Last P.J. Blaize, a charter boat Captain, took a videographer from Voice of America TV and I out into the wetlands and near-shore waters of Louisiana, east of the Mississippi. We traveled through freshwater wetlands, salt water wetlands, and traveled out to some interior barrier islands, where hundreds of birds were nesting. It was amazing […]
After our boat trip this past Sunday I had an opportunity to interview Carl Safina of the Blue Ocean Institute Take it with you – download for your iPod
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Check out this CNN video, featuring GRN’s Campaign Director Aaron Viles, discussing BP’s refusal to release most footage of the oil leak on the ocean floor. Raleigh Hoke is GRN’s Mississippi Organizer
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Guest Blog by Tim Ohr one of Florida’s leading nature writers.Strolling by the Hillsborough River on a lovely spring morning in 2010, I noticed a smell reminiscent of lacquer thinner. My first thought was that there was something in the river, but the same odor persisted in the oak and pinewoods far away where I
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Jeffrey Dubinsky, our photographer for the boat trip yesterday has posted the rest of his photos for your viewing pleasure or displeasure as the case maybe the photos are in the slide show are below.Thanks Jeffrey, great job!
This video accompanies my previous post – ‘Birds In The Crosshairs: GRN Finds Oil In Refuge’ Download to iPod
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This morning I travelled once again down to Venice, Louisiana and met Captain Keith Kennedy of ” Born to Fish Charters’. With me were GRN member and activist, Jo Billups, Carl Safina, President of the Blue Ocean Institute, and GRN photographer Jeffrey Dubinsky. We embarked from Cypress Cove Marina at about 9 AM and set
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For migrating sea turtles, the BP oil drilling disaster could not have come at a worse time. Five of the seven species of sea turtles call the Gulf of Mexico home, including the endangered Kemp’s Ridley. Every year adult Ridleys migrate from around the Gulf to the sandy beaches of south Texas and northern Mexico.
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Over the past couple of days, I have gotten several questions about dispersants that are being used to combat the ever-growing oil slick in the Gulf: What do dispersants do? Are they effective? Are they toxic? What happens to the oil? I will be the first to admit that I cannot come close to answering
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