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• in Technology
  Explore the deep with Google Sea View
  Google is teaming up with Queensland University to offer a Street View like product to explore the oceans.
  by cmimanagers / on Feb 24, 2012
• in Green
  Sustainable Fisheries
  Our oceans are in jeopardy of becoming 'fished out.'
  by caroline1234 / on Sep 19, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oceans”

 

• Observatory: Oyster Shells Are an Antacid to the Oceans

  
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  Decomposing oyster shells, made of calcium carbonate, act like an antacid pill and help generate alkalinity in the increasingly acidic oceans, a study finds.        
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• Favorite Features?

  
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  Im very impressed with what I have seen so far with Viking Oceans. So much thought has gone into the product and I think it will be stiff competition for Oceania and Azamara. I love the fact that everything is on the table so to speak, in one swift move. None of the "slow reveal", a marketing game that most cruise ...
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• Ocean Warming Means A New Paradigm For The World’s Fisheries

  
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  Michael Conathan, Director of Ocean Policy at the Center for American Progress (Credit: Robert F. Bukaty, AP) Fishing is a profession often passed down from one generation to the next. Many lobstermen in Maine fish the same bottom their fathers and grandfathers fished, and the same holds true of fishermen ...
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• Ocean Warming Means A New Paradigm For The World’s Fisheries

  
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  Michael Conathan, Director of Ocean Policy at the Center for American Progress (Credit: Robert F. Bukaty, AP) Fishing is a profession often passed down from one generation to the next. Many lobstermen in Maine fish the same bottom their fathers and grandfathers fished, and the same holds true of fishermen ...
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• A Big Move for a Small State -- Delaware Bans Shark Fins

  
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  Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Delaware may be tiny in terms of its size, but in terms of its bold action for ocean conservation and the protection of the apex predators that sustain our marine resources  Delaware is a giant . This week Governor Jack Markell of Delaware made ...
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• Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

  
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  Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the worlds ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded. We may survive, we ...
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• Kefalonia’s Myths and Traditions | Between the white beaches and fishing villages

  
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  The most beautiful bay of Kefalonia is the largest and the greenest of the Ionian Islands, in Greece, but also one of the most spectacular in the Mediterranean: Myrthos Beach stretches for two kilometers of pure white pebbles on the sea, in all shades of blue, along the west coast of the island. There is [...]
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• Fish farms provided 66.5 million tons in 2012 about 42% of total world fish production

  
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  Aquaculture Production in 2012 is estimated at around 66.5 million tonnes. This is based on the preliminary data for several major producers and projections for others, the world aquaculture production of food fish in the year 2012 is estimated at around 66.5 million tonnes. World aquaculture production of food fish ...
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• The most beautiful beaches of Corsica: Rondinara

  
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  A crescent of white sand that encloses a Polynesians colored lagoon which is protected by UNESCO and can be found halfway between Porto Vecchio and Bonifacio (you can live the place in the air and the concerts of cicadas). The boats came here fleeing from the clamor of the Costa Smeralda, the machines along the [...]
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• Death of hundreds of baby right whales continues to puzzle scientists

  
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  Scientists still dont know why hundreds of baby southern right whales are turning up dead around Patagonia, a decade after observers first saw signs of the worst die-off on record for the species.
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• Health defects found in fish exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill

  
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  Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, scientist. With researchers from Louisiana and South ...
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• New endangered list for ecosystems modeled after Red list for species

  
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  The IUCN has unveiled the first iteration of its new Red List of Ecosystems, a ranking of habitats worldwide.
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• Scientists discover that marine animals disperse seagrass

  
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  Lesser known than coral reefs, marine seagrass ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and are powerhouses when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide. Yet, much remains unknown about the ecology of seagrass beds, including detailed information on how seagrass spread their seeds and colonize new area. Now a recent study ...
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• Iceland to Hunt Fin Whales Again--Call on the Obama Administration to Impose Sanctions

  
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  Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Endangered fin whales may once again face Iceland’s harpoons. According to media reports, Iceland will resume fin whale hunting next month after a two year hiatus – and is set to kill up to 184 endangered ...
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• Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor

  
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  In the middle of the South Atlantic, theres a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds, few fish, not even much plankton. But researchers report that theyve found buried treasure under the empty waters: ancient DNA ...
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• Featured video: saving sea turtles in Mexicos Magdalena Bay

  
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  A new short film, Viva la tortuga documents the struggle to save loggerhead and green sea turtles in Magdalena Bay, Mexico. Once a region for a massive sea turtle meat market, the turtles now face a new threat: bycatch. Loggerhead sea turtles are drowning in bottom-set gillnets, unable to escape from the nets once ...
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• Dot Earth Blog: Fresh Analysis of the Pace of Warming and Sea-Level Rise

  
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  New looks at the pace of global warming and sea-level rise.        
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• Fresh Analysis of the Pace of Warming and Sea-Level Rise

  
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  New looks at the pace of global warming and sea-level rise.
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• Unique Wave Flume Facility Allows Scientists To Study How Sea Spray Seeds Clouds

  
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  A great deal of attention has been paid to the environmental impact of what humans put into the oceans and what humans release into our air. But as waves crash, the ocean itself is releasing tiny particles into the air that can impact cloud formation and climate. Researchers at the University of California, San ...
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• Professor researches pupfish behavior

  
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  Sean Lema, Ph.D., discusses phenotypic plasticity of pupfish in different environments among the several pupfish species in Death Valley. (Robert Huskey / Daily Titan) A biology professor from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo spoke on his research about the behavior and flexibility of pupfishes, a small sized fish species ...
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