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Marine Conservation in the News [Google News]

Thanh Nien Daily

Report Shows Greater Peril for World's Threatened Animals, Plants
New York Times
In its latest four-year assessment of endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added several new entries to the Red ...
Group: World failing to halt biodiversity declineThe Associated Press
Wildlife crisis worse than economic crisis – IUCNWorld Sentinel
Wildlife extinction crisis warningThe Press Association

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District Awarded $1.5 Million in Stimulus Funding to Improve ...
PR Web (press release)
In addition to now hosting a fledgling coho population, Salmon Creek is part of the Sonoma Coast State Marine Conservation Area, a State Marine Protected ...

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FIS.com (Registro)

Distinguished Chef & Sustainability Advocate Joins Marine ...
FIS.com (Registro)
... Seaver's passion for inspiring cuisine and seafood sustainability with Blue Ocean's distinctive seafood consumer and marine conservation programs. ...

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WTNH

DEP says "go fish" with
WTNH
The requirement for the marine fish license goes into effect immediately and DEP Environmental Conservation Police will begin checking for licenses ...
Fishing report: Saltwater license takes effectConnecticut Post
Floridians will have to pay for saltwater fishingMiamiHerald.com
Saltwater fishing licenses become state lawTheDay
Hartford Courant -WINKNEWS.com -Charleston Post Courier
all 44 news articles »

Stimulus package funds Alaska marine trash pickup
Juneau Empire
JUNEAU - The Juneau-based Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation got $1 million in stimulus money from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

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Boating safety especially important over holiday weekend
WTVY
As people go from land to water searching for a good time Alabama Marine Police Officer Tommy Haynes will be there keeping a close eye on their safety. ...

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Power Boat - World

Coalition of Conservation Organizations, Scientists Calls on White ...
PR Web (press release)
The Coral Reef Alliance, Greenpeace USA, WWF, Sierra Club, and SeaWeb are among a large coalition of 44 conservation organizations and more than 100 marine ...
Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this ...EurekAlert (press release)
Coral Reef Protection ActWMBB-TV
Saving coral reefs for the futureBig Island Weekly

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State closes 3 North Shore spots to shellfishing
Newsday
The orders, both signed by Bureau of Marine Resources Chief James J. Gilmore, read, in part: "Due to the increased potential for the contamination of ...
DEC Announces Temporary Closure of Three Shellfishing AreasMedia Newswire (press release)

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Marine workshop draws a crowd
Coastline Pilot
Susan Ashcraft, a marine biologist from the California Department of Fish and Game, shows Laguna Beach resident Siggy Johnson, who has lived in the area ...
Surprise Opposition to Council VoteLaguna Beach Independent
Reserve vote an abuse of powerCoastline Pilot

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Queerty

Construction projects at Camp Pendleton and Coronado Naval Base
SDNN: San Diego News Network
Recycled cans at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, where contractors are winning projects for energy conservation. ...
Navy jumpstarts San Diego economy with $2.8 billionSDNN: San Diego News Network

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Global Warming/Climate Change in the News [Google News]

HispanicBusiness.com

Dueling Ads Highlight the Politics of Climate-Change Legislation
New York Times
Groups on both sides of the spectrum have begun hitting the airwaves with new advertisements on climate-change legislation, ...
NRCC Targets 14 House Democrats On Climate Change VoteCQPolitics.com
Protesters say Perriello's vote will cost jobsCharlottesville Daily Progress
Climate vote threatens some Democrats' careersPolitico
Santa Rosa Press Democrat -Gettysburg Times
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Why is the EPA suppressing this global-warming report?
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
APEPA administrator Lisa Jackson: Why won't she release that report skeptical of global-warming? As research for an upcoming column on the many drawbacks of ...
Worst. Rant. Ever. James Inhofe on Global WarmingDaily Kos
Don't wait to act on global warmingLas Vegas Sun
Global warming cover up?Ada Evening News
Switched -Wall Street Journal -Grist Magazine
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BBC News

Sheep Shrinking Each Generation Amid Global Warming
Bloomberg
Climate change has led to a change in the growth rate which has fed through to the fact that the average sheep is now smaller,” study co-author Tim Coulson ...
Climate change causes sheep in Scottish herd to shrinkLos Angeles Times
Soay sheep shrinking in climate changeUnited Press International
Climate change is shrinking sheepBBC News
AFP -Telegraph.co.uk -Independent
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Taking Steps to Fight Global Warming
New York Times
While it's encouraging to see Congress taking steps to reduce global warming, the approach championed at the moment — cap and trade — is fraught with perils ...
Done correctly, ethanol is nearly carbon neutralPost-Bulletin

