But we overfished these species to the point that it now takes more work, more energy, more equipment, more money to catch the same amount of fish — roughly 85 million tons a year, a yield that has remained mostly stagnant for the last decade after rapid growth and despite increasing demand.

Still, plenty of scientists say a turnaround is possible. Studies have found that even declining species can quickly recover if fisheries are managed well. It would help if the world’s wealthiest fish-eaters (they include us, folks) would broaden their appetites. Mackerel, anyone?

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Hundreds of climbers flock to the world's tallest peak at 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) every year, with many simply squatting in the open or hunching behind rocks as the Everest base camp has no proper toilet facilities.

Dawa Steven Sherpa, who led an eco-Everest expedition in May to collect trash dumped by previous climbers, said his team used a plastic bucket as well as a gas-impervious bag designed to safely contain and neutralize human waste and keep in odor.

Well, it's a start.  So, instead of giving you a picture of poo, I'll make you happy and put up scantily clad women with no relevance to the article.  climb_ca will of course say, 'dood, the advertisers, the advertisers...'

"Too much faith in cheap foam is a prescription for disaster. Better to think of a helmet as a nice hat than something that will save you."

"Perhaps we could stand side-by-side, me wearing my supposedly carbon-added foam helmet with a cool plastic shell, you with just your ski hat, and allow one strike of a hammer each to our noggin. I wonder how my pretty helmet would stand up compared to your ski hat?"

"That cushy padded seat on your bike is a fitness hinderance, preventing the toned legs Lance Armstrong would envy, and keeping your back unnaturally aligned. The TAURUS bike eschews the seat for a unique cab forward design."

When most people find out I am a climber, they eventually get around to asking the question "so how did you get into climbing?" Before I get much farther, I should probably define climbing and what, in my mind, it means to be a climber. Climbing to me takes many forms and is practiced in many places, on a variety of mediums. Small boulders to alpine faces; city gyms to exotic crags. One of the reasons I love climbing so much is the incredible diversity of the sport.

Based on informal observation over the twelve years I have been actively involved in and aware of the climbing community, I would say that areas of specialization within climbing have become more separate and even polarized within the community. I will attempt to not let my personal preference for climbing pursuits skew my thoughts, although I should warn you, I am an alpinist and a mountaineer at heart. I suspect I always have been (it just took a while to figure it out) and always will be.

By locating the wreckage, Kuhles has provided answers and mementos to the families of scores of missing American servicemen. "In 65 years, there has been no effort to investigate the sites of these crashes. So many lives were just written off and forgotten as if the men went into a black hole," he said. "The family members want answers till this day. They want closure. And that is what I provide."

Winner of the 2008 Mountaineering History Prize, given by the Banff Mountain Book Festival.

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.

REHYDRATE is designed to give canines a more effective hydration system than drinking plain water. The effervescent tablet that dissolves in water is formulated to replenish any lost electrolytes (i.e. sodium, chloride, potassium, etc.) due to aerobic activity.

Back in 1997, over a cup of tea at Yak and Yeti hotel, we had a debate with famous mountaineering chronologist Liz Hawley about the definition of solo.

Readers Digest had just called, to fact check a 1996 Everest solo claim and Liz was pretty impatient with their inquiry; the climber in question had used fixed ropes, climbed with a Sherpa and had the company of some 200 people on the route.