marine ecosystem Archives

Growing Coral to Restore the World’s Reefs with Sam Teicher

June 25, 2020 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

Coral Vita’s Sam Teicher discusses the urgent status of the world’s coral reefs and how we can restore them by rapidly and effectively growing climate-change resilient coral. The world’s first land-based coral farm, Coral Vita, aims to help scale up reef restoration globally using breakthrough technologies and nature-based solutions, including micro-fragmentation and assisted evolution. Learn about the critical role coral plays in marine ecosystems and how restoring it is essential to our collective future. Current and recent, unprecedented mass bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef, highlights the importance of taking urgent action on behalf of our oceans and reefs worldwide. Act now while there is still time to turn the tide!

Oceans, Wildlife

Disappearing Cod: Sustainable Populations Require Long-Term Action

January 2, 2015 by The Outpost 5 comments

The NOAA is shutting down cod fishing for six months, from Provincetown, Mass., up to the Canadian border, in an effort to reverse plummeting numbers of the iconic fish in the Gulf of Maine. Jeffery Bolster argues humans have depredated the Atlantic’s fish stocks for centuries, and the focus on short-term fixes only compounds the problem.

Oceans

Planet Ocean: Envisioning Land and Seas as One Ecosystem

October 5, 2014 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

“Planet Ocean” — explores how the health of the oceans are the pivot for all of Earth’s healthy ecosystems. This international documentary, directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot, wonders whether it is possible for Earth’s dominant inhabitants to change the way we view our oceans.

Deepwater Horizon, oil spill, Gulf of Mexico

Energy

“The Great Invisible” Surveys Deepwater Horizon’s Impacts

March 17, 2014 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

“The Great Invisible,” the winning documentary at the South By Southwest film festival, tracks how everyone from wealthy oilmen to impoverished fishermen were affected in the Deepwater Horizon aftermath, the Transocean-owned, BP-operated oil drilling rig, that exploded 50 miles off the Louisiana coast on April 20, 2010.

Oceans

Sylvia Earle: Ocean Ecosystem Sustainability By 2050

December 9, 2013 by The Outpost 2 comments

Humans are consuming the ocean’s resources at an alarming rate. How do we sustain this vital ecosystem for generations to come? National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle outlines some of the ways to protect the health of the earth’s biggest ecosystem.

coastal pollution, surfing, Jerry Collamer, ocean pollution

Oceans

Marine Ecosystems Facing Unprecedented Human Damage

October 3, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

The health of the world’s oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously been thought, a report warns. “We are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change. The next mass extinction may have already begun.”

Captain Paul Watson, sharks, conservation, Pacific Ocean

Oceans, Wildlife

Sharkwater: Sea Shepherd Battles Shark-fin Poachers in the Pacific

July 15, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

Rob Stewart’s beautifully shot documentary “Sharkwater,” set in the Galapagos and Isla del Coco of the Pacific Ocean, refutes those who vilify the shark as a killer of humans, insisting they do not wish to eat us. He also films Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson’s attack on the Costa Rican shark fin poachers, which has led to international charges for the famous defender of the sea.

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