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Climate change: lines of evidence
A great video from the National Academy of Sciences about climate change and the science that helps us understand it and attribute global warming to greenhouse gas emissions. Great for teaching! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIUN5ziSfNc&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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Tachypleus gigas
by Haeckel
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Catch shares
This is a repost of several articles by Mark Gibson from Breaching the Blue: A new study evaluates the impacts of catch share management in the U.S. and Canada, finding: [C]atch shares result in environmental improvements, economic improvements, and a mixture of changes in social performance, relative to the race for fish under traditional management. Environmentally, compliance with total…
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Why we know the earth is warming and that human activities are responsible
In a piece about a new finding from the BEST project, SkS did a nice job explaining why we know the earth is warming and that human activities are responsible: 1) Basic physics – human fossil fuel combustion has increased the greenhouse effect, causing a global energy imbalance, which the planet responds to by warming. Over…
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Greenland’s frozen coasts expedition
Check out this really cool research expedition blog, Greenland’s Frozen Coast Expedition, from WHOI research scientist Ben Harden. On 26 July, 2012 our ocean-science party, with members from Iceland, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, will board the northbound British Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross in Reykjavik, Iceland for a thirty-day expedition along the…
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Reunion island surfers calling for shark massacre
I’m so disappointed to read about the surfers of Reunion island calling for sharks to be fished and removed from a marine reserve after several surfers were attacked (some fatally): After third shark attack fatality, Protesters ask Prefect of Reunion Island to allow shark fishing in Marine Reserve. In the aftermath of the latest fatal shark…
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
You Wouldn’t Eat a Tiger, So Why Would You Eat Endangered Bluefin Tuna?
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Climate change is here — and worse than we thought
Below is a repost of an op-ed by Dr. James Hansen, director NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, that ran in the Washington Post last Friday, August 3. When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet.…
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Tiger shark
By Austin Gallagher, shot in the Bahamas.
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Arctic sea ice “death spiral” marches on
a repost by Nevon from the Arctic Sea Ice Blog: Here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: I think it’s pretty safe to say that we’re going to have a new record volume low, although the difference with 2010…