Category: Blog
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Coral reef grazing in Palau
From Peter Mumby’s Spatial Ecology Lab at UQ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/42031793[/vimeo]
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Cheer up climate communicators; America’s views on climate change are better than you think
The George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) has a new report based on their monitoring of the attitudes of American’s about climate change: America’s Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes, March 2012. Highlights of the survey (with “expert” commentary) • Since November 2011, public belief that global warming is happening increased by 3 points, to…
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Big wave awards 2012
Check out some of the nominations for the Billabong 2012 Big Wave Awards: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQ4asDar_s&[/youtube]
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Sun coral
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9437395[/vimeo]
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A judge for the ocean
The article below from Sea Shepherd describes the slowly developing recognition that the current judiciary in Ecuador and elsewhere cannot deal with various environmental laws. Just like the recent case in Indonesia, when a boat was caught illegally harvesting sharks in the Galapagos, all the fisherman were sent home with minimal fines. But on the other…
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The political economy and ecology of fisheries
Below is a guest post by my colleague and workout buddy, Dr Elizabeth Havice, a fisheries economist and tuna guru in the Department of Geography here at UNC. And what of the people, places, politics, and economics behind change in fisheries systems? Here on SeaMonster we see all sorts of amazing stories about the creatures…
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Mid-week shark finning news round up
There has been some important news this week about the global shark fin fishery problem. First is a piece by Juliet Eilperin about the problem of illegal shark fishing in marine reserves. Just last week another boat was caught illegally harvesting sharks from a globally important reserve: Local and regional authorities in Indonesia caught 33 poachers…
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Twilight of the giants in taxonomy
[Adapted in part from my recent review at Faculty of 1000] In an important sense, nothing exists until it’s given a name. And in the living world of organisms, names—official, scientific names—are assigned by unique creatures called taxonomists, experts in the minutiae of structure and biology of particular groups of organisms, working according to a…
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Seaweed is important to the Galapagos Islands
UNC PhD student Lindsey Carr has been working in the Galapagos islands over the last few years. She is doing some really cool work on algae and all the neat herbivores there, including iguanas, fish, urchins, and sea turtles. But she is short on funds for her planned field work this summer: please help her…
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Biodiversity, simply
Have you ever been flummoxed trying to understand — or explain — the concept and importance of biodiversity? Your prayers have been answered. This short video is an absolute gem of intuitive, attractive, concision (en español, with subtitles): [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33683059[/vimeo] HT to Julia Whitty at Mother Jones.