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99% of the plastic we throw in the ocean has mysteriously disappeared
Since the 1970s, at least 0.1% of this plastic has ended up in the ocean. Conservative estimates put the amount of plastic bobbing around the ocean at 1 million tons (though it’s probably a lot more). Here’s the weird thing: It’s not there. Or at least, most of it isn’t.
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These Are The Seafoods We'll Be Eating In The Future
Goodbye, tuna. So long, cod. Hello, pangasius and kelp! These are the seafoods — and sea organisms — we are likely to be eating in the future.
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California Oil Spill Turns Out to Be a Freakishly Massive Amount of Fish
Earlier this week in La Jolla, California, what appeared to be a massive oil spill in the water began creeping towards the beach. However, closer inspection revealed that the inky cloud was not a batch of Exxon-Mobil's finest at all, but an enormous school of fish. Specifically, anchovies.
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Sean Connery joins Bahamas campaign to stop billionaire developing mansion
Sir Sean Connery has added his name to a lawsuit designed to stop fashion billionaire Peter Nygard from developing his mansion in the Bahamas. As reported by the Observer last week, the Save the Bays campaign claims the property development risks environmental damage to some of the islands' most famous beaches, including those where the Bond and Jaws films were set.
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More Big Whales in Oceans Could Mean More Fish, Scientists Find
A new study reveals how scientists and fisheries managers have underestimated the importance of whales in ocean ecosystems.
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Can Drones Fight Illegal "Pirate" Fishing?
Aquamarine waters and an abundance of marine life make Glover Reef off the coast of Belize a popular diving spot. But soon the azure sky above this barrier reef may be filled with the buzzing of drones, sent to combat the illegal fishing that plagues the region.
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Great Barrier Reef 'in worst state since records began'
The Great Barrier Reef is in the worst state it's been in since records began and will be "pretty ugly" within 40 years, Australian scientists say. A Senate committee is investigating how the Australian and Queensland governments have managed the reef, with Unesco to decide next year whether to list it as a world heritage site in danger.
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Palau Plans to Ban Commercial Fishing, Create Enormous Marine Reserve
The people of Palau, a small island nation in the northwestern Pacific, have long realized that the health and prosperity of their nation depends on the ocean. Because of this realization, Palauans have always worked to protect their ocean resources. That’s why Palau has drawn the world’s top scientists and ocean writers, and why Palau has repeatedly been rated the world’s top diving destination.
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Tropical Fish Cause Trouble as Climate Change Drives Them Toward the Poles
Climate change drives sea creatures toward the Poles and into conflict with established communities.
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BP Oil Spill Is Much Worse Than People Think, Scientists Say
"Yes, I'm concerned," lead researcher Charles Fisher said. "The ocean is under a lot of pressure ... and the deep sea is starting to feel it as well."
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Octopus Cares For Her Eggs For 53 Months, Then Dies
In April of 2007, Bruce Robison sent a submersible into a huge underwater canyon in California’s Monterey Bay. At the canyon’s base, 1400 metres below the surface, he spotted a lone female octopus—Graneledone boreopacifica—crawling towards a rocky slope. The team sent the sub to the same site 38 days later and found the same female, easily recognisable through her distinctive scars.
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Scientists name new species of cetacean: The Australian humpback dolphin
Scientists examining a taxonomically confused group of marine mammals have officially named a species new to science: the Australian humpback dolphin, Sousa sahulensis, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Clymene Enterprises.
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UK's deep sea mountain life filmed
Scientists have sent a remotely operated vehicle to film one of the UK's three undersea mountains, known as seamounts.
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Tiny Seahorses Growl When Perturbed
Seahorses growl when grouchy, with researchers now wondering what additional sounds these and other tiny marine life make. Continue reading →
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Shark Fears Threaten Newly Identified Dolphin
A newly described species of dolphin, the Australian humpback dolphin, was just named a few days ago, and it’s already under threat.Human fear of sharks, which has let to shark nets being set around coastal areas, has caused the accidental capture of the newly identified dolphin. According to a paper published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, the dolphins wind up as by-catch “in shark nets set around beaches to protect bathers.”...
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Glowing sharks in twilight zone have amazingly adapted eyes
Sharks use bioluminescence and specially adapted eyes to operate in deep ocean water where sunlight barely penetrates. Sharks use their ability to glow in social interactions like hunting and seeking out mates.
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New jellyfish discovered: giant venomous species found off Australia
A giant and extremely venomous jellyfish found off Western Australia’s north-west coast has researchers stumped because it appears to have no tentacles. Keesingia gigas is one of two new species of Irukandji jellyfish recently discovered by the director of Marine Stinger Advisory Services, Lisa-ann Gershwin.
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Are fish far more intelligent than we realize?
Most people think of fish as somehow lesser than pigs, cows, chickens and other land animals. We have a vague notion that fish aren't as intelligent (think of the common belief that fish only have a three-second memory) and genuinely wonder whether they can feel pain. Lots of people consider themselves vegetarians, but eat fish while abstaining from all other meats.
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The terrifying true story of the garbage that could kill the whole human race
The five major oceanic gyres make up about a quarter of the Earth’s surface. Underneath the apparent chaos of the world’s weather, the gyres turn like clockworks, driven by the sun and the Earth’s rotation. A bit of flotsam entering the current off the coast of Brazil might make it all the way to West Africa and then bob on back to where it started in about three years.
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Antarctic hides extreme ecosystem
Scientists have pulled up thousands of different types of micro-organisms from Lake Whillans, a large body of water buried 800m under the ice sheet.
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