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The Climate Change Truth
Examiner.com
Back in the 1970's and 1980's it was “global cooling,” in the 1990's and until recently it was “global warming,” and now it is “climate change. ...
Political climate changeHigh Plains Journal

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Media Matters for America

Is Media Helping Advance Obama's Energy Agenda by Spreading Global ...
FOXNews
JUAN WILLIAMS, GUEST HOST: In the "Impact" segment tonight: Is the liberal media helping Barack Obama advance his energy agenda by spreading global warming ...
O'Reilly fill-in Williams provides platform for global warming ...Media Matters for America

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New York Times

Action on climate change
Buffalo News
The climate change bill that narrowly passed the House of Representatives Friday recalls nothing so much as President John F. Kennedy's 1961 call for the ...
House Passes Climate Change LegislationNation's Cities Weekly
House Passes Climate Change Bill; Calls for More Electric Vehicles ...glassBYTEs
Congress' bill on climate change comes up short imate changeNaperville Sun
Farm Futures -Forbes -New York Times
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Climate change: Is it treason to deny global warming?
Seattle Times
How long will The Seattle Times continue to repeat the tired mantras of global-warming believers? While there can be no justification for opposing ...
Climate change lies threaten freedomLas Vegas Sun
Climate-change edition: The Thursday wrapPittsburgh Tribune-Review
Hey, Paul Krugman, Here are 2.4 Billion More Climate TraitorsCounterPunch

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Telegraph.co.uk

DK GreenRoots: ExxonMobil Is Still Funding Global Warming Denial ...
Daily Kos
Exxon is staffed by and supports those who deny the most basic facts of climate change and global warming. In June 2005, White House official Philip Cooney ...
In England, Outrage Over ExxonMobil's Continued Ties to Climate ...Dallas Observer
ExxonMobil funds climate-change scepticsTelegraph.co.uk
Exxon Keeps Funding Anti-Global Warming LobbyistsSoftpedia
Radio Australia News -ABC Online
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Telegraph.co.uk

Franken in Senate Climte Change imlications
Examiner.com
Franken in Senate Climate Change implications. With confirmation of Al Franken from Minnesota, it appears the Democrats have a filibuster proof Senate. ...
Oklahoma Senator Condemns Climate Change, Professional ComediansThe Awl
Franken provides a 60th Democratic vote, but not a panaceaGlobe and Mail

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Coral Reefs in the News [Google News]

Key West Tour Operator Best On Key West Now Featuring Coral Reef ...
OfficialWire (press release)
Best On Key West has added to the tourist's list of things to do in Key West with its new offering of the 30-minute Coral Reef Airplane Tour. ...
Premier Tour Agents, Best On Key West, Now Offering Reef Express ...Free Press Release Center (press release)

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Summer campers interact with coral reefs
Bradenton Herald
The exhibit inside the PAL building on 13th Avenue East focuses on coral reefs and features live interaction with a specially trained science educator at ...

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Power Boat - World

Federal stimulus money to fund restoration of coral reefs
IdahoStatesman.com
MIAMI — An underwater nursery project to restore the struggling coral reefs along Florida's southern coast and the US Virgin Islands will receive $3.3 ...
Saving coral reefs for the futureBig Island Weekly
Coral Reef Protection ActWMBB-TV
Coalition of Conservation Organizations, Scientists Calls on White ...PR Web (press release)
Power Boat - World -Examiner.com -Sun-Sentinel.com
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Sun-Sentinel.com

Economic Stimulus Funding Will Help Restore Threatened Coral Reefs ...
The Nature Conservancy
Stimulus funds will support 57 jobs and expand efforts to restore threatened coral reefs at an “unprecedented” scale. SUGAR LOAF KEY, FLORIDA — June 30, ...
Coral nurserySun-Sentinel.com
Nature Conservancy Project Receives Economic Stimulus Funding to ...The Nature Conservancy

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Embrace Australia

Money to the rescue of Pacific coral
Radio Australia News
Millions of dollars are being devoted to saving coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, including the Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Northern Mariana Islands ...
Australia pledges millions for Great Barrier ReefAFP

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Signs Warn Boaters Don't Anchor on Reef
WFLX Fox 29
The signs remind boaters it's illegal to anchor on a coral reef. They want to make sure boaters who go offshore to watch the fireworks on the Fourth don't ...

