It is a bittersweet scene - a lifeless sea lion laying on the seabed while starfish feast on its remains. The starfish, however, are turning the mammal into nutrients for the marine food web.
Over a decade ago I traveled around Sweden to view its forestry practices – the country has a gigantic forest products industry that largely transforms trees into paper products and biomass pellets for electricity generation – yet the national forestry agency claimed it to be the most sustainable forestry program in the world. What I […]