Tag: Oceans
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The Week in Animal News: We're Making Raccoons Smarter, a Tiny Crab Makes Awesome Art and More
A PBS documentary alleges that human activities are honing raccoons problem solving skills. We also have a crab who makes sweet sand art, PETA's anti-slavery lawsuit and more.
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When You Wash Your Clothes, You Release Microplastic Fibers Into the Oceans
Accumulating 'microplastic' threat to shores
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Swim Down Through a Sea of Trash With Dramatic, Eerily Beautiful Photos by Mandy Barker
What would it be like to swim through the estimated 100 million tons of trash swirling around in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? These photographs bring viewers as close as they'd probably ever want to come to finding out.
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Playing With Beach Sand Might Make You Sick, Warns EPA
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water, it turns out that land onshore might be more likely to make you sick.
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Plastic Pollution in the Oceans is Causing Problems for Whales, too.
Fish, turtles, and birds are well known, now, as species impacted by plastic pollution in the oceans but the swirling concentration of bags, caps, and bits is increasingly becoming a problem for whales as well.
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Super Bowl Ad Goes Silent for Ocean Conservation (Video)
This year, some football fans (and their accommodating loved ones) may have found the Super Bowl Sunday's most dramatic moment wasn't part of the game at all.
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Tiny Crab Unintentionally Makes Awesome Sand Art (Photos)
Some artists are prone to being a bit aloof, but in nature there's a sculptor that may be crabbiest of all.
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Are Jellyfish Taking Over the World's Oceans? Scientists Cast Doubt
There's no doubt we've seen an uptake in jellyfish numbers over the last few years, but does that mean they'll dominate the seas for year's to come? A group of scientists aren't so sure about that, and are taking a closer look.
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Prehistoric Atlantic Sturgeon Newest Addition to the Endangered Species List
The ancient Atlantic sturgeon is the latest species to be added to the Endangered Species List.
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Turkish Fisherman Shot in Head as Fight Against Unsustainable Fishing Gets Ugly in Istanbul
A fisherman who had criticized illegal fishing practices loses an eye in an armed attack as diminishing fish stocks and increased debts create a volatile atmosphere.
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Sea Cucumber Poo May be Key to Saving Coral Reefs
Tropical sea cucumber excrement could hold the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from the devastating effects of ocean acidification.
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Massive Expansion of Shellfish Farming May be Key to Sustainable Aquaculture
New techniques for shellfish farming are leading to innovative partnerships. Some areas of Rhode Island could sustain a 600-fold expansion of oyster farms.
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Dancing Bottle Cap Sculpture Shows Exactly What Happens With Too Much Ocean Trash
Artist Fred George's 'Plastic Ocean' installation in Saarbrücken, Germany is a playful statement about a serious environmental threat.
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Turtle Mating Habits May Hedge Against Impacts of Climate Change
For marine turtles, incubation temperature dictates sex meaning a warmer world will produce more female turtles. Fortunately, it seems the turtle mating behavior may help them cope with the imbalance.
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Study Links Rising Ocean Acidification to CO2 Emissions
According to researchers from the University of Hawaii, ocean acidity levels in some regions have spiked more quickly in the last 200 years than in the preceding 21 thousand years.
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More Than 60 Dolphins Wash Ashore in Cape Cod
Volunteers and experts race to save those healthy enough to return to the ocean.
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Environmental Disaster Looms Over Wrecked Cruise Ship
The ship is said to be loaded with some 2,380 tons of oil which, as the situation progresses, could very likely be spilled into the pristine, ecologically rich waters near the site of the wreck.
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Dolphins and Whales Engage in Rare Interspecies Play (Video)
Biologists have recorded several incidents of what appears to be wild humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins getting together for some playtime at sea -- behavior which researchers say is extremely rare to see.
