The oceans have absorbed a third of all the carbon dioxide emitted since the Industrial Revolution and have helped deflect extreme warming. But recent research has shown that climate change has made seawater acidity rise faster than at any time in the last 55 million years, with unpredictable and potentially disastrous consequences for life. What can we do?
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Your Neptune 911 posts will be slack for the next 9 weeks. I’m up to my ears in the final assembly of a non profit fundraiser for a marine environmental educational group, Friends of the Elephant Seal. Check out what… Read More ›
“Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of our Wild Ocean”
Whitty draws freely on historical and mythological sources to portray the power of the oceans in human culture. She finds inspiration in Hindu literature’s Mahabharata, India’s Rig Veda, the Greek pantheon, Norse mythology, and the cave art of Baja California.