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In Search Of Conservation's 'Holy Grail' – Dealing With The Trade-Offs

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“The Triple Bottom Line Solution” – When it comes to to preserving and conserving this planet’s dwindling crucial ecosystems and biodiversity “hot spots”, the mission is full of trade-offs. Effective conservation efforts can be costly and limiting access to natural resources (exploitation of which has led to the need for conservation in the first place) […]

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Algae In The Gulf Of Mexico Purposefully Become Toxic When Food Is Scarce

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The very-common “red tide” algae Karenia brevis is regularly responsible for a very large number of fish deaths through large-scale fish kills. And now new research has revealed that these large fish kills are partially a result of the algae purposefully becoming more poisonous as a result of limited nutrients, as a survival mechanism. When

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Sharks May Go Extinct Within The Next Few Decades, 100 Million Sharks Killed Every Year

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Sharks may become extinct within only the next few decades as a result of the significant declines they are experiencing, new research has found. Shark populations have been declining at a rapid rate as a result of the booming trade in their fins, recreational fishing, and being caught as by-catch in other forms of fishing.

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Scientists Identify Mysterious Deep Sea ‘Electric Bug’ That Forms ‘Living Power Cables’

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The ‘electric bug’, or more specifically, a form of bacteria, was first discovered in 2010 by Danish scientists studying the mysterious chemical fluctuations in the sediment of Aarhus Bay. They had observed a strange chemical linkage between oxygen levels in the water and reactions in the deeper sediments that was faster than chemical theory could

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Increasing Amounts Of Plastic Trash Being Found In The Arctic Deep Sea

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  The seafloor in the Arctic deep sea is becoming increasingly polluted with plastic garbage and waste, according to researchers. There is more trash seen at the AWI deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN in the Arctic than even in a deep-sea canyon that’s located next to Lisbon, Portugal. The new research was led by Dr. Melanie Bergmann,

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The First Victims Of Climate Change

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  People are accustomed to equalize terms of “global warming” and “climate change,” but in fact they are pretty much distinctive. Global warming is one of the reflections of climate change, which might be compared to glaciers’ meltdown, natural disasters, and overwhelming precipitations. Certainly, they follow the global process of climate change, which results in major influence

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U.S. Businessman Conducts Massive and 'Illegal' Ocean Fertilization Experiment Off Canada's West Coast

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[UPDATED: Oct. 18, 2012; see below] Geoengineering theories and  experiments have received much attention in recent years, with one recent experiment in “ocean (iron) fertilization” successfully conducted off the coast of Antarctica by a German scientific research team. Past experiments of this kind had mostly failed. The basic idea is to trigger large blooms of

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New Insight Into The Amazing Vanished Skills of Prehistoric Species Of Animal Architects

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  A new clue that is giving insight into the impressive skills of possibly the most sophisticated animal architects to ever live on Earth has been found gathering dust on a museum shelf nearly 100 years after being found. This certainly isn’t the first time that a scientifically valuable fossil has sat unrecognized in museum

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Climate Change Will Lead To Smaller Fish, Study Says

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  Climate change’s effects on the ocean and various climate systems could very likely lead to smaller ocean fish, according to new research by fisheries scientists at the University of British Columbia. Their research, just published September 30th in the journal Nature Climate Change, is providing the “first-ever global projection of the potential reduction in

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Our Ocean Once Again

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  Shell Oil has had its eyes on the Arctic for over five years now. Hundreds of meetings and billions of dollars later, this summer was supposed to be Shell’s year to finally drill in the Arctic Ocean. Thankfully, a series of embarrassing safety setbacks have held Shell back. The announcement that the company would

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Historic "Wave Energy" Power Station Set To Begin Development In Oregon Waters

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  In a little-noticed breakthrough for sustainable, non-fossil-fuel electricity generation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last month issued the first-ever license for a wave power station in the United States. The license was issued to Ocean Power Technologies, a New Jersey–based private corporation specializing in wave energy. The first stage of the station, a

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Arctic Sea Ice May Disappear Within 4 Years, According To One Of The World's Leading Sea Ice Researchers

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  The complete collapse of Arctic sea ice during the summer months may happen within four years, according to one of the world’s leading sea ice researchers. The Arctic sea ice is very rapidly disappearing, much faster than climate models have predicted. It reached its lowest ever recorded extent earlier this summer, weeks before the

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Warming Oceans Will Start Massive Changes In Antarctic Ice Sheet

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  Massive and rapid changes in the Antarctic ice sheet are possible because of the action of fast-flowing and narrow glaciers, leading to rapid ice-sheet decay and sea-level rise, according to a just released study. It’s now been revealed in more detail than ever before “how warming waters in the Southern Ocean are connected intimately

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Caribbean Coral Reefs "On the Verge of Collapse"

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Update: Depressed by this news. Check out: “A Transformation From Environmental Grief to Environmental Action,” which will be on Google+ on Wednesday, 3/12/2004 at 11:00 am PST. The gist: environmental news can be depressing. How do you maintain your resolve to fight for a better environmental future? A new report issued by the International Union for Conservation of

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Deep-Sea Crabs Can See Ultraviolet Light, May Use The Ability To Hunt

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A bizarre form of vision has been discovered in crabs living half-a-mile down in the ocean, too deep to see sunlight they have developed a form of color vision that combines sensitivity to blue and ultraviolet light. This detection of shorter wavelengths may allow the crabs to differentiate between food and poison. “Call it color-coding

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Obama, Declaring "we must learn from history," Praises Chevron at A-bomb Memorial Service

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  President Obama, speaking at the annual “Chevron remembers Nagasaki” memorial service, today praised the US oil giant for its role “in helping all of us learn from history.” Speaking in San Fransisco moments before the crowd-pleasing pyrotechnic recreation of the 1944 blasts in Japan, Obama cited the role of the oil industry in working

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Shell: A Series of Broken Promises Spells Trouble for the Arctic

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This is a guest post by Dan Ritzman, Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club. “We recognize that industry’s license to operate in the offshore is predicated on being able to operate in a safe, environmentally sound manner. Shell’s commitment to those basic principles is unwavering. Our Alaska Exploration Plans and Oil Spill Response Plans

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Iceberg Nearly Twice The Size Of Manhattan Just Broke Off Of Greenland Glacier

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  An iceberg nearly twice the size of Manhattan has just broken away from the floating end of Petermann Glacier in Greenland. This event was predicted last autumn by researchers. The massive floating ice island is 46 square miles, and just separated from the terminus of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers. “The Petermann Glacier last

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Phytoplankton Blooms In North Atlantic Caused By Eddies, Not Sunlight

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  In a surprise finding, researchers have discovered that the whirlpools, or eddies, that swirl across the the North Atlantic are able to sustain phytoplankton blooms in the ocean’s shallower waters long before the longer days of spring start. During a recent expedition to the North Atlantic Ocean, researchers from the University of Washington, who

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Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Found Underneath The Arctic Pack Ice (Video)

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A massive phytoplankton bloom has been found underneath of the Arctic pack ice in the Chukchi Sea. The “impossible” discovery will require a completely new understanding of Arctic ecosystems, and is a clear signal of the changing climate in the Arctic. The discovery was made during NASA’s 2011 ICESCAPE expedition. To thrive, phytoplankton need light

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Whales and Elephants: Are They Instinctively Aware or Predictive of Tsunamis?

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  In April, as tsunami warnings hit the Indonesian and Sri Lankan coasts, sea-watching photographer and filmmaker Andrew Sutton of Britain was off the southern tip of Sri Lanka. He and his crew were watching and photographing whales who suddenly and completely vanished. The humans on the boat were not aware of why and were

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