by Audrey Benedict | Jul 2, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #126: Glass in Nature (Part 1) Photo Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook. Artist’s impression of the collision of two protoplanets. BORN OF EARTH & FIRE Glass is born of earth and fire, and our modern world would be unrecognizable without this remarkable...
by Audrey Benedict | May 16, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #125: Sea Glass Lessons Photo Credit: Sea glass photograph courtesy of the North American Sea Glass Association (NASGA) and Jane Claire McHenry (sea glass from Islamorada in the Florida Keys). When I was growing up, collecting sea glass was a favorite beach...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 21, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #124: The Plastic Tsunami Photo Credit: Courtesy of Florida Sea Grant. THE PLASTIC TSUNAMI Sea turtles have spent the past 100 million years roaming seas free of plastics. Today, the global impacts of plastic pollution on marine biodiversity are among the...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 12, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #123: On Thin Ice! ON THIN ICE! When I need to recover my bearings as a science writer, I often circle back to my fascination with polar regions. Sea ice has been very much on my mind lately, and especially the prospect of an ice-free Arctic in the not so...
by Audrey Benedict | Mar 2, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #122: Fisheries Bycatch Photo Credit: Courtesy of NOAA. A juvenile loggerhead sea turtle escapes a trawler net that has been quipped with a Turtle Excluder Device (TED). These sea turtle “escape hatches” were originally developed to benefit both the...
by Audrey Benedict | Feb 17, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #121: Cold Stunning Photo Credit: Courtesy of Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald (MIGUEL ROBERTS AP) Thousands of Atlantic green sea turtles and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles suffering from cold stun are laid out to recover Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 at the...
