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Lobster Dieoffs Linked to Plastic Pollution, Including Bisphenol A

Image via UConn We know plastic pollution in the oceans is causing problems among marine life, including becoming a food source that is anything but nourishing. Plastic pieces are snapped up as food by birds, fish, turtles and other wildlife, only to eventually kill them — as well as work farther up the food chain as larger animals eat smaller ones that have ingested plastics. But this is far from the only impact plastics are having on ocean wildlife. Even crustaceans are feeling the pain of foreign che… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Massive Growth in UK Solar Jobs

Image credit: Solarcentury It seems like the UK solar industry is on fire right now. No sooner was the renewables feed-in tariff approved , than solar installers were inundated with inquiries from would-be customers , and we’ve even seen plans announced for the country’s first utility-scale solar plants . Now there’s further evidence … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean’s Tiny Carbon "Vacuum Cleaners" More Important to Carbon Capture Than We Thought

Image via Wikipedia If you’re a beach goer, you might recognize those little crystal- clear blobs that often wash up on the sand in the mornings as salps. While often mistaken for jellyfish, they’re actually the ocean’s “vacuum cleaners,” sucking up all kinds of particles as food and excreting carbon-rich pellets that sink to the sea floor. Researchers know that the fairly benign creatures are actually quite important for carbon capture and storage in the oceans , but recent discoveries on what they eat show … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Turtles Return to Malaysia But Face An Uncertain Future

Photo by syntheticaperture Green turtles have been battling habitat loss, the dangers of fishermen , and pollution in a loosing battle for decades, and in Malaysia they’ve faced a take-over of their beaches by tourists and egg-plunderers. Still, there’s been a shift in their luck, albeit a precarious one. Green turtles are returning to Malaysia in the hundreds, but experts say that if the destruction of their habitat isn’t stopped im… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bold Beachgoers Save a Stranded Great White Shark

Photo: Ruth Fahey At sea, sharks are one of the most fearsome and cunning predators on the planet — but on land, even they need a helping hand sometimes. In a rare putting aside of differences, last week a surfer came to the aid of a Great White shark that had become stranded onshore. Risking life, and especially limb, he and another beachgoer worked tirelessly to return the ten foot long shark to the ocean. The brave rescue caught the attention of a photographer, who thought at firs… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean Noise Pollution Leads Baby Fish Away From Good Habitat

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Torpedo-Shaped Robot Deployed for Arctic Marine Life Exploration

Image via Live Science Its name is Bluefin, which holds several meanings from homage to the endangered bluefin tuna that represents all we’re doing wrong in our fishing industry to the fact that it’s going into frigid waters to explore Arctic marine life. The robot, or more appropriately, the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), is central to a unique study to collect samples of the critters living in water too cold for humans to explore in other ways. Researchers are hoping that the specialized tools and techniques used by Bluefin … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Historic Marine Life Census Counts Over 250,000 Species

Photo Credit: I. MacDonald Back in February, we were excited to know that the Census of Marine Life — a massive undertaking of accounting for all live in the ocean — had started to wrap up . But details on findings were still under wraps. Just yesterday the researchers finally released a report of the marine life found in 25 key areas of the world, with over 10,000 species in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Creates National Ocean Council to Oversee Protection of Our Oceans, Coasts & Great Lakes

photo: Shannon Bullard/ Go San Diego Card Blog via flickr President Obama has signed an executive order adopting the final recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force , creating a National Ocean Council charged with overseeing national policy providing stewardship over the United Sta… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientist Solves Mystery of Fertile Persian Gulf

A dust storm over the Persian Gulf. Image via NASA Earth Observatory On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert -dwellers’ existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters, according to an Arab biologist who believes he’s solved the mystery of why the

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