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Navy repairs coral reef damaged by Port Royal
NavyTimes.com
AP HONOLULU — The Navy says it has reattached almost 5400 coral colonies damaged when a warship ran aground on a reef off Oahu in February. ...
Navy suspends coral repairsHonolulu Advertiser

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Fresh News

Banning some fishing gear might save reefs
United Press International
A study by the Australian Research Council's Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, located at James Cook University, found the use of certain fishing ...
Ban on certain fishing gear offers 'middle ground'Sustainable Shipping (subscription)
Electrified artificial reef moves forwardMiamiHerald.com

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Who needs scuba gear when glasses will do?
Globe and Mail
This time, Hall and crew head for more exotic waters — coral reefs off the coast of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia, including the Great Barrier ...

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Finding Nemo: Reef Rescue #1
Comic Book Resources
Treating their initial investigation as the first step, Croall returns the characters to the coral reef the next day, this time with Dory ("I speak coral! ...

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Rolf Hicker - Rainbow Productions

Whales in the News [Google News]

BBC News


BBC News

Whale Watching Trumps Whaling
New York Times
When the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was negotiated more than 60 years ago, the main aim was to sustain whale ...
Whaling body skirts divisive Greenland requestReuters
Whaling chief says no guarantee of end to killingThe Associated Press
Whale chief mulls ending hunt banBBC News
Christian Science Monitor -NPR -Wired News -Discover Magazine
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Examiner.com

Scenic flight on a seaplane combined with whale watching makes a ...
Examiner.com
When the plane docks in Friday Harbor, it is just a short walk to San Juan Safaris' comfortable whale watch boat for a three to four hour whale and wildlife ...

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Whaling Museum's new exhibit chronicles an epic chase
SouthCoastToday.com
Photos by PETER PEREIRA/The Standard-Times A skeleton of a sperm whale is the centerpiece of a new exhibit at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. ...
No progress expected in whaling stalematenewjerseynewsroom.com

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Somerset Parks Commission offers Cape Cod whale watching trip
Somerset Reporter
by Somerset staff The Somerset County Park Commission has scheduled a weekend of whale watching and exploration of the natural aquatic Cape Cod, ...

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WNCT

Marina del Rey's resident gray whale heads north, finally
Los Angeles Times
[Marine Animal Rescue founder Peter Wallerstein] said that about 6:30 pm Friday, "something clicked in the whale, where it's time to go." . ...
Whale heads north after lingering off Los AngelesSan Jose Mercury News
Wayward Whale on His Way to Alaska After California VacationDigitalJournal.com
Whale leaves marina near Los Angeles after 3 weeksThe Associated Press
MyFox Los Angeles -Los Angeles Times -Los Angeles Times
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Boston Globe

Whale War between Japanese hunters and Sea Shepherd to escalate
Los Angeles Times
Paul Watson and his ragtag band of whale-loving vegans will remain a proverbial thorn in Japan's side as long as it has funding and, thanks to the ...
A whale warrior comes homeCape Cod Today
More Whale Walkers Needed at Scarborough Sea Life AquariumZoo and Aquarium Visitor News
Greenland asks to raise whale-hunting quotaIceNews
Boston Globe -BigNews.biz (press release) -Great Yarmouth Mercury -Easier (press release)
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BBC News

"Leviathan" whale tale wins UK non-fiction prize
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Hoare's "Leviathan, or The Whale," about the author's obsession with whales and the "Moby-Dick" story, won the 2009 Samuel Johnson ...
Whale tale wins non-fiction prizeBBC News
Whale of a tale wins Britain's top non-fiction prizeCBC.ca
Tale of man's whale obsession wins Samuel Johnson book prize for ...The Canadian Press
This is London -guardian.co.uk -Times Online
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Preservation is center stage at WHALE annual meeting
SouthCoastToday.com
NEW BEDFORD — “Preservation is for Everyone” was the theme of WHALE's 47th Annual Meeting held at the Sky Room at Howland Place. ...

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New York Times

Navy vs. Environmentalists Off Florida Coast
New York Times
NOAA Environmental advocates say a planned naval warfare training range will affect the North Atlantic right whale, among other marine ...

