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• Oceans Preventing Climate Change — Good, Right? No

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  As scientists continue to show, the oceans absorb CO2 and keep it from going into the atmosphere. Thus, they help to protect against global climate change. However, this is looking to be perhaps an even bigger problem than climate change! When oceans absorb this CO2, it makes them more and more acidic. “Since ...
  16 hours ago

• Oceans Preventing Climate Change — Good, Right? No

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  As scientists continue to show, the oceans absorb CO2 and keep it from going into the atmosphere. Thus, they help to protect against global climate change. However, this is looking to be perhaps an even bigger problem than climate change! When oceans absorb this CO2, it makes them more and more acidic. “Since ...
  16 hours ago

• Climate Change ‘More Alarming Than Ever’ Claim UK Groups

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 121
  BBC News, November 24, 2009Three UK groups studying climate change have issued a strong statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the world.The Royal Society, Met Office, and Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) say the science of climate change is more alarming than ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  6 days ago

• Acid oceans make fish “fatally attracted” to their predators

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 22 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that ocean acidification can cause fish to become “fatally attracted” to their predators.Danielle Dixson, from James Cook University in Queensland, who led the study, claims fish are unable to “smell danger” because of the dissolved CO2.She ...
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• Virtual Urchin – Tutorials from Stanford

  
  Science Video Resources — Authority: 123
  Here are some flash tutorials from the team at Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford. They make good use of the properties of the sea urchin’s gametes for studies and learning experiences: Fertilisation and Development “Gametes of sea urchins yield exceptional experiences in the classroom ; teachers and ...
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• Melting Arctic Sea Ice Diluting Surface Water - Threatens Shellfish, Entire Polar Food Chain

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 700
  photo: Wikipedia . Heres a not so comforting discovery: A new paper in Science magazine says that Arctic sea ice melting is starting to dilute surface waters and threatening the tiny shellfish called pteropods that are the base of the Arctic food chain. Those small swimming snails get eaten by fish, which in ...
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• Oceans ability to sequester carbon diminishing

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new study—the first of its kind—has completed an annual accounting of the oceans intake of carbon over the past 250 years, and the news is troubling. According to the study, published in Nature , the oceans ability to sequester carbon is struggling to keep-up with mankinds ever-growing emissions. Since 2000 ...
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• Awesome Photo: Predatory Coral Eats Jellyfish

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  Coral seems so peaceful and passive, rippling in the currents of the sea in all its colorful beauty. It’s easy to forget that it’s actually an animal and not a plant. But, perhaps this photo will remind you – captured on a dive in Israel in March, it’s the first documentation of coral feeding on a jellyfish. ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Coral reef troubles indicate broader ecological problems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Today, many of our planets natural areas are seriously threatened by human incursion, overexploitation and global warming: Less than a fifth of the worlds original forest cover remains in unfragmented tracts, while just one-third of coastal mangroves survive to protect coastlines from storms and erosion. But none of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
  3 weeks ago

• 8 Sustainable Sources of Farmed Fish & Seafood

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 700
  Photo credit: ellievanhoutte via Flickr Farmed fish and seafood has sort of a bad reputation in some green circles. Sometimes -- as with, say, Atlantic salmon -- its for good reason. But there are a number of cases where farming can actually be a good thing -- for water quality, the health of the fish or seafood ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stop Killing the World’s Oceans

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 121
  SAM WATERSON, Special to CNN, November 2, 2009CNN Editor’s Note: Sam Waterston is an award-winning stage, film and television actor who is best known for his long-running role as prosecutor Jack McCoy on “Law & Order.” He is a member of the board of directors of Oceana, a nonprofit organization that seeks to ...
  3 weeks ago

• SuperFreakonomics Redux: Even Congress is Riled Up

  
  Red, Green, and Blue — Authority: 482
  Last week I wrote in this space that when faced with a problem (global warming, carbon dioxide emissions) that so clearly requires huge top-down action from governments the world over, what two contrarians write in a book doesn’t exactly bother me that much. It bothers Joe Romm at Climate Progress, clearly, and ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Freakonomics solution to finding yourself in a hole

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 457
  Or: Levitt and Dubner Keep Digging, Part One You’d think that the authors of a pop-econ best seller would be familiar with the sunk cost effect. You’d be wrong . Criticism of Levitt and Dubner’s (L&D from here on) atrocious chapter on climate has been swift and remarkably in-depth . L&D have been ...
  4 weeks ago

• Coral Cryobank being developed to preserve the diversity of threatened coral species

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 143
  The Coral Cryobank is the first global effort to help preserve coral species from the world’s struggling reefs that is being spearheaded by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The Coral Cryobank aims to protect the future of coral species diversity by placing corals in a deep freeze in liquid nitrogen. The ...
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• What Does SuperFreakonomics Have in Common with Old Tobacco Ads?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  What Does SuperFreakonomics Have in Common with Old Tobacco Ads? By Dr. Melanie Fitzpatrick and Aaron Huertas   In their follow-up to the best-selling Freakonomics , economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner exploit the public’s desire for an easy fix to global warming and along the way, ...
  4 weeks ago

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