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Training to Swim the English Channel: The Waiting Game

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Free Nature Pictures Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute , a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for Earthwatch initiatives. I wasn’t far off the mark when I described my swim as a labor of sorts. I’m more than three weeks overdue and practically bursting with anticipation. Tide and time may wait for no man, but they will hold you to an uncertain vigil, checking the

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First Hourglass Dolphin in 150 Years Found on New Zealand Shores

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Massey University When Dr. Karen Stockin, a marine ecologist at Massey University in New Zealand, was called in to perform an autopsy , she was expecting to find a carcass of the relatively common dusky dolphin. Instead, she was surprised to see that it was, in fact, an hourglass dolphin—the first to wash up on the shores of New Zealand in more than 150 years…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First Time

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via SkyTruth We know that bottom trawling — the practice of dragging a net across the sea floor to collect anything and everything in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Project Restores Gulf Habitat, One Mile of Oysters At a Time

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo Credit: Beth Young, via The Nature Conservancy It’s called the 100-1000 partnership — 100 miles of new oyster reefs and 1,000 miles of re-planted marshlands in coastal Alabama, thanks to a coalition of non-profits, including Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, The Nature Conservancy and The Ocean Foundation. Because of the damage done to marshlands, oyster reef habitats and seagrass beds through human activities — the most recent of which is of course the Gulf oil disaster — fisheries have suffered. But the coalition and its ” 100-1000 partnership ” aims to bring back the buffers that … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lady Snails Found Growing Penises (On Their Heads)

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Peter J. Bryant A shockingly high percentage of female sea snails off the coast of Perth, Australia , have been found with a troubling new feature – penises growing from their heads! Researchers say that at one point, 100 percent of the snail species Thais orbita were found with the male appendage, and that the anti-fouling chemical TBT was to blame. As if these thorny new adornments weren’t problem enough, it just might determine

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West Virginia Football Uniforms To Honor Coal, Fallen Miners

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via Nike In an attempt to honor the 29 coal miners who tragically died last year at the Upper Big Branch coal mine , the West Virginia University Mountaineers have teamed up with Nike to create new football uniforms that have the mark of coal. The uniforms are white, but have coal dust on the pants and shoulders. The yellow strip on the hemet is said to represent a miner’s headlamp. In the photo featuring the new uniform a player appears to be emerging from a strip mine, leav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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South Carolina’s Southern Fried Fuel

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Sara Novak Down here in South Carolina we’re known for our southern fried chicken, but what about our southern fried fuel? In a move that could have a big time impact on the way Carolina views the deep fat fryer, city council officials are calling on local restaurants and residents to donate their cooking oil to be turned into biofuel to run the city’s garbage trucks. Right now it’s just a test run on one of the city’s trucks, but if it’s successful, it could make a dent in the city’s garbage pickup carbon footprint. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First-Ever Baby Seahorse Spotted in British Waters

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A tiny baby seahorse was measured off the coast of Dorset, England. Image via the Seahorse Trust . It must have been like finding a needle in a haystack, but somehow, in murky water conditions, diver Neil Garrick-Maidment, the executive director of the Seahorse Trust , spotted a single 1.5-inch-long female baby seahorse “clinging onto a piece of seagrass” off the coast of Studland, Dorset — a finding so rare he said it was “akin to seeing a

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Marine Stewardship Council’s Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenpeace Argentina Makes Procter & Gamble Take Charge For Tons Of Used Batteries

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Courtesy of Greenpeace Argentina. Some may argue that Greenpeace has its twisted ways, but sometimes they just nail it. In Argentina, last year there was a huge controversy over a used batteries recycling program by the Buenos Aires government: essentially they were collecting them without a clear plan on what to do with this highly toxic waste, and when a province from the interior of the country said they were not taking them into their landfills, well, they were left with tons … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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