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Dolphins in the News [Google News]

Al-Arabiya

Israeli sub sails Suez, signaling reach to Iran
Reuters
Israel long kept its three Dolphin-class submarines, which are widely assumed to carry nuclear missiles, away from Suez so as not to expose them to the gaze ...
Israel navy resumes sailing in Suez CanalUnited Press International
Israeli submarine carrying nuclear missile heads allowed to pass ...Arab Monitor
Israeli conducts 'nuclear' sub maneuverPRESS TV
??????, ????, ????????? ???, ???????? -DEBKA file
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MiamiHerald.com

Summer Fun Celebration sizzles at Dolphin Mall
MiamiHerald.com
Escape the summer heat at Dolphin Mall with the Summer Fun Celebration through August and enter a contest to win a Nintendo Wii at the information booth at ...

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The Associated Press

Make my day, Flipper: Pesky dolphins under siege
The Associated Press
(AP) — Miles offshore, a fight is raging between angry anglers armed with guns and bombs and bottlenose dolphins, the marine mammals popularized in movies ...

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Dolphin carcass found in Dibrugarh
Times of India
GUWAHATI: The carcass of an endangered Gangetic dolphin calf was found in Dibrugarh district on Friday. Volunteers of dolphin conservation network, ...

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Dolphin details
Sun-Sentinel.com
Size limit: Dolphin must measure 20 inches from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail. Bag limit: The daily recreational limit is 10 per person per ...

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Tango CMS 2.3.0 “Dolphin” released
CMS Critic
A new version of Tango CMS has been made available. The posting on their site highlights that this release has seen a number of new features added. ...

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NY dolphins could mean water is cleaner
Boston Herald
By AP SMITHTOWN, NY — Experts say recent bottlenose dolphin sightings could indicate that water quality has improved in Long Island Sound. ...

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Swan & Dolphin debuts iPhone app
Bizjournals.com
The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort has developed a new application for Apple iPhone that allows users to access in-depth resort information. ...

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Examiner.com

Miss Illinois Outstanding Teen pageant crowns Andrea Novak
Examiner.com
When crowned Outstanding Teen, Andrea received $1300 in savings bonds for future education expenses and an additional $2500 from Dolphin Entertainment for ...

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Wales is going wild about dolphins!
Tivyside Advertiser
Volunteers from the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and a group of lucky dolphin spotters found themselves in the midst of a group of more than 30 ...

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Great White shark

Sharks in the News [Google News]

Fish rap: Thresher shark a hot catch for kayaker
San Jose Mercury News
Caught with a live sardine on a single hook, reports on the weight of the shark vary from 30-60 pounds. It took more than an hour for the kayak angler to ...

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2 nurse sharks released from aquarium into ocean
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Two nurse sharks at the University of Georgia aquarium on Skidaway Island have been given a more spacious home - the Atlantic Ocean. ...

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Fight Hype

SHARK FIGHT PROMOTIONS TO HOST A FREE MMA EVENT
Fight Hype
By Press Release | July 03, 2009 Shark Fight Promotions, a Texas based mixed martial arts fight Promotion Company, recently announced that they will be ...
Official MMA Partner ofMMAjunkie.com

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Examiner.com

Kick off Shark Week; have breakfast with them
Siuslaw News
The Oregon Coast Aquarium and the Discovery Channel will celebrate Shark Week August 2 – August 8 with a variety of events highlighting the fascinating ...
Shark summer, here we come!Examiner.com
Down The Shore: Atlantic City AquariumCBS 3

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Straits Times

Third of All Shark Species Threatened With Extinction
FOXNews
GLAND, Switzerland — A third of all sharks on the high seas are threatened with extinction because they are overfished or killed incidentally in swordfish ...
Shark-Fin Soup, Over-Fishing Threaten Predators With ExtinctionBloomberg
Many sharks 'facing extinction'BBC News
Third of open ocean sharks face extinction: studyAFP
Mongabay.com -RedOrbit -San Francisco Chronicle
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New great white shark haunt to be revealed with conservation in mind
Los Angeles Times
It's a newly discovered white shark aggregation site and news of its existence is sure to pique the interest of scientists and documentary teams. ...

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Bull sharks take to Louisiana swamp
WBXH
Most people have a preconceived notion that sharks are found in the ocean. While that's certainly true, sharks are also being found among the beautiful ...

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Examiner.com

Scientists take the plunge in search for whale sharks
Dallas Morning News
RESULTS Seven whale sharks were identified, and three of the spotted fish were tagged; researchers were able to swim with some of them. ...
Whale Shark Festival – July 2009 at Isla Mujeres, MexicoExaminer.com
Fishing: World's largest shark in Gulf a whale of a sightNaples Daily News
Cancun welcomes new Whale Shark Biosphere ReserveFocus on Travel News

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Shark found in Diversion Canal
WBXH
We're talking about a shark, nearly five feet long. Travis Singleton and his younger brother Dylan were in their boat fishing near Sorrento on the ...

