SeaMonster blog
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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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Goodbye to Belize
[The final post in our Belize series from the New York Times Scientist at Work blog]: Tuesday, July 10 As the days tick away, so do our last hopes of finding social shrimp. We came to Carrie Bow to collect two types of eusocial shrimp, each living in colonies with a single queen and dozens…
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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…
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