Steinberg: Newport’s Line

From the 1950s to last week, Nancy Steinberg reels out the story of Oregon State University’s oceanography program. Nearly everything known about the flora and fauna of Oregon’s coastal ocean comes from 60 years of samples taken along a specific route by...

Ocean Acidification and the Media

Eric Swenson, communications and outreach director for the Global Ocean Health Program, discussed media coverage of ocean acidification with NSWA members and guests on Dec. 11 at University House. The program opened with a short scientific explanation of...

Scigliano: Global Warming’s Evil Twin

We thought we’d heard the last of acid rain, but a story by Eric Scigliano at OnEarth.org is a reminder of that environmental plague of the 1970s. Fossil fuel consumption increases CO2 in the atmosphere, causing global climate change. But it also forces CO2 into our...