Tag: Turtles - Page 5
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Sea Turtle Cam Reveals Surprising Food Choice (Video)
A critter cam is attached to a green sea turtle, and researchers discover an interesting eating habit. The turtles are thought to be vegetarian, but as fireweed invades their usual veggie selections, the turtles turn to
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New "Corpse Plant" Species Discovered in Former Khmer Rouge Territory
Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse
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Deadly Ghost Net Removed from Sunken Ship
Public Domain image via Wikipedia Ghost nets are nets that are lost at sea and continue to kill wildlife. Off the California coast, a 9,000 pound ghost net is being removed from a ship sunk in 2006, thanks to a group of SCUBA divers and the Ocean
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Endangered Sea Turtles Face Death by a Thousand Hooks
The critically endangered leatherback sea turtles are leaving California's relatively safe coast for their annual Pacific migration to nesting beaches—and they could find a veritable death trap of 5 million new longline
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California Coastal Cleanup Day - September 20
Come one, come all. Next Saturday is the annual California Coastal Beach Cleanup and you're invited! People all across California will be participating in restoring beaches all at the same time, next Saturday September 20,
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Our Oceans Are Dying and We're At Fault
A very interesting Los Angeles Times article on the state of the oceans sounds like something out of a horror movie - fishermen come in contact with a spongy weed, only to break out into a painful rash that won't go away and
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Barack's Biofueled Endorsement, 7 Sea Turtle Species and $40 Bottled Water
Major ethanol producer, The American Corn Grower's Association, endorses Barack Obama.
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PETA to Buy Sea World
No we're not kidding. The San Diego Union Tribune reported this morning that as Anheuser-Busch, owner of SeaWorld, is about to be gobbled up by Belgian brewer InBev, they are looking to rid themselves of their theme parks and
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Top Five Roadkill Sites in North America
Last year we learned that a portion of the population actually aim their cars at turtles and snakes; In Canada's roadkill hot spot, the Long Point Causeway, 10,000 animals die each year. Now local groups are raising money to renovate
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Cuba Bans Turtle Hunt to Protect Species
Recently, we noted that the end of the United States' economic embargo against Cuba could be bad news for the Caribbean nation's impressive successes in environmental protection. In the meantime, however, Cuba continues to enact cutting edge
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Circle Hooks Save Turtles in Latin America
According to WWF, nearly 250,000 endangered loggerhead,
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Track, Hear From Migrating Marine Animals
The redesigned Web site for Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) is a veritable undersea trove for enthusiasts of marine life. Not only can you learn more about predators such as the Salmon Shark, Blue Whale, and Humboldt Squid, but you can also keep
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Hummer Holidays Squishing Skinks
Near the town of Blue Mountains, Canadian Hummer Adventures lets people drive Hummers through forests, over log piles and down steep hills. This worries conservationists. "The frogs get in these holes and think, 'Oh, that's great,' but then the next
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Solar Powered WiFi Bionic Turtles Lurking in Swamp
There is the internet, the slower sneakernet, and now we have the turtlenet. Scientists from the University of Massachusetts were trying to figure out how to track snapping turtles and figure out how they are coping with loss of habitat and other
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Iowa Ranks Third In Wind Energy
It's one thing to have a consistent breeze, but quite another to beat some big blowhards to the Megawatt punch. So here's to mighty Iowa, keeping it's rank as third in the nation for windpower output. Iowa installed 201.65 megawatts of new wind
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Tree Cutting for the Coming Hurricane Season
Following eight hurricanes over the last two years, Florida residents are concerned about power shortages to come. According to the Tampa Tribune of 26 January 2006, citizens have "...prompted legislators and regulators to ask tough questions about how
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Hack Your Hybrid—Activate EV Stealth Mode, Get Rid of the BEEP, and More!
Yes folks, as intimate as you might feel with your Prius, your high-tech friend is capable of doing things you never even imagined. With a little do-it-yourself, you can unlock a whole new set of latent magic powers that Toyota never wanted you to know
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DIY Wind Power
The last time we heard the name Ben Jandrell, he was wiring solar cordless headphones in our DIY Eco-Tech contest. Well, Ben is back with a great resource for DIY TreeHuggers - his site gotwind.org. Here, you can find pictures, descriptions,
