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The Constitution, Climate Change, and What Just Happened in Cuba
Ocean Doctor president, Dr. David E. Guggenheim, provides an end-of-the-year 2018 update on our work in Cuba, now in its 19th year, and why Cuba is so critical in a global race to save coral reefs in the Caribbean. Our work is urgent, difficult and important and we need your help. Please consider joining our efforts and supporting our work with your donation. Our warmest wishes to you and yours for a joyous and peaceful Holiday Season!
VIDEO: Half the Caribbean’s Coral Reefs Have Died. Join Our Fight to Bring Them Back
Ocean Doctor president, Dr. David E. Guggenheim, provides an end-of-the-year 2018 update on our work in Cuba, now in its 19th year, and why Cuba is so critical in a global race to save coral reefs in the Caribbean. Our work is urgent, difficult and important and we need your help. Please consider joining our efforts and supporting our work with your donation. Our warmest wishes to you and yours for a joyous and peaceful Holiday Season!
What Becomes of Cuba After the Embargo is Lifted?
A Critically Endangered Goliath Grouper greets a tourist photographer in Cuba’s Gardens of the Queen National Park. Environmental economics demonstrated that conservation and ecotourism would result in more revenue than commercial fishing. (Photo: David E. Guggenheim)
When a foreigner sets foot in Cuba, it immediately becomes clear that this magical island is profoundly unique and has developed drastically differently than any other country in Latin America and the Caribbean. And for those who venture into its verdant mountains or below its aquamarine waves, a striking revelation awaits: Just as the fifties-era Chevys and horse-drawn buggies portray an island seemingly frozen in time, so, too, do its exceptionally healthy and vibrant ecosystems illustrate that Cuba may have picked the perfect time in history not to follow the path of its neighbors. Indeed the past half century has seen a tragic and unprecedented decline in Caribbean coastal and marine ecosystems.
Read the full post at EcoWatch.com
Where’s the Oil Now? What’s the Gulf Worth? The Tough Questions, Answered
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February 7, 2011: We tap into the best and brightest at the National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment in Washington, DC to get answers to the tough questions. An interview with Dr. David Yoskowitz, Chair of Socioeconomics at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, with jaw-dropping statistics on what the Gulf is worth. What we all assumed about dispersants that may be all wrong. And we follow the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling as it goes before Congress.
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