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What We Don’t Know About the Ocean Can Kill Us

Jo aboard the Plastiki; Photos via The Plastiki Guest post by Jo Royle, Skipper on the Plastiki ‘The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides’ – Jules Vern, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. I think most of us feel an emotional tie to the oceans. Most of us breathe a sigh of relief or relaxation as soon as we set eyes upon the deep blue wilderness, a feeling of coming home. My childhood mem… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Elephant Seals Recruited to Track Ocean Health for Scientists

Photo credit: Joachim Plötz, Alfred Wegener Institute Bull elephant seals are well known for their size and earth-shaking fights during mating season. But what is also notable about them is their long trips to sea. Every year from March to April the males of the only reproduction colony of the Southern elephant seal in the Antarctic come to the South Shetland Islands for moulting, after which they return to sea and don’t come to land again until six months later for mating season in the Antarctic spring. This year during the tiny window of time that the b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rome’s Trashiest Hotel Built With 12 Tons of Litter

Photo via Fast Company It may look like the perfect vacation getaway for say, Oscar the Grouch, but the first trash-built hotel is attracting some upper-crust, non-muppet clientele. Constructed on the banks of the Tiber in Rome, just across the river from Vatican City, the temporary hotel was designed to highlight the growing problems of litter that collects on Europe’s beaches –12 tons of which make up the building’s walls. Unlike the

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Transplanting Coral As a Cheap, Easy Way to Restore Reefs?

Photo via NOAA Could restoring damaged reefs be as easy as super gluing corals to new shelves and ledges? Perhaps so, according to research done by Dr. Graham Forrester from the University of Rhode Island, and a team of scientists, students and locals who worked to restore a dead reef in White Bay in the British Virgin Islands. After focusing on a specific variety of elkhorn coral often damaged during storms, they found that after transplanted, corals reattached themselves after three months and after 4 years had become large adult corals. Dr. Forrester thinks that perh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cartoonist Explains the Pacific Garbage Patch With Talking Sealife (Slideshow)

Photo by poolie So just how does garbage get from your hand all the way out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it swirls in a soup of trashy debris — or if not there, then to one of the 4 other trash gyres in the oceans across the globe? Cartoonist Jim Toomey decided to send two of his characters off on an adventure to show you in the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon . The journey starts in the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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On Celebrating Everyday Heros to Save Our Oceans

Photo by markey weiss Guest post by Philippe Cousteau I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. “Progress!” I thought to myself with satisfaction. Then I watched in horror as she first placed her purchases into several plastic bags and then placed those into the reusable bag. As I walked out of the store I realized two things, the good news is that we are making progress (at least she had a reusable bag… the bad news is we clearly … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TED Talk: Ocean Photographer Brian Skerry Reveals Amazing Images (Video)

Image via TED video TED’s Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos put some of the best scientists and advocates of the oceans in one place to discuss what’s happening to our seas – the good and the bad. But a picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, so the TED Talk given by photographer Brian Skerry holds a particularly hefty weight. In fact, he even states that he wanted to make his photographic endeavors more like war photography, with harder-hitting pictur… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hooray! Hawaii Outlaws Shark Fin Soup

Shark fin soup can even be found canned, in Chinatown in Honolulu. Photo via istolethetv Shark fin soup is one of the primary reasons why sharks are disappearing from our oceans at frightening rates. The nearly tasteless fins are carved from live sharks – their bodies tossed overboard to drown – and sold for huge bucks. A single bowl of shark fin soup can go for as much as $150. But the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wretched Excess Dept: a Lamborghini in the Living Room

Koichi Torimura Some people love their cars, so much that they wish they could be in their living room. But what if you have nine of them? Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida had such a client, who also said “Oh, and the living room needs a tall tree.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Noise Pollution Harms Fish Populations, Locations, Habits

Photo by Puliarf Whales aren’t the only marine species negatively affected by human-generated noise pollution in the oceans. Sound is an important, and well developed sense in many fish, more species of which are being threatened by the increase in noise made by oil and gas rigs, ships, boats and sonar. In a new review, scientists look at how the rise in sounds over the last hundred years as humans have taken to the oceans has impacte… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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