Tag: Blue August

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  Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)

  "We all live downstream from one another," says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She's the host of Planet Green's Blue August,

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  Sigourney Weaver Deconstructs Disasterous Belo Monte Dam in 'Defending the Rivers of the Amazon' (Video)

  Brazil has received a whole lot of negativity regarding the Belo Monte dam. The $17 billion complex would divert nearly all of the flow of the Xingu River, a massive river known for its biodiversity, to generate hydroelectric power.

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  3D Look Inside Whales' Heads Shows Negative Effects of Marine Noise

  What happens inside a whale's head when it encounters sound? The mammals have highly developed capabilities of detecting and processing sound waves, something that helps them communicate over long distances, but which also spell their

• Sewage As Hurricane Protection? New Orleans Could Use It To Regrow Wetlands

  What Hurricane Katrina and many other hurricanes have told us is that wetlands are on the coastlines for a reason -- they act as a vital buffer protecting land from storms coming in from offshore. The fact that wetlands in the south have been developed

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  TED TALK - How Cartoonist Jim Toomey Infuses Sketches with Activism

  We've featured the work of cartoonist Jim Toomey before. He has a knack for educating readers on the issues surrounding marine litter and ocean pollution without the lecture-y tinge that too often turns people away. But how does he do it,

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  MIT's Fleet Of Solar-Powered Oil-Cleaning Robots a Solution for Gulf Spill (Video)

  MIT's Sensable City Lab directo Carlo Ratti and associate director Assaf Biderman have come up with the SeaSwarm, a robot that uses nanofibers to absorb 20 times its weight in oil, and their hope is that it can be developed

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  Gulf Oil Plume Gone, Eaten By Newly Discovered Microbes

  In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps

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  Tapi Tap Squeezes a Drink from Any Spigot

  The return of water fountains across cities has been the buzz lately, with places like London restoring old fountains and New York setting up new ones, though those are only temporary. It seems as though taking back the tap is

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  Blood Dolphins Miniseries Picks Up Where The Cove Left Off

  Unless you purposefully ignore pop culture news coverage, you're likely familiar with The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary revealing the annual dolphin hunts in Japan. The film made an incredible impression on global

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  Earth Has 12% Fewer Mangroves Than Previously Thought, New Satellite Data Reveals

  We've known the world's mangrove forests have been declining for some time, but new satellite imagery from the US Geological Survey and NASA shows that the situation is worse than we thought: More accurate mapping tells us

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  Hawaiian Coral Saved by Freezing Sperm

  As corals face a daily bashing through warm, polluted waters, the scientists at University

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  Melanin May Keep Corals Alive Through Climate Change

  Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how corals keep their immune systems strong -- a breakthrough that could help scientists understand how corals can last through, or adapt to, global

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  We Waste How Much Water On Coal?!

  We usually give coal the stink eye for the ways it harms the earth's surface when it is extracted, and the way it harms the earth's systems when it is burned. But we also need to hone in on the way coal harms

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  Nearly 80% of Oil From Gulf Spill Remains in Water, Threatens Ecosystem: Independent Analysis

  A new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant contends that the amount of oil remaining in the water in the wake of the Gulf oil spill is far higher than reported. In fact 70-79% of oil not

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  Submarine Communication Cables Called Upon for Climate Change Research

  John Yuzhu You, a scientists at Sydney University, has called upon telecommunications companies to do something extraordinarily helpful -- let scientists use their undersea cables for oceanic climate change

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  Super Cheap Nanotech "Tea Bag" Cleans Water Instantly (Video)

  Could a simple "tea bag" of carbon and antimacrobial fibers that costs just pennies be the solution for quickly filtered drinking water on the go? Scientists from Stellenbosch University in South Africa hope they've found the solution to drinking water

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  Relocation of 330,000 Residents Begins for China's Largest Water Project Since Three Gorges Dam

  Photo via Le Grand Portage via Flickr CC China has a water problem. In fact, the only resource constraint standing in the way of their rampant growth is water. There just isn't enough of it, especially in the north. That's why the country has been

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  How Bad Is Overfishing & What Can We Do To Stop It?

  By now you'd have to have been living on a desert island by yourself with an imaginary coconut companion to not know that overfishing is a serious problem for all the world's oceans. The good news is, though the future for fish