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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Sep 19

If Trump executing people on the high seas strikes you as odd - here's my take on it in The Hill - thehill.com/opinion/nati...

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act www.commondreams.org/opinion/defe...

Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act | Common Dreams

Kirsten Donald, a marine biologist, educator, and advocate with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, explains why the animals she works with need more protections, not fewer.

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Aug 15

The War Against the Greens - Stronger than Ever
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The War Against the Greens - Stronger than Ever

Listen now | Navigating the New Wilderness: Insights into Modern Environmental Challenges

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Trump's Big New Law Is a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

Trump's Big New Law Is a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea | Common Dreams

A policy expert explains why the budget reconciliation bill will harm the ocean and attempts to protect and understand it.

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Trump’s Big New Law is an Ocean disaster

Not so beautiful for our public seas says policy expert George Leonard

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Putting the protection in Marine Protected Areas

Meaghan Brosnan – Ocean Sheriff - Blue Frontier

Protecting Wildlife, Enforcing Change: A Global Dive with WildAid’s Meaghan Brosnan In the latest episode David & Vicki talk with Wildaid CEO Meaghan Brosnan who, when it comes to marine wildlife and ...

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Jun 30

Over 10 million will lose their Medicaid so 1,000 billionaires can pay even less taxes. What a populist!

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Jun 30

In our latest Rising Tide podcast we talk with Mike Sutton and Lindsay Gordon who attended the UN Ocean Conference in Nice France June 9-13 since it got so little coverage in the U.S. bluefront.org/podcast/the-...

The UN’s Ocean Conference - Blue Frontier

In the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, David & Vicki bring you some of the news that other media may not have. Earlier in June there was a United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, Fr...

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · May 13

One more shot of winners and organizers of this year's Peter Benchley Ocean Awards. That's John Racanelli CEO of the National Aquarium next to me. So many good folks.

helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · May 9

aThe Peter Benchley Ocean Awards are back. Great evening at the National Aquarium. Here I am with 4 ocean champions: Jane Lubchenco, Sylvia Earle, Wendy Benchley and Mary Munk. Glad to have started something that lives on when we need it most.

helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Apr 18

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250 Years Later - Concord, Lexington and our Would-be King

We started something 50 years ago that we need to expand today

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Apr 7

Craig McLean and the Fight to Save NOAA is now live on our Rising Tide Ocean Podcast. Please check it out because facts, truth and science still matter. bluefront.org/.../craig-mc...

Craig McLean & The Fight To Save NOAA - Blue Frontier

In the latest episode of the award-winning Rising Tide: the Ocean Podcast David and Vicki talk with retired NOAA Captain Craig McLean about the Trump administration’s attacks on the National Oceanogra...

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Apr 2

Monday on Rising Tide Ocean Podcast we'll interview Craig McLean - the former Chief Scientist at NOAA who stood up for scientific integrity in the first Trump administration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWj...

Rising Tide # 132 Craig McLean and the fight to save NOAA Drops 4/ 7/25

YouTube video by Ocean Beach Living

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 24

And my latest report:
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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 23

My cover story in Smithsonian's American Indian Magazine winter issue is now online for anyone to read. Feel free:
www.americanindianmagazine.org

helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 23

What borders on Insanity? Canada and Mexico

helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 23

Norooz, the Persian Spring equinox celebration has come to my neighborhood park.

helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 11

What borders on Insanity? Canada and Mexico.

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 11

Even if it doesn't make sense it's what's happening.
My opinion in today's LA Times.

Contributor: In Trump's war on NOAA, the losers will be Americans and the economy

Without an outcry from fishermen, scientists and anyone who needs an accurate weather forecast, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration seems doomed.

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 8

Is It Happening Here? www.commondreams.org/opinion/fasc...

Is It Happening Here? | Common Dreams

Two generations of family history has convinced me that a deeply divided Weimer-like democracy can be destroyed from the inside out, even one that has been expanding its franchise of freedom for more ...

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 7

Coming Monday on Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast!

From the Vents to the Arctic: Kathy Crane’s Ocean Explorations

YouTube video by Ocean Beach Living

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Mar 1

I marched and spoke at the Rosie the Riveter National Park Visitors Center today in Richmond CA as did 1000s of other citizens at National Park sites across the nation.

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Feb 26

My Substack newsletter version of my interview with Alaska Alaska Journalist Nat Herz. davidhelvarg.substack.com/publish/post...

helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our latest Rising Tide Ocean Podcast we talk with Alaska independent journalist Nat Herz - bluefront.org/podcast/nat-...?

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helvarg.bsky.social @helvarg.bsky.social · Feb 22

And our 2025 Peter Benchley Ocean Award winners - to be presented at the National Aquarium in Baltimore May 8th.

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