SeaMonster blog
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Why, you ask, is big oil misinforming us about climate change?
Bill McKibben has a new piece (excerpted below) about all this crazy weather, climate change, the carbon bubble, and why big oil is out to wreck our planet: If we spew 565 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere, we’ll quite possibly go right past that reddest of red lines. But the oil companies, private and state-owned, have…
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Brendan May on the Alaskan salmon fishing industry’s withdrawal from MSC
Another voice on seafood labeling; former MSC CEO Brendan May. HT to Breaching The Blue. This pieces was originally published here. Some rather troubling news for eco-labels this month with the decision by the Alaskan salmon fishing industry to withdraw from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) programme. A decade ago, Alaska salmon became the first fishery…
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Lionfish on the menu
Here are three stories that really deserve to be shared together, all about the catching and eating of our friend, the lionfish. First, is this article about a lionfish derby Dr Craig Layman, AKA The Abaco Scientist, organized with Friends of the Environment on Abaco, Bahamas on May 27, 2011. In one day, 15 boats…
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Brian & the Southern Right Whale
I recently chatted with award-winning underwater photojournalist Brian Skerry for the latest edition of the Naked Oceans podcast (which looks at Art and the Oceans). His pictures have appeared in National Geographic Magazine since 1998 and having spent more than 10,000 hours underwater he had heaps of amazing stories and excellent advice to share. But with only…
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Brian Skerry tapping into Ocean Soul
This week, Book Hook features a series of exclusive Seamonster interviews with award-winning underwater photographer, Brian Skerry. Brian has been taking photographs underwater for thirty years and these days you’ll see his pictures regularly gracing the pages of National Geographic Magazine. His new book, Ocean Soul, features a breathtaking selection of his work, displayed in…
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Sand bubbler crabs eat sand, make art
I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent many hours on tropical beaches gazing at the crazy patterns of tiny sand footballs left behind by crabs. Here’s a neat up-close video on them doing it. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6449515[/vimeo] Big HT to Treehugger – head on over there for…
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Na Bula’: Fiji’s Crown of Thorns
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29150652[/vimeo]
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Breaking news: Decline in marine life possibly due to all the s**t in the sea, say experts
The UK’s online newspaper, the Daily Mash, reports the worrying finding that the decline in marine life may in some way be connected to all the shit, piss and bleach pumped in there every single day by everyone in the world. Dr Susan Traherne told the Daily Mash: “As yet, there is no definite causal link…
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Money and the root of all climate change denial
[I started writing this as an addition to a string of interesting and thoughtful comments on John’s excellent post, which questions whether it is really the incompetence of scientists that’s responsible for the failure of this country to recognize climate change. But decided to post it up here instead.] There are a host of factors…
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Could the media possibly be playing a role in the public’s confusion about science?
In case you hadn’t noticed, there is a new science communications meme out there: it is all our fault. Us scientists are too darned unlikable, dorky, literal, cerebral and generally unconnected to our “lower organs”. If we weren’t all these things and simply listened to the self-proclaimed science media gurus, all would be well. The…
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