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We're ba-ack!..... Here's the 2008 report by NOAA: Climate of 2008 - in Historical Perspective ~ Annual Report See this report at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/ann/ann08.html All the latest statistics and trends for your reading pleasure.

That's fascinating, Dr. Stern. It would have to be confirmed under lab conditions, of course, to prove it's verity. However, I can think of a couple of possibilities how this phenomenon could cause the illusion of a pearl growing and emerging from another pearl. Both of these involve shrinkage...

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Boo. What a horrid debacle! Just the sludge alone, without taking it's chemical toxicity into account, will suffocate huge numbers of creatures in those watercourses. It's such a great disaster that any part of the...

A few years ago I started looking at jewelry in fashion magazines every couple of months--magazines like Vogue, W, Marie Claire etc. I found that they are far more out on the front lines of jewelry fashion than the Jewelry Industry periodicals, which tend to be reactionary (I don't mean...

This "gem" is cut from the shell of an abalone. The red color that you see is on the outside of a Red, Pink, Flat or similar abalone shell. They were fairly common at one time, usually set in silver, though I've seen a few in 10K gold.

I am so pleased that it arrived in a timely fashion and that you are pleased with it. Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad to read that you appreciate the ring of deep blue around the brown "island" center. It is something that I don't think I have run into on any other of my blister pearls. I...

Stunning! Just stunning! ...and the costumes and corsets are delightful as well.......

Oh--I quite agree! Something abalone and suggestively stimulating, I would think............ https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/natural-pearls/3246-ta-da-my-latest.html

On their site, the cuff bracelet with which they won the 2006 Town and Country Couture Award is set with what they label as "golden green natural Indonesion Keshi pearls.

Although I cannot say for sure without inspecting and, perhaps, taking one apart, I have a feeling that the way that the color of the pearl is influenced by the nucleus is by transmitted light reflecting off of the nucleus and back through the nacre. For this to be very pronounced, I think that...

Here's another .999 pure gold and keshi selection from Fairhaven Gold that I just put up on my site.

Awww shucks! Thanks so much for the kind words, everyone.

Ahem--Thank you and, uh, be my guest......

As promised long ago--a pendant that I have titled: "Strapless Gown, Plunging Neckline, with Freckles." Abalone Mabe' made from natural, wild-grown, blister-pearl, 45mm X 23mm (1.78 in. X .9 in.) and adorned with a .40 ct. ruby. This mabe' is as I found it and cut it from the shell. Even the...

Looks like "Leeta Leghorn--The Mad Christmas Chicken!" :D

I wonder if these ideas could be combined with the subject covered in the thread "The Green Pearl Activists" in the "Pearling Industry News" forum. From the reports I read in the scientific media, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing in this world more important to tackle than the...

Just a note to say that I'm having to go into high gear for the holidays, and since I'm a goldsmith, I'll have very little time to post here or on "Fixing Air" for a couple of weeks.

I don't think they know if it's invasive. I occurrs naturally in Bahia de California so it may be an extension of it's natural range. If you get to the same page again, then click on the link by the photo of the oak thats says "Monterey Bay's worst invasive species." Link...

Pteria Sterna, identified as the "Winged Oyster" native to the Gulf of California, has been found around the California Gulf Islands. See report at...

I have one suggestion for an organization that might be donated to for the purpose of fighting GW/OA, thanks to Blaire: It is Oceania. Read about it at: http://oceana.org/north-america/home/ There are two specific reasons, among others. that I like this group: 1) They are a science-based...