Underwater Art Installation
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor is a former scuba instructor who’s found a novel way to reduce tourists’ footprints on Caribbean coral reefs: create a new reef. Using marine-grade cement designed to foster coral growth, deCaires Taylor sculpted more than 400 life-size human figures and submerged them 30 feet underwater. The sculpture installation—strategically located near the […]
Blanket Statement
Fort Makers was founded by good friends Naomi Clark, Nana Spears and Noah James Spencer. “Our name is about making forts, as kids do, and also as adults do. For instance, small colonial American forts are an inspiration as well,” says Spears of the creative collaboration. “Any small group of people (tribes, forts, etc.) are […]
Tim DeChristopher Sentencing
Tim DeChristopher, who was convicted by a federal jury in Salt Lake City on March 3, 2011, will be sentenced today. The Utah environmental activist who disrupted a federal auction when he bought almost $1.8 million of oil and gas leases (with no intent to pay) in 2008, was found guilty of disrupting a government […]
Feasts in the Fields
For more than a decade, Jim Denevan—artist, chef and surfer—has staged amazing outdoor dinners with his roving culinary adventure, Outstanding in the Field.
State of the Ocean
A high-level international workshop convened by IPSO met at the University of Oxford earlier this year. It was the first inter-disciplinary international meeting of marine scientists of its kind and was designed to consider the cumulative impact of multiple stressors on the ocean, including warming, acidification, and overfishing. The 27 participants from 18 organisations in […]
