SeaMonster blog
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Underwater “Paper Parks”?
From this week’s Nature: “The easiest way to create a nature reserve from a car park is simply to declare it as such. The land is then designated as protected, and counts towards the relevant government’s targets to set aside a certain amount of its territory from development. That is a ridiculous example, of course,…
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Demon Fish gets the Book Hook treatment
To launch Seamonster’s brand spanking new Book Hook, I chat with journalist, author, and shark enthusiast Juliet Eilperin about her recent book Demon Fish. In it she explores the world of sharks, the fishers who catch them for food and for fun, the campaigners trying to persuade people to kick the shark-fin habit, and the scientists…
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Welcome to Book Hook
Get hooked on a book at the Seamonster’s brand new online celebration of the oceans in words. Here at Seamontser we’ve built a new shelf (a continental shelf perhaps?) and in upcoming posts we’ll be filling it up with some of our favourite oceans books, old and…
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The Man U climate model
A plot of global temperatures and the Manchester United Climate Model reveals that half of global warming is the result of Manchester United. Read about it and similar (non-satirical) arguments by climate change deniers here. HT to Kat.
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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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Fishy labels for seafood
Living on earth covers this important topic in marine conservation. Excerpts from the online transcript are below. Listen to the program here. Also see more of our coverage of this topic here and read about a recent publication that found evidence of mislabeled fish with the MSC label here. Today we launch a new series: Go…
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Wave your claws in the air…
… like you just don’t care. Remember the Yeti crab? That fuzzy pawed deep sea denizen that revealed itself to science a few years ago and got given the name Kiwa hirsuta? Well, meet it’s newly-discovered cousin, Kiwa puravida. This chap has gone one step further down the weeeeird sea animals pathway. It’s not just hairy but…
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Surfing and Sharks
‘A film about close encounters in South Africa’ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32777934[/vimeo] From the Surfing and Sharks website: Every year in June the ocean swells to it’s peak, hosting the countries largest surf conditions and also becomes host to the sardine run bringing together a huge marine bio-diversity including many species of sharks. This documentary goes up close with…
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Dancing Belugas!
In celebration of the defeat of the dark lord of Alaska, we bring back the dancing white whales: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_6-IwMPjM&[/youtube]
Got any book recommendations?