Author: John Bruno
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Bluefin boycott
Join 25,000 other people that have pledged to stop eating endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna. We are hunting this incredible fish to extinction, regional management is not working, the industry is corrupt and market forces are against us. So why not just reduce demand? Go here to take the pledge and to see who else has…
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Of polar bears and tipping points
This is a guest post by Dr. Gregory Thiemann, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Greg is a polar bear expert that I met in Canada recently when we both worked with Polar Bears International on their Tundra Connections project. As I write this, I’m on a Calm Air flight enroute…
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Save a shark, vote for WhySharksMatter
WhySharksMatter, AKA U Miami PhD student David Shiffman, is competing for a scholarship to help support his research on the ecological importance of sharks to coral reefs. David is still a student but is one of the most prolific and talented bloggers in the ocean blogs universe. He is one of the trio of super-talented bloggers…
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Kitesurfing Japan
Two new videos from the Dredge Zone [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30744600[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30985771[/vimeo]
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The Jaws effect: why we misunderstand sharks
The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer (1899) From Nat Geo (by Patrick Kiger, HT to Abel V): Audiences cringed in terror as they watched the 1975 movie thriller Jaws, which depicted shark hunters’ desperate struggle to survive an encounter with a monstrous aquatic serial killer that was powerful enough to turn their fishing cruiser into splinters, and was…
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800,000 years of CO2 (NOAA)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roa73Q8qZtA&[/youtube]
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Arctic sea ice hockey stick
A new paper in Science (Kinnard et al 2011) reports that the recent loss in arctic sea ice is likely to be unique over the last 15 centuries and caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Here we use a network of high-resolution terrestrial proxies from the circum-Arctic region to reconstruct past extents of summer sea ice,…
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Fiji Vignette 3/3
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32449778[/vimeo]
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Still no ice on Hudson Bay
Update: The maps from the Environment Canada site indicate some freezing up along the shore which matches up with what I saw on my last day in Churchill (last Thursday) when the air temp. dropped to 0F (it is currently -9F! but forecasted to warm up substantially later in the week):
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Arctic sea ice update
No matter how you look at it, Arctic sea ice trends this fall are grim. Arctic sea ice extent (spatial coverage) this fall is still tied with 2007 as the lowest on record (upper left) and the extent anomalies (values compared with the 1979-2000 mean) continue to decline (upper right): Minimum sea ice area is also…