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Spring 2009

The Oceans Issue
volume 24 no. 1

Journal

Down in the Depths

Feedback

Local News from All Over

Notes from a Warming World

Hawai‘ians Say Ferry Too Fast to Pass

by Gar Smith

Earth Island Project Reports

Francis Macy

Eco-Equity

Climate Change’s Public Secrets

For Peak’s Sake

Honoring David Brower

Altai Project

Fatal Crash Exposes Russia’s Guilty Secret

International Marine Mammal Project

Award-Winning Film Uncovers Dolphin Slaughter

Net Benefits

A Cap and Trade on Their Catch Turns Fishermen into Conservationists

by Elaine Miller Bond

Living Fossils

Climate Change Threatens to Dissolve the Ocean’s Deep-Water Corals

by Elizabeth Grossman

Lost and Found

Australian Artist John Dahlsen

Beautiful, but Deadly

Jellyfish Blooms Appear to be on the Rise. Is Global Warming Causing an Ocean Swarming?

by Jeffrey Marlow

Fishing for Trust

Does It Take a Certain Kind of Personality to Craft Public Policy?

by Jason Mark

Captain Charles Moore

…Talks Trash

Stormy Seas

Ocean Power Promoters Struggle to Overcome a Stiff Current of Challenges

by Larissa Curlik

Watch What You Eat

The US Government Continues to Lag When it Comes to Warning People about the Risks of Mercury-Laden Fish.

by Audrey Webb

Burning the Future: Coal in America

Directed by David Novack, 89 minutes

The Great Delusion

by Steven Stoll
224 pages, Hill and Wang, 2008

Coming Clean

by Michael Brune
256 pages, Sierra Club Books, 2008

Where Our Food Comes From

Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine
By Gary Paul Nabhan; 266 pages, Shearwater Books, 2008

Punk Runner Punked

by Andrew Brooks

Paltry Predictions

Why Have Some of the World’s Best and Brightest Minds Underestimated How Quickly We’re Scorching the Atmosphere?

by Elizabeth Grossman

Burning to Get Bigger

US Oil Refineries Are Expanding so They Can Process Petroleum from Canadian Tar Sands

by Michael Moreci