published March 24, 2009 and has No Comments
These small copepods ate up algae, preventing it from sinking to great enough depths for long-term sequestration to work. Photo: AWI Researchers investigating ocean iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean as part of the Lohafex project have reported back that their results show that the geo-engineering technique could not have a major impact on absorbing excess carbon dioxide from ...
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published March 23, 2009 and has No Comments
Clark Little is a photographer with a gift for capturing the ocean at its most beautiful. When you take a look at his images, it's hard to imagine that the ocean is filling up with pollution and being emptied of its wildlife. As you click through these incredible photos, you'll remember just why it's worth fighting to save our ...
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published March 23, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Winnifred Bird I thought the term sounded familiar, so I searched Trehugger for "plastic resin pellets" but surprise, surprise, the first few hits where ads for Chinese producers of the stuff. These are tiny pellets that you may find in teddy bears. They are actually used to make a whole lot of other things, all plastic. And, researchers ...
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published March 22, 2009 and has No Comments
"To the untrained eye, it looks like water." This being World Water Day , the issue of water management and conservation (always a big one in this part of the world) got a bit of extra press in Israel today. On the positive side, the morning papers reported that Israel was being praised at the World Water Forum in ...
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Victims of the Exxon Valdez. Photo: Wikipedia A Toxic Legacy: Don't Forget, We Need to Prevent the Next One Naomi Lubick of Nature has a great piece about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She looks back at what actually happened on March 24th, 1989, and then looks at the implications: Impact on ecosystems then and now, what was done ...
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Reuters/Jonas Borg/UPPA/Photoshot An extraordinarily realistic, extraordinarily expensive robotic fish has been created to patrol the open sea and sniff out pollution. They're a lot like the robofish we talked about last year , only these things look very real. Check out the video of one swimming after the jump. ...
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published March 18, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC Doing Good on One Side, But Bad on the Other? According to a study published yesterday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), the health benefits of fish have been "over-dramatized" and this has put a large pressure on wild fish populations and habitats. Could this be doing more harm than good in the end?... ...
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published March 16, 2009 and has No Comments
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 jelly fish as a snack. Check out the documentary video that shows the research project, and swim with the sea turtle!...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Jonathan Bird Productions The 17th annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital kicked off yesterday and will continue through March 22 with 136 eco-themed documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental and children’s films. This year's festival has several films on oceans and sea life and a special Ocean Film Series, including the world premiere of The State ...
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published March 9, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC Trouble's In the Middle A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society in Kenya shows that Coral reefs, and the fish that live there, are "healthiest in both the richest, most well developed areas and in the poorest, most under-developed ones." Right in the middle of the socioeconomic spectrum is where corals suffer most. Tim ...
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