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Marine Conservation in the News
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Dives Into Ocean Conservation Earthtimes (press release) Fairmont Hotels & Resorts' dedication to the environment goes well beyond marine conservation. The luxury hotel brand maintains a comprehensive commitment ... |
 Audubon Magazine (blog) | Great Whites Vs. Giant Squids? Audubon Magazine (blog) ... and giant squids—a connection marine ecologist Michael Domeier from the Marine Conservation Science Institute made recently—elicits strong reactions. ... |
 New York Times (blog) | The Cove Director Louie Psihoyos Goes After Santa Monica Sushi Restaurant Paste Magazine ... of he Department of Commerce specializing in marine conservation) and the United States attorney in Los Angeles began looking into the allegations. ... Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates Santa Monica sushi restaurant charged with illegally selling whale meat Pennywise frontman protests restaurant's use of whale meat |
 Popular Fidelity (blog) | Leviathans may battle in remote depths Los Angeles Times For more reserved scientists, the possible link between sharks and squid, suggested by marine ecologist Michael Domeier of the Marine Conservation Science ... Sharks Fight Squid For Ocean Dominance Great white sharks' migration more complex than once thought Sharks and Squids: Battling Leviathans of the Deep |
 New York Daily News | The Cove - My Reaction to the Academy Award Winning Documentary About - News & Issues (blog) I urge all of you who have interest in protecting marine life and marine conservation to see The Cove and the consider supporting the organization dedicated ... Arguments Against Dolphin Slaughter 'The Cove' Director Brings New Project to Tarantino Partner |
 Baltimore Sun | Endangered Status Proposed for US Loggerhead Sea Turtles Center for Biological Diversity (press release) Turtle Island Restoration Network is an international marine conservation organization headquartered in California whose 10000 members work to protect sea ... US says sea turtles endangered Agencies recommend endangered status for loggerheads US moves to list loggerhead turtles as endangered |
 Mother Nature Network | Oil and the Falklands: How Argentina can win the argument Mother Nature Network Argentina is to marine conservation what the Amazon is to terrestrial. Its long coastline boasts some of the world's best sites for marine mammals and ... |
Suit Launched to Challenge Federal Financing of Foreign Fossil Fuel Project Common Dreams (press release) Turtle Island Restoration Network is an international marine conservation organization headquartered in California whose 10000 members work to protect sea ... |
Call for world's largest marine reserve Surfbirds News ... including The Chagos Conservation Trust, The Linnean Society of London, The Marine Conservation Society, the Pew Environment Group, The Royal Botanic ... UK Poised to Designate World's Largest Marine Reserve |
Google Earth Launches Marine Tour With PEW Fellows Huffington Post (blog) Just released is a Google Earth tour by the Pew Environment Group to introduce the 2010 Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation that guides you through ... |
Marine Biology News
Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture
A 10-year effort by a scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders that could provide a boost to the commercial aquaculture industry.
How sea turtle hatchlings use their flippers to move quickly on sand
Researchers conducted the first field study showing how endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings use their limbs to move quickly on a variety of terrains in order to reach the ocean.
Scientists discover 600 million-year-old origins of vision
By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing, scientists have made a discovery in understanding the origins of human vision.
'Globetrotting' new worms discovered on Great Barrier Reef and Swedish coast
Between the grains of sand on the sea floor there is an unknown and unexplored world. Scientists have just found new animal species on the Great Barrier Reef, in New Caledonia, and in the sea off the Gullmarsfjord in the Swedish county of Bohuslan.
Deep sedimentation of acantharian cysts: a reproductive strategy?
Spore-like reproductive cysts of enigmatic organisms called acantharians rapidly sink from surface waters to the deep ocean in certain regions, according to new research. Scientists suspect that this is part of an extraordinary reproductive strategy, which allows juveniles to exploit a seasonal food bonanza.
