Wednesday March 3, 2010

big river, big dead zone

What happens when loads of nitrogen from chemical fertilizers get washed from commodity crop farms down the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico? A big fat dead zone is what happens. A dead zone roughly

Categories: blog environment food/drink movies Tags: agriculture oceans wildlife

Monday April 6, 2009

another reason for l.o.v.e.

[Image via Top Veg]

Yesterday, I mentioned some of the reasons why I’m doing this raw, vegan fast, but I left out a pretty big one. It has to do with dietary awareness and the effects our

Categories: blog environment food/drink health Tags: animals eating oceans organic pollution raw food vegan water

Thursday April 2, 2009

expensive flotsam and jestam

[Image: Brett Flashnick for The New York Times]

When I heard about this problem it really irked me. People who bought boats in boom time and can no longer afford them are abandoning them. They remove all

Categories: blog environment recycling Tags: money oceans pollution

Wednesday February 25, 2009

is this fish for real?

I’m going to let this video speak for itself. This fish is pretty freakin’ wild.

Read more about Macropinna microstoma (aka, Barreleye) at PopSci.

Categories: blog environment Tags: animals oceans