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• Lord Monckton on Climategate

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  This is a presention by Lord Monckton in Berlin, at which he specifically discusses eight of the major players in Climategate and their actions. He pulls no punches. He even mentions the change of opposition leader in Australia and the rejection of the ETS there, which was particularly satisfying for me as I had been ...
  1 week ago

• Plastic In Our Oceans

  
  Fishing Fury — Authority: 122
  It’s hard to imagine the environmental impact created by items we use everyday. Lighters, bottles and other things we use often find their way into our waterways. There are islands of plastic that can be deadly to bird and fish populations. Even in remote areas of the earth, the effects of floating plastic can be ...
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• Did You Know? The Albatross and the Bottle Cap

  
  WillTaft.com Full Feed — Authority: 120
  T hanks to Steve for his submission to the “Did You Know” series. I did know that plastic, apart from being a chemical insult to human health, also causes tremendous ecological harm. I did not know about plastic and the Albatross however. T he Albatross, among the largest of flying birds and the bird with ...
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• Youth Ain’t Wasted

  
  SubMerge Magazine — Authority: 120
  Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band has the heart of a teen, literally. Words by Robin Bacior “We didn’t necessarily know what we were getting ourselves into,” explained Benjamin Verdoes, co-founder and lead singer of Seattle, Wash.-based Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. He talked over the group’s timeline as he ...
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• How the Albatross begat the Penguin

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 498
  Allen Lane conceived of Penguin Books as series of cheap reprints of good books in a new format, distributed through unconventional sales channels. These ideas were heavily influenced by The Albatross Continental Library series issued in Germany from 1932. Dubliners was #1. Albatross was the brainchild of John Holroyd ...
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• New Island, New Point of View

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 130
  The last landing yesterday was on an island, once privately owned. The residents welcomed us to the wee museum above the beach where we landed. The beach was the first sandy beach we’ve seen on this expedition. A flock of kelp geese, uplands geese and oyster catchers were being eyed by a caracara at the water’s ...
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• Think Green Thursday

  
  Almost There — Authority: 129
  On Thursdays here in Blogland, we start Thinking Green , and Michelle hosts our meme for us. Today my post will be short and sweet. I just want to remind everyone who finds themselves on the shore or a pier, sailing or in a fishing boat, do NOT be tempted to dispose of even the smallest piece of trash - not even a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Caracara and Albatross

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 130
  We reached Steeple Jason in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) at 2 PM yesterday. The spring sunshine was intense and the wind strong. Great weather for watching Black-browed Albatross glide and dive-bombing caracara. We transferred ashore in Zodiacs. The hike to the albatross colony was about 1.5 km from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Steeple Jason

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 130
  Yesterday, our day at sea ended with a showing of sing-along Mamma Mia, served with popcorn. The popcorn was a clever trick to encourage reluctant singers like me to attend. The well-attended event was enhanced by 10 degree rolls of the icebreaker. No injuries occurred, with exception of the shredding of our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chris Jordan– Midway

  
  Photography for a Greener Planet — Authority: 99
  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the North Pacific Gyre, is now twice the size of Texas, and still many people are not yet aware of it. The patch is a result of marine pollution such as dumping from large ships, as well as every day litter on beaches and coast. But most of it, believe it or not, is garbage ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the Drake Passage

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 130
  Our landings – and those of nearly every other ship sailing the eastern end of the South Shetlands – were cancelled today. The winds are blowing at 40 knots and the sea swells are 3 meters. So Captain headed for the Drake and the Falklands. The inclinometer in the lounge has swung from 5 degrees port to 5 degrees ...
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• ICCAT leaves albatross conservation dead in the water

  
  10,000 Birds — Authority: 567
  From BirdLife : “After a 3-year seabird risk assessment that found tuna and swordfish longline fishing has significant impacts on Atlantic seabird populations, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas failed to act at a recent meeting in Recife, Brazil”. No, I’m not at all surprised ...
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• Albatross (2010) under production

  
  Calcutta Tube:Bengali Movies-Bollywood News — Authority: 136
  Albatross is a 2010 drama directed by Neil MacCormick starring Julia Ormond, Sebastian Koch, Harry Treadaway, Alexis Zegerman, Kenneth Collard and more. The movie is produced by Adrian Sturges.
  4 weeks ago

• Intolerable beauty

  
  The Book of Barely Imagined Beings — Authority: 132
  Chris Jordans photographs of the plastic in the stomachs of baby albatrosses on Midway Island are, he says, an attempt to communicate what is "an incredible tragedy symbolic on many levels":Before going out there we met with a group of Hawaiian elders and received their teachings from Hawaiian spiritual tradition..one ...
  4 weeks ago

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