Author: Emmett Duffy
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Blue Haiku
Ocean. Haiku. Two great tastes that taste great together. By Elliott Kurtz from the new blog Panthalassa Rising: Blue-tinged planet spins Ocean rise, again to fall ’till the end of all [Hat tip to Dr. M]
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Turtle deaths linked to shrimpers in Gulf
First the sharks, now this. Sea turtles have been washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in alarming numbers in recent months. Another casualty of the massive BP oil spill? Not directly, although there may well be a connection. It appears that the culprit is at least in part a surreptitious…
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Decapitated ecosystems come back to haunt us
What happens when you cut off something’s head? In the case of an ecosystem, it doesn’t die, but transforms into something very different — and sometimes scary. A zombie, if you like. Decapitation is essentially what humans are doing to food webs throughout the world’s islands, continents, and oceans. Meaning that we’re cutting off the…
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Treasures of the White Sea
I’ve just discovered this fabulous gallery of exquisite images by Russian underwater photographer Alexander Semenov. Alexander works in a place that most of us have never heard of, and few would dream of as hosting some of the beautiful animals that he’s virtually captured — the White Sea, an embayment of the Arctic Ocean…
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Sea monster proves to be a regular animal
The mystery is solved. After more than a week of holding their collective breath, sea monster enthusiasts throughout the world can now rest easy, albeit a bit deflated. The serpentine 30-foot creature that washed up on a Scottish beach has been identified by a crack team from the Scottish Agricultural College. Alas, it appears that…
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Humpback whale speaks, says “Thank you”
Well, maybe not in so many words. Not in English anyway. But to those who believe that animals don’t experience emotions–and I gather they still exist–I challenge you to watch this and tell me you don’t understand how the whale feels [Show starts about 6:30 in] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYPlcSD490[/youtube] P.S. Don’t try this at home kids.
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Zen garden with squid: A photo essay
I love fish markets — I always feel like a kid in a candy store, looking for the strange and interesting creatures and parts thereof hidden on a back shelf or down a back aisle. So I seek them out where’er I go. I’ve not been to the famed Tokyo fish market I’m afraid, where…
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Love. Not loss.
The drumbeat of bad news about the state of Nature, including the oceans, is constant nowadays. But is anybody listening? What will save the world in the end? Love? Watch this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIdwOEzreM[/youtube] Hat tip to Helen for the photo.
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Another Ocean
We are not alone. Well, we may yet turn out to be alone — in the sense of being (along with whales, primates, and various other earthbound animals) the only sentient living beings in the universe. But our world ocean is evidently not the only one there is. Astronomers have just published a new paper…
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Cuba Journal: Day 8 – Adios
Day 8: Friday 3 June Peace. A gentle breeze coming down the creek between the mangroves and through the corridor of the house, rustling the drying wetsuits over the concrete porch, faint bird and insect songs from the mangroves all around us. A jutilla climbs down out of the trees into the dinghy tied off…