Cut Your Travel-related Food Waste

A third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, creating a yearly global carbon footprint larger than most countries. Some simple ways to reduce food waste on dive trips, cruises, and other travel. 

Paying Texas landowners to protect carbon stored in soil

Natural climate solutions – a variety of conservation, restoration and improved land management actions to increase carbon storage or avoid its emission – could provide more than a third of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030 to stabilize warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. One organization, the Texas Coastal Exchange, pays landowners to increase or protect carbon stored in their lands. Read more here. 

The wild films of Ben Masters

From bighorn sheep to ocelots and the Rio Grande, Austin-based filmmaker Ben Masters uses films to promote conservation. Read my interview with Masters in Texas Highways. 

Fascinating Jellyfish

 From their multiple-stage life cycles to their long history across the breadth and depth of the world’s seas, jellyfish may have something to tell us about the changing health of the oceans. Read more in this piece from the Spring 2018 issue of Alert Diver. 

Mangroves in Peril

 Earth has lost as much as 35 percent of its mangrove forests in the past few decades, and scientists predict that these vital ecosystems could all but disappear in the next 100 years. Read more about the problem here. 

Four critical habitats that nurture marine life

 A wide variety of ocean creatures rely on sea grass, sand, Sargassum and mangroves. Each of these habitats faces serious threats. Read more here. 

Sea turtles hard hit by Texas winter storms

The Arctic air mass that battered Texas starting around Valentine's Day reached the Gulf of Mexico, creating conditions that left thousands of sea turtles cold stunned. As of Wed. Feb. 17, rescue organizations had recovered more than 4,000 of them along the Texas coast. Read more here.