OCEAN 44

Innovators in Ghana create electricity from root vegetables

Editor’s Comments:

Our Ocean-Atmosphere environmental systems are not just linked to each other but connect all the plants and animals together in those systems. Some of our articles in OCEAN 44 confirm these relationships. Many of us in New England consider mussels the “Poor Man’s Oyster” but recent research in the UK is disturbing. Another article I did not want to read is Lauren Goodwin’s “wake up” article on plastics getting trapped in the stomachs of seabirds, contributing to their starvation. We are also sharing an “unable to sleep at night” article about the mysterious proliferation of lizards in Florida.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 44 Articles

Plastics causing starvation in seabirds

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Red tides in Florida

Hot rain

Rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine

Sunscreen harms coral reefs

Invasive rats infesting reefs

Space debris

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Eating invasive Green Crabs

Humans eating plastic from mussels

Electricity from root vegetables

OCEAN 43

Why do marine animals eat plastic? Check out article 11 to find out.

Editor’s Comments:

In OCEAN 43, we are proud to share a fascinating idea from the Himalayas and another, “Close to Home” innovative idea for long term coastal erosion management, a hybrid system of living shoreline and ballasted coir fiber. We also find it difficult to imagine Northwest Seafood being able to contain everything they are discovering in them (see Opioids in Northwest Mussels, page 6) and from OCEAN 41 “81 types of drugs and chemicals found in Puget Sound Salmon”). OCEAN 44 will link this article with the micro-plastics being found in Mussels. Plastics are not going away and according to OCEAN Researcher Brigid McKenna, (page 6) when consumed by sea birds, they tragically cannot be digested. Oh, and now, micro plastics have been discovered in our drinking water. (page 3).

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 43 Articles

Salmon in Washington

Contaminated drinking water

Gulf oil spill cleanup

Opioids in mussels

Hawaii protects coral reefs

Eating packaging

Dangerous VOC’s without airflow

Clean water: manmade glaciers

Herring River Estuary restoration

Seaweed as cow feed

Why marine animals eat plastic

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OCEAN 42

Oyster farmer on Martha’s Vineyard begins to farm kelp as a sustainable addition to his farm

Editor’s Comments:

In OCEAN 42, we recommend our “CLOSE TO HOME” article, as we continue to investigate the emerging, Regional, economic potential for Sugar Kelp farming. Along with OCEAN Research Coordinator Jess Hillman, we visited a working, Sugar Kelp farm on Martha’s Vineyard. We agreed it was a “fluke” that three ferry boats broke down that day (fortunately the sea farmers were patient). This issue also introduces our OCEAN 2018 Environmental Invention Award: Making electricity from raindrops. Also in this issue, while Palm Oil agriculture has been growing at 20% annually, no one it seems, has been minding the externalities, such as pesticides.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor.

Ocean 42 Articles

Drilling for energy causing radioactive rivers

Palm oil destroying forests

Flooding in Paris

Invasive flower in Iceland

Cape Town in South Africa running low on water

Preventing bird deaths on windows

Warming winters in Russia

Electricity from raindrops

Kelp added to oyster farm in Martha’s Vineyard

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OCEAN 41

Transparent solar panels developed at the University of Michigan may allow solar energy to be gathered from the sides of buildings

Editor’s Comments:

In our very large world, juvenile salmon in the Puget Sound are reminding us that we live in a closed system. Over 80 drugs and health care products have been found in their flesh; a sobering article by Rae Taylor-Burns. We also look at transparent solar cells; and a “Boots on the Ground” first person report from SoCal, where they thought wild fires were the worst of their problems. Coastal Communities share the same challenges and should be sharing solutions. Our article on Living Shorelines introduces a sustainable coastal erosion alternative.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

OCEAN 41 Articles

Warm seas turn Green Sea Turtles female

California wildfires

Drugs Found in Seattle Salmon

Antelopes mysteriously die-off

"iRecycle" APP

Climate Change Altering Arctic Food Chain

Shore Lines Protect U.S. Naval Bases

 Microbeads Banned in U.K.

 Transpartent Solar Panels

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OCEAN 40

In New York City, the roof of the old Brooklyn Naval Base has been turned into two and a half acres of green rooftop farms

Editor’s Comments:

Our first issue of OCEAN was published in 2006. This 40th issue begins our 12th year of maintaining our core values of creating an advertising free, educational platform for environmental issues. OCEAN 40 investigates an inspirational, multi-acre, “Organic Farm In The Sky”, on huge rooftops in Brooklyn N.Y. We take a new look at defining the term “Bad Egg”. We also explore recent meso-scale firestorm and hurricane events, which will directly and indirectly, impact our lives. And cold shocked FL has had to endure the specter of lizards falling out of trees.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 40 Articles

“Living” shorelines on Martha’s Vinyard

Severe storm in Poland

Salt marsh restoration on Cape Cod

Green roof farms in NYC

Hurricane Harvey & Irma

Air freshener chemicals cause explosion

Insecticide in eggs

California wildfires

Abnormal freeze destroys peach crop in Georgia

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