published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Marine biologist Rory Moore and his team, including photographer Danny Kessler, came across pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean and managed to take some extraordinary photographs of the curious animals. Pilot whales rarely come into contact with humans thanks to strict diving regulations, so the images are an extra special treat. While they appear to ...
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published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via NASA Okay, you get it. It's hot. Perhaps I've been ticked off by one too many 'global cooling' myth purveyors, but here it is -- another story about how hot it is this summer, and this year in general. NASA has released another report showing that from Jan. to July, 2010 is still the hottest year ever ...
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published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Dominic Alves /Creative Commons A seasoned dumpster diver who lived without cash for a year , Mark Boyle—aka the Moneyless Man—knows more than most about getting by without money. Having explored how to travel without cash , he's now tackling an even trickier subject—is it possible t... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It's a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it's all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing. Government officials believe that by providing more habitat for species, the fishing ...
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published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Like American cities, Toronto is taxed-starved to the point that a couple of years ago it couldn't find $75K to save its community yellow bike system. But its gotta be, as a former mayor used to say, "World Class", so if Paris and London and Montreal have bike share systems, so does Toronto. It is bringing Montreal's Bixi system ...
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published August 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Thousands of dead Menhaden fish washed ashore on a beach in Fairhaven, MA, a first for the residents living there. The cause, according to marine fisheries, is a lack of oxygen due to warmer waters. This type of fish is particularly sensitive to environmental changes such as these, and may have been dead for days before washing up on ...
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published August 4, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Andreas März via flickr
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Ocean Noise Pollution Leads Baby Fish Away From Good Habitat
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published August 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via avlxyz @ Flickr Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April, everyone from chef Tom Colicchio to President Barack Obama has come out to promise that Gulf Coast seafood is as safe and delicious as it ever was -- and to remind the rest of us that boycotting it won't help the regional fisherman who rely on ...
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published August 3, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: US Geological Survey via flickr Knock off one natural counterbalance to global warming: A new study in the Science shows that any hope that as Arctic sea ice melts and opens up new areas of open water potentially increasing its ability to store carbon emissions is ill-founded. In fact any increase in carbon storage will be short-lived and ...
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published July 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: AP Photo/NOAA The Sapphire Princess , a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, struck a 43 foot long female humpback whale on Wednesday, causing it to become lodged in an undersea protuberance of the bow. The ship, en route to Juneau, Alaska, was forced to make a detour to Douglas Island, where the whale was removed from ...
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