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If Trump executing people on the high seas strikes you as odd - here's my take on it in The Hill - thehill.com/opinion/nati...

19.09.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act | Common Dreams Kirsten Donald, a marine biologist, educator, and advocate with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, explains why the animals she works with need more protections, not fewer.

Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act www.commondreams.org/opinion/defe...

31.08.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The War Against the Greens - Stronger than Ever Listen now | Navigating the New Wilderness: Insights into Modern Environmental Challenges

The War Against the Greens - Stronger than Ever
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15.08.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's Big New Law Is a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea | Common Dreams A policy expert explains why the budget reconciliation bill will harm the ocean and attempts to protect and understand it.

Trump's Big New Law Is a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

01.08.2025 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Big New Law is an Ocean disaster Not so beautiful for our public seas says policy expert George Leonard

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30.07.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meaghan Brosnan – Ocean Sheriff - Blue Frontier Protecting Wildlife, Enforcing Change: A Global Dive with WildAid’s Meaghan Brosnan In the latest episode David & Vicki talk with Wildaid CEO Meaghan Brosnan who, when it comes to marine wildlife and ...

Putting the protection in Marine Protected Areas

14.07.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Over 10 million will lose their Medicaid so 1,000 billionaires can pay even less taxes. What a populist!

30.06.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The UN’s Ocean Conference - Blue Frontier In the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, David & Vicki bring you some of the news that other media may not have.Β Earlier in June there was a United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, Fr...

In our latest Rising Tide podcast we talk with Mike Sutton and Lindsay Gordon who attended the UN Ocean Conference in Nice France June 9-13 since it got so little coverage in the U.S. bluefront.org/podcast/the-...

30.06.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One more shot of winners and organizers of this year's Peter Benchley Ocean Awards. That's John Racanelli CEO of the National Aquarium next to me. So many good folks.

13.05.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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aThe Peter Benchley Ocean Awards are back. Great evening at the National Aquarium. Here I am with 4 ocean champions: Jane Lubchenco, Sylvia Earle, Wendy Benchley and Mary Munk. Glad to have started something that lives on when we need it most.

09.05.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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250 Years Later - Concord, Lexington and our Would-be King We started something 50 years ago that we need to expand today

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Craig McLean & The Fight To Save NOAA - Blue Frontier In the latest episode of the award-winning Rising Tide: the Ocean Podcast David and Vicki talk with retired NOAA Captain Craig McLean about the Trump administration’s attacks on the National Oceanogra...

Craig McLean and the Fight to Save NOAA is now live on our Rising Tide Ocean Podcast. Please check it out because facts, truth and science still matter. bluefront.org/.../craig-mc...

07.04.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Rising Tide  # 132 Craig McLean and the fight to save NOAA  Drops 4/ 7/25
YouTube video by Ocean Beach Living Rising Tide # 132 Craig McLean and the fight to save NOAA Drops 4/ 7/25

Monday on Rising Tide Ocean Podcast we'll interview Craig McLean - the former Chief Scientist at NOAA who stood up for scientific integrity in the first Trump administration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWj...

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And my latest report:
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24.03.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My cover story in Smithsonian's American Indian Magazine winter issue is now online for anyone to read. Feel free:
www.americanindianmagazine.org

23.03.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What borders on Insanity? Canada and Mexico

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Norooz, the Persian Spring equinox celebration has come to my neighborhood park.

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What borders on Insanity? Canada and Mexico.

11.03.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Contributor: In Trump's war on NOAA, the losers will be Americans and the economy Without an outcry from fishermen, scientists and anyone who needs an accurate weather forecast, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration seems doomed.

Even if it doesn't make sense it's what's happening.
My opinion in today's LA Times.

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Is It Happening Here? | Common Dreams Two generations of family history has convinced me that a deeply divided Weimer-like democracy can be destroyed from the inside out, even one that has been expanding its franchise of freedom for more ...

Is It Happening Here? www.commondreams.org/opinion/fasc...

08.03.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
From the Vents to the Arctic: Kathy Crane’s Ocean Explorations
YouTube video by Ocean Beach Living From the Vents to the Arctic: Kathy Crane’s Ocean Explorations

Coming Monday on Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast!

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I marched and spoke at the Rosie the Riveter National Park Visitors Center today in Richmond CA as did 1000s of other citizens at National Park sites across the nation.

01.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Substack newsletter version of my interview with Alaska Alaska Journalist Nat Herz. davidhelvarg.substack.com/publish/post...

26.02.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our latest Rising Tide Ocean Podcast we talk with Alaska independent journalist Nat Herz - bluefront.org/podcast/nat-...?

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And our 2025 Peter Benchley Ocean Award winners - to be presented at the National Aquarium in Baltimore May 8th.

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Nat Herz’s Northern Beat     Rising Tide 129 Video Promo
YouTube video by Ocean Beach Living Nat Herz’s Northern Beat Rising Tide 129 Video Promo

Promo for my Monday Rising Tide Ocean Podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzHb...

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The Help the Kelp Act is back in play in Congress. Does bipartisan support for common sense still work?

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13.02.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not every reef get's its own report card. But the Mesoamerican Reef recently did. Check out our conversation with Melanie McField of Healthy Reefs for Healthy People on our Rising Tide Ocean Podcast bluefront.org/.../melanie-...

10.02.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My house after today's Bay Area storms.

05.02.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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