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OCEAN 52

Lindsey Stanton’s article “Cape Cod’s Atlantis” explores the history of the vanishing island of Billingsgate.

Lindsey Stanton’s article “Cape Cod’s Atlantis” explores the history of the vanishing island of Billingsgate.

Editor’s Comments:

OCEAN 52 shares an extraordinary contrast, of how Cape Cod residents a hundred years ago experienced their island vanishing from beneath them and last month, a unique coalition of environmental groups, acted to save another island from development. We also began a new series on “Who We Are”, finding out who our Researchers are. My favorite article is about a humble group that found a way to make in-pavement driveway solar cells from used water bottles. This remarkable idea received our Environmental Innovation Award. OCEAN is the environmental education publication of Safe Harbor Environmental Services and is self- funded, with no advertising. We put this together for you, our readers, who are curious about local and large scale, environmental trends, anomalies and unusual events. This is a public domain publication and is yours to share. We begin with suggestions in our continuing series “Staying Safe”.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

OCEAN 52 Articles

Turning Up The Heat

Heatwaves In The Arctic Circle

OCEAN 2020 Innovation Award

Unwelcome Company

Dispatch From Alaska

Staying Safe (Part II)

Cape Cod’s Atlantis

Cape Cod Island Saved From Development

Breathing African Dust

What’s Going On With Victoria Falls?


OCEAN 37

The “Water-Seer”, a wind-powered collection system for drinking water, designed by VICI Labs

The “Water-Seer”, a wind-powered collection system for drinking water, designed by VICI Labs

Editor’s Comments:

Difficult problems inspire innovative solutions: “Wind Powered Drinking Water”, the recipient of the 2017 OCEAN Environmental Innovation Award is not what you may think. In our “can of worms department”, one of our lead Researchers has taken an educational look into recent changes in ocean Oxygen levels. As well as hot news from the Arctic; unraveling some of the mysteries of changing Bird migrations; and a continuing exploration of a new economic engine in our coastal economy: Sugar Kelp. A future issue explores Kelp beds reducing wave energy.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 37 Articles

Climate change & bird migrations

Sugar kelp potential as commercial crop

Heat wave in the Arctic

Climate change on Cape Cod

Pesticide use awareness

Are humans eating microplastics?

Wind-powered drinking water

Ocean oxygen depletion

Bolivian locusts destroy crops

Bicycle powered homes

Thousands of fracking spills


OCEAN 34

The California Sand Fire destroyed thousands of homes and acres of land this summer

The California Sand Fire destroyed thousands of homes and acres of land this summer

Editor’s comments:

OCEAN 34 celebrates 10 years of publishing OCEAN environmental e-newsletter. This is your newsletter and our success has only been possible through your support and sharing of each issue. Our main article on African Dust may seem an eccentric indulgence of research, until some surprising pieces begin falling together. Using foot power to do your laundry and generating electricity by flushing your toilet, showcase innovative energy developments. Water is a defining element in our World, especially when it vanishes and we take a closer look at two drought events: One contributed to the unprecedented CA wildfires and the other generated ecological stress in the Amazon.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 34 Articles

Amazon Carbon Sink

Hydroelectric power innovation

California Sand Fire

Foot-powered laundry

Unmanned aerial vehicles in wildlife research

Toxic Algae Blooms in Florida

Summer heat on Cape Cod

Traveling African dust