Category: Blog
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Penguin Seduction
GoPro HD Hero camera + fuzzy hat as “decoy” + curious penguin = He got especially involved when I started building a pebble nest for the camera. Male Adelie penguins woo the ladies by bringing pebbles for their nests… this one started picking up the pebbles close to the camera with his beak, and plopping…
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Where’s the #climatechange coverage HuffPost?!
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Whale Falls: A Blubbery Oasis
In the spirit of the holiday season, let us consider the gift that really keeps on giving: dead whales! Okay, now before you get any big ideas, I’m talking about whales that have died naturally and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. These “whale falls” are a true oasis on the dark sea floor,…
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Where’s the #climatechange coverage?!
Seriously, so much is happening in the climate change world; scientific advancements, thoughtful policy debates about the choice we are facing, even some more funny stuff from the Onion. But you wouldn’t know any of that based on the coverage in the LSM. This is a wordle of the front page of today’s online edition…
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A warming climate takes its toll on the polar bears of Hudson Bay
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17469748[/vimeo] I got to spend some time with Dan in Churchill this year. He took us out polar bear watching via passenger van, he mentored me about the new line of Panasonic micro 4/3 cameras, he seems to know everything about this environment and travels the world as a photojournalist and guide.
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How to lie with statistics
Alright, I’m on this science thing again. Having spent my entire adult life applying rigorous logic to find out how things happen in the real world of cause and effect, I have this annoyance issue about people (Presidential candidates, for example) just making stuff up out of thin air. Now, at last, I understand how…
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Julia Whitty on the 2011 Arctic report card
From Deep Blue Home and NOAA’s 2011 Arctic report card: NOAA released its 2011 Arctic report card. Atmosphere: F Sea Ice & Ocean: F Hydrology & Terrestrial Cryosphere: F Marine Ecosystems : C Terrestrial Ecosystems: C The report doesn’t say ‘tipping point.’ But in fact it might well have been a tipping point. Here’s what this tippinglike…
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Behind the Mediterranean bluefin tuna trade
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wfUOfSd7M[/youtube]
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Great white shark seen off North Carolina coast!
That ain’t no bull shark! Both the video and commentary are awesome! (although, warning to parents: video contains some “fisherman language”) Some of my favorites: “That’s a big [Fing] bull shark…holy shit, holy shit!”. ” I think hes gotta be at least 18 feet, he’s [Fing] big …Wanna try to hook em?” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9Pkf75yX0&[/youtube]
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Canada’s failure to protect polar bears challenged
The Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S. conservation group, filed a formal challenge today over Canada’s failure to protect polar bears under its Species At Risk Act. The challenge was filed with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an entity established by the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, to monitor the three signatory countries’…