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Sharks' best Buddie
The Paisley Daily Express
THE last thing you expect to find in the middle of a Paisley housing estate is the nerve centre for a shark protection charity. ...
It's Jaws 3 for Weymouth Sea Life workerDorset Echo

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Rolf Hicker - Rainbow Productions

Cephalopods (Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and nautiloids) in the News [Google News]

Physics, Politics, Pop Culture
ScienceBlogs
The Cuttlefish Poetry Prize goes to the Cuttlefish Poet, naturally. Honestly, it was locked up with the first double dactyl entry: The "Queen of Niskayuna" ...

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Games On Deck

Cuttlefish Engine Bridges Development for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
Games On Deck
Cuttlefish Industries announced the upcoming release of the Cuttlefish Engine, a cross-platform game engine and development platform for Apple's iPhone, ...

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Pitch Weekly

GWAR's Oderus Rules the Ring... Maybe
FEARnet.com
Beneath the headline “URUNGUS GRABS VICTORY -- CHOKES TRACY SMOTHERS THE F*** OUT,” the almighty keeper of the Cuttlefish of Cthulhu made it pretty damn ...
GWAR Vocalist Oderus Urungus Grabs VictoryMetal Underground

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(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)
ScienceBlogs
That's not a picture of cuttlefish snogging, that's Jar-jar Binks! Gee, there's never a sith around when you need one. (Email is required for authentication ...

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Squids Named “Best Seafood Restaurant” by Independent Weekly
dBusinessNews Triangle (press release)
For more information on Squids, please visit www.squidsrestaurant.com. For more information on the Independent Weekly's “Best Of the Triangle,” please visit ...

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KIDK

4th of July kickoff
KIDK
Octopuses! Octopi, Dave? Ok... I heard ice cream." And sure enough, she made up her own ice cream song. And the biggest show of the night came at the Civic ...

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VietNamNet Bridge

Hanoi: Cuttlefish freshened with chemicals
VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities on June 29 detected serious violations at Long Bien wholesale market, where frozen cuttlefish has been being treated ...

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what's up

DRUNK TEXTING Companies marketing solutions for growing social problem
what's up
Thankfully, companies such as Cuttlefish Industries are coming up with cell phone programs to prevent drunk texting. Mason McCuskey, lead developer for ...

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Swimming: Squids take first in relay event
The Sanford Herald
MOREHEAD CITY — The Sanford Squids swim team returned from the East Coast Swim League Championship meet with a first-place overall finish in the boys' ...

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Nature House reopens
Comox Valley Record
Learning how to survive in the wild, identifying animal prints and poop, how to exist in nature without leaving a trace, and giant squids are some of the ...

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Oceanography News [EurekAlert!]

G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation funds purchase of state-of-the-art equipment for UM's Rosenstiel School
(University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School has received a gift from the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation. The $950,000 grant will be divided into two parts; $750,000 will be used to purchase a highly sensitive Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) capable of determining the elemental composition of rocks, marine sediments, and ocean water samples, and the remaining $200,000 will support the School's interdisciplinary research projects in climate science and the development of long term environmental data sets.

Ancient Greenland methane study good news for planet, says CU-Boulder scientist
(University of Colorado at Boulder) An analysis of ancient Greenland ice suggests a spike in the greenhouse gas methane about 11,600 years ago originated from wetlands rather than the ocean floor or from permafrost, a finding that is good news according to the University of Colorado at Boulder scientist who led the study.

Study rules out ancient bursts of seafloor methane emissions
(Oregon State University) Measurements made from the largest Greenland ice sample ever analyzed have confirmed that an unusual rise in atmospheric methane levels about 12,000 years ago was not the result of a catastrophic release of seafloor "hydrate deposits," as some scientists had feared.

Sea Grant report synthesizes recent research on New York's clams
(Stony Brook University) New York Sea Grant announces the release of "The Hard Clam Research Initiative: Factors Controlling Mercenaria mercenaria Populations in South Shore Bays of Long Island, NY," a 43-page technical report that summarizes the key results of five research projects funded through NYSG's Hard Clam Research Initiative which began in 1999.

Researchers report 'moderately large' potential for red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine region
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) The potential for an outbreak of the phenomenon commonly called "red tide" is expected to be "moderately large" this spring and summer, according to researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and North Carolina State University.

