4 ways the ocean can play a key role in healing the climate and rebuilding the economy --- While rising seas represent material threats to coastal communities, the ocean can, and should, be a big part of the solution — it can catapult us toward the Green New Deal’s vision of simultaneously improving our environment and economy, while reducing inequality.

‘Tectonically, this remote region is a patchwork. The Antarctic, Nazca and Pacific plates all converge here. Even better, four of modern history’s unaccountable terra-acoustical blasts have all eked from its depths.’

"Asako Narahashi’s series 'half awake and half asleep in the water,' at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York (July 17-August 22, 2008), shows Japan’s coastal areas as seen from the sea. Using a waterproof camera and watching the tide instead of the viewfinder, Narahashi captures a vision of Japan—and of the world—that is at once calming, eerie, enchanting, and unsettling. She is only occasionally swallowed by waves in the process. "

Beautiful, deadly.

"With enough time, tarps, and successive creature-eaters, our victory over un-nature is inevitable." The story of GMO gone horribly awry.

An excellent set of underwater photography capturing the quirky and beautiful.

"The newest creature was dubbed a 'microshark' by Jan War, operations manager at the natural energy lab. Scientists tentatively identified it as a deep-water catshark and said only two other specimens are known to exist."

"Wrist-slittingly depressing, yes, but there are glimmers of hope on the horizon."