Planet Ocean

PLANET OCEAN: Why We All Need A Healthy Ocean will take you and your kids and grandkids on a deep dive, with author Patricia Newman and photographer Annie Crawley, to visit the Coral Triangle near Indonesia, the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic Ocean at the top of the world.

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Stormwater runoff: A flood of crud

parking lot trash

Would we drink the water flowing along the sides of our roads and in our stormdrains? What’s in it anyway? Where does it go?

Laura James did a great job of highlighting these questions with some video showing some of West Seattle’s crud entering Puget Sound underwater.

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Recent Media Articles

Baseline, What Baseline?
OnceAndFuture Title Page

Preserving and restoring nature are key items on our global agenda. But it’s complicated. What do we preserve? What are the goal posts for our restoration efforts? J.B. MacKinnon takes a hard look at these issues and at getting one’s mind around nature in general. His 2013 book, The Once and Future World, is written

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Are Herring Runs Rebounding
Herring eggs

David Albright put together a very good short video about Spring 2023 herring spawning, including some underwater footage by our friend Laura James and some of the cultural connections.

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Importance of parasites

One of the things that caught my attention about this radio story was that it was aimed at broadening our notions of what an ecosystem is. While much of the media’s attention is still on the charismatic megafauna, other less obvious and less beloved elements are also of vital importance. When was the last time

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Future Ecologies
Future Ecologies podcast

A broad-spectrum collection of invitations to see your world in a new light – set to original music & immersive soundscapes, and weaving together interviews with expert knowledge holders.

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Dramatic Rescue
sea lion

The SeaDoc team sets out to save the life of a Steller sea lion suffering from a deadly plastic entanglement — 12 minute video.

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