Warming coastal water, thinning marine populations: Tracking of 2010 El Niño reveals marine life reductions
The ongoing El Niño of 2010 is affecting north Pacific Ocean ecosystems in ways that could affect the West Coast fishing industry, according to scientists. Researchers report a stronger than normal northward movement of warm water up the Southern California coast, a high sea-level event in January and low abundances of plankton and pelagic fish -- all conditions consistent with El Niño.
Mercurial tuna: Study explores sources of mercury to ocean fish
With concern over mercury contamination of tuna on the rise and growing information about the health effects of eating contaminated fish, scientists would like to know exactly where the pollutant is coming from and how it's getting into open-ocean fish species.
Hydrothermal vents discovered off Antarctica
Scientists have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.
Participation important for healthy marine parks
The involvement of locals is a key ingredient in the success of marine parks which protect coral reefs and fish stocks. The largest-scale study to date of how coastal communities influence successful outcomes in marine reserves has found that human population pressure was a critical factor in whether or not a reserve succeeded in protecting marine resources -- but so too was local involvement in research and management.
Creating a dream breed: New way to farm prized Blackspot seabream fish
Blackspot seabream is a prized fish on many tables but it grows slowly at sea, is heavily overfished and is incredibly difficult to farm. No European company had successfully bred it until one Galician company teamed up with local partner and Norwegian nutritionists to develop a new method.
Sea squirt offers hope for Alzheimer's sufferers
Plaques and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer's patients mark its slow, inexorable progression. Finding new drugs to prevent plaques is currently the best hope for sufferers. However, efficient drug screens that detect plaque formation are often impossible due to their slow formation. Researchers have now identified the sea squirt, our closest invertebrate relative, as a potential new resource for drug development.
Red tide: Researchers issue outlook for a significant New England bloom of a toxic alga in 2010
Scientists have issued an outlook for a significant regional bloom of a toxic alga that can cause 'red tides' in the spring and summer of this year, potentially threatening the New England shellfish industry. This year's bloom could be similar to the major red tides of 2005 and 2008.
Marine spatial planning: A more balanced approach to ocean management
The old balkanized approach to ocean management, in which different resources and activities are governed by different laws and agencies, has failed to protect ocean ecosystems or reduce conflicts between ocean users, a panel of international scientists says. It should be replaced with a more balanced approach using marine spatial planning.
Endangered Species Research publishes theme section on biologging science
Biologging -- the use of miniaturized electronic tags to track animals in the wild -- has revealed previously unknown information about a wide variety of ocean animals. Biologging science is showing researchers how animals work in the furthest reaches of the ocean environs. A collection of papers on Biologging Science is being published in the scientific journal Endangered Species Research, which features a wide array of cutting-edge biologging research from around the world.
Ancient corals hold new hope for reefs
Fossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today's human activity. Reef ecosystems were able to persist through massive environmental changes imposed by sharply falling sea levels during previous ice ages, an international scientific team has found. This provides new hope for their capacity to endure the increasing human impacts forecast for the 21st century.
Understanding global climate change through new breakthroughs in polar research
Scientists have investigated the distribution and abundance of Antarctica's vast marine biodiversity with the Census of Antarctic Marine Life.
Barnacles prefer upwelling currents, enriching food chains in the Galapagos
The barnacle, a key thread in the marine food web, was thought to be missing along rocky coasts dominated by upwelling. Now a research team has found the opposite to be true: Barnacle populations thrive in vertical upwelling zones in moderately deep waters in the Galapagos Islands.
Giant plankton-eating fishes roamed prehistoric seas, fossil evidence shows
Giant plankton-eating fishes roamed the prehistoric seas for over 100 million years before they were wiped out in the same event that killed off the dinosaurs, new fossil evidence has shown.
Dolphin cognitive abilities raise ethical questions, says Emory neuroscientist
Many modern dolphin brains are significantly larger than those of humans and second in mass to the human brain when corrected for body size, says a scientist. Some dolphin brains exhibit features correlated with complex intelligence, including a large expanse of neocortical volume that is more convoluted than that of humans, extensive insular and cingulated regions, and highly differentiated cellular regions. This has ethical and policy considerations.
Climate change and coral reefs: Coral species has developed the 'skills' to cope with rising temperatures
Marine reserves are increasingly important for species that are being forced by climate change to move to a new home, adapt to new conditions or die. Biologists have now compared the relative benefits of large and small protected areas in perpetuating populations. Interestingly they have also found a coral species that has developed the "skills" to cope with rising temperatures.
Long-reigning microbe controlling ocean nitrogen shares the throne
Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.
How can accidental captures of loggerhead turtles be reduced?
Scientists have studied interactions between the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and fishing gear such as longline hooks used at the water surface, mass beachings, and the effects of climate change on these animals. In order to reduce captures of this marine species without causing economic losses for fishermen, the scientists are proposing that fishing in the summer should only be carried out by night and in areas more than 35 nautical miles from land.
Fishery management practices for beluga sturgeon must change, experts urge
A first-of-its-kind study of a Caspian Sea beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) fishery demonstrates current harvest rates are four to five times higher than those that would sustain population abundance. The study's results suggest that conservation strategies for beluga sturgeon should focus on reducing the overfishing of adults rather than heavily relying upon hatchery supplementation.
World-class protection boosts Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced there five years ago, according to a comprehensive new study published.
Will coral reefs disappear?
How vulnerable are coral reefs to climate change due to higher ocean temperatures?
Dolphins could be ideal model to study human cervical cancer, veterinarians say
Dolphins are the only species besides humans known to harbor infections of multiple papillomavirus types, which are known to be linked with cervical cancer in women. As a result, dolphins may be the ideal model for the study of cervical cancer in women.
Link between marine algae and whale diversity over last 30 million years, study finds
New research shows a strong link between the diversity of organisms at the bottom of the food chain and the diversity of mammals at the top. Throughout the last 30 million years, changes in the diversity of whale species living at any given time period correlates with the evolution and diversification of diatoms, tiny, abundant algae that live in the ocean.
Damage to threatened Gulf of California habitats can be reversed
Once described by Jacques Cousteau as the "world's aquarium," the marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California are under threat. Destructive new fishing methods are depleting the sea's habitats, creating areas that are ghosts of their former existences.
Diversity of corals, algae in warm Indian Ocean suggests resilience to future global warming
Corals that harbor unusual species of symbiotic algae have been discovered thriving in water that is too warm for most other corals. The discovery gives hope that coral reefs and the ecosystems they support may persist -- at least in some places -- in the face of global warming.
Dolphins' health shed light on human and ocean health
New research suggests that diseases found in dolphins are similar to human diseases and can provide clues into how human health might be affected by exposure to contaminated coastal water or seafood.
New discovery: Plaice fish are spotted (on the inside)
Have you seen a spotted plaice? Probably. Marine biologists have now studied the spotted insides of plaice.
Marine reserves in the spotlight: Meeting both conservation and fisheries goals
Marine reserves are known to be effective conservation tools when they are placed and designed properly. This week, a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is dedicated to the latest science on marine reserves, with a focus on where and how reserves can most effectively help to meet both conservation and fisheries goals.
The carbon cycle before humans: New studies provide clearer picture of how carbon cycle was dramatically affected long ago
Two new studies contribute new clues as to what drove large-scale changes to the carbon cycle nearly 100 million years ago. Both research teams conclude that a massive amount of volcanic activity introduced carbon dioxide and sulfur into the atmosphere, which in turn had a significant impact on the carbon cycle, oxygen levels in the oceans and marine plants and animals. Oxygen levels dropped so low that one-third of marine life died.
Barley protein concentrate could replace fishmeal in aquaculture feeds
Scientists have developed a barley protein concentrate that could be fed to trout and other commercially produced fish.