International honor for University of East Anglia ocean researcher
(University of East Anglia) An environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia has won a prestigious international prize for her outstanding contribution to oceanography.

Increasing Antarctic sea ice extent linked to the ozone hole
(British Antarctic Survey) Increased growth in Antarctic sea ice during the past 30 years is a result of changing weather patterns caused by the ozone hole according to new research published this week.

Increasing carbon dioxide and decreasing oxygen make it harder for deep-sea animals to 'breathe'
(Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute suggest that low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly over the next century. These predictions are based on the fact that, as more and more carbon dioxide dissolves from the atmosphere into the ocean, marine animals will need more oxygen to survive.

'Ocean glider' home after 2-month voyage
(CSIRO Australia) Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two of Australia's most influential ocean currents.

Megadroughts in sub-Saharan Africa normal for the region
(University of Arizona) Devastating droughts worse than the infamous Sahel drought are part of the normal climate regime for sub-Saharan West Africa, according to new research. Scientists have developed the first almost year-by-year record of the last 3,000 years of West Africa's climate. In that period, catastrophic droughts occurred every 30 to 65 years, and the pattern can be expected to continue in the future, the team reports in the April 17 issue of the journal Science.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

CDNN

Divers swim in mysterious San Diego current
San Jose Mercury News
Experts at the nearby Scripps Institution of Oceanography say several other divers noticed it, but the current was not felt on the surface. ...
La Jolla diver recounts 'underwater tornado'Del Mar Times
Mysterious Current Drags Away Divers at La Jolla CoveSan Diego 6
Powerful current takes divers by surpriseSan Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union Tribune
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Abnormal Fish Ear Bones Caused by High CO2 Levels in Ocean
The Epoch Times
The top is smooth (oriented downward) and the bottom is pitted (Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego) Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean ...

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ABC News

Rising CO2 in Oceans May Hurt Fish
KPBS
But a new study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows for the first time that CO2 can impact a fundamental bodily structure in fish. ...
CO2 Causes Massive Ear Bones in Fish The bones are used for ...Softpedia
High Carbon Dioxide Levels Cause Abnormally Large Fish Ear BonesScience Daily (press release)
Ecopocalypse causes giant fish earsRegister
Voice of San Diego -Journal Watch -The Associated Press -Times of the Internet
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Sulfate particles enhance climate warming properties of ...
Newspost Online
... professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. ...

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UC San Diego Professor and Team Map Air Particles
EP Magazine
Lynn Russell, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and her team have sampled air from the tip of the ...
The aerosol end-of-the-pier showspectroscopyNOW.com

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Indiana State University

“A Different World:” ISU voyages to the seafloor
Indiana State University
... who is one of the leaders of the team that includes scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and California Institute of Technology. ...

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ScienceDude

Popular OC gamefish holds clues to climate change effects
ScienceDude
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego have found that when white sea bass eggs are grown under very high carbon dioxide levels, ...

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Voice of San Diego

The Authority on Water: Questions for Maureen Stapleton
Voice of San Diego
Tim Barnett at Scripps Institution of Oceanography likes to say that climate change isn't something that you wake up one day and say: Aha! ...

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Hanging out in La Jolla
Las Vegas Review - Journal
... along breathtaking beaches but also culture at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and science at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ...

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Fish get an earful from carbon dioxide in sea
Independent Online
Researchers aimed to find out whether the ear enlargement was harmful to the fish, said David Checkley of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in ...

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» Moon probe returns first images
The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft sends back its first images since reaching the Moon.
» No safe haven for rarest antelope
Hopes are dashed that some of the few remaining hirola antelope have managed to colonise new, safer territory.
» New dinosaurs found in Australia
Three new dinosaur species are found in Queensland, Australia, and named after the Outback song Waltzing Matilda.
» Climate change is shrinking sheep
Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research in the journal Science.
» Planck achieves ultra-cold state
Europe's Planck telescope reaches its operating temperature, making it the coldest object in space.
» Amur tigers on 'genetic brink'
The world's largest cat is down to an effective wild population of fewer than 35 individuals, new research has found.
» World 'still losing biodiversity'
Species around the world are still being lost despite governments pledging action to reverse the trend, a report warns.
» Ariane lofts biggest 'space bird'
TerreStar-1, the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite, is put in orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket.
» How honeybee mobs smother giant hornets to death
Bees smother hornets in a "bee ball" that kills the giant predators with heat and carbon dioxide.
» UK-born astronauts are to receive a commemorative pin
The five British-born individuals who have flown in space are being honoured with a commemorative pin.

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