Searching for Cousteau

Tim Studt Editor in Chief

I often wonder what Jacques Cousteau would say about the state of affairs of the world's oceans. What would he think about the floating islands of plastic garbage in the Pacific twice the size of Texas, or about rapid ocean acidification linked to increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, or about changing ocean currents because of melting icecaps and glaciers, or about BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? ...continue