Marine protected areas: A solution for saving the penguin
Researchers have shown that closing fishing zones in the ocean has a beneficial effect on Cape penguins, an endangered species endemic to Southern Africa that feeds exclusively on fish.
Beyond the abyss: Deep sea creatures build their homes from materials that sink from near the ocean surface
Evidence from the Challenger Deep -- the deepest surveyed point in the world's oceans -- suggests that tiny single-celled creatures called foraminifera living at extreme depths of more than ten kilometers build their homes using material that sinks down from near the ocean surface.
Sustainable fisheries needed for global food security
Increased aid from developed countries, earmarked specifically for sustainable seafood infrastructure in developing countries, could improve global food security, according to a new policy paper.
Mass extinctions: 'Giant' fossils are revolutionizing current thinking
Large-sized gastropods dating from only 1 million years after the greatest mass extinction of all time, the Permian-Triassic extinction, have been discovered by an international team of researchers. These specimens call into question the existence of a "Lilliput effect", the reduction in the size of organisms inhabiting postcrisis biota, normally spanning several million years.
Will earlier springs throw nature out of step?
The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a new study. The research is the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment so far of long-term changes in the seasonal timing of biological events across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments in the UK.
'Boutique' fish farms created for Ugandans to combat Lake Victoria's depleted fish supplies
In a unique project to combat depleted fish supplies in Lake Victoria, researchers have established 'boutique' fish farms in small villages around the Lake's shore in Uganda.
Commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations, new study finds
Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean, according to a new study by researchers in Israel.
Seabed biodiversity of the Straits of Magellan and Drake Passage
A study of animals visible to the naked eye and living in and on the seabed -- the "macrobenthos" -- of the Straits of Magellan and Drake Passage will help scientists understand the biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of the Magellanic region.
Water movements can shape fish evolution
Researchers have found that the hydrodynamic environment of fish can shape their physical form and swimming style.
Is iron from soil a factor in algal blooms?
Scientists are studying the part that iron from Australia's iron-rich soil plays in the algal blooms that plague parts of the eastern coast line during summer.
New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a "primordial soup" of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the "soup" theory has been overturned in a pioneering article which claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life.
Fossils show earliest animal trails
Trails found in rocks dating back 565 million years are thought to be the earliest evidence of animal locomotion ever found. The newly-discovered fossils, from rocks in Newfoundland in Canada, were analysed by an international team. They identified over 70 fossilised trails indicating that some ancient creatures moved, in a similar way to modern sea anemones, across the seafloors of the Ediacaran Period.
Marine lab hunts subtle clues to environmental threats to blue crabs
Researchers are at work trying to identify the clues that will finger specific, yet elusive, environmental threats to the Atlantic blue crab.
Searching for cadmium in the ocean: Marine scientists investigate micro-nutrients in the Atlantic
They are invisible and very difficult to measure but no life in the oceans would be possible without them. They are trace metals, such as cadmium, copper or iron, dissolved in seawater. Their precise origin and distribution in the world’s ocean, in particular in the deep sea, are not well known. Now, an international research program aims to close this gap of knowledge.
Global Warming/Climate Change in the News
 USA Today | American Public's Concern About Global Warming Keeps Decreasing FOXNews A new Gallup poll indicates public concerns over global warming continue to drop. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed believe the ... Poll: Americans More Skeptical About Global Warming Fewer Americans worry about global warming and believe it's real More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll |
 Citizen | Interior: Climate change threatens migratory birds The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and ... Climate change pushing bird species 'towards extinction:' US All American oceanic birds threatened by climate change, research finds Birds and climate change |
 CBC.ca | The best argument against global warming San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Perhaps you don't understand there's no such thing as man-made global warming. I don't care if you call it f!@%$#%@ing climate change, I don't f! ... Scientists take another run at climate change Independent review of IPCC and its global warming reports: an answer to critics Trusting science on climate change |
 Reuters | Political ads