students should step back and reflect on the role of elections. Edmund Opitz at Foundation...
Royal Dutch Shell has spent billions of dollars over six years preparing to drill for new oil in Alaska. Some twenty-five billion barrels of oil are estimated to be deep under the Beaufort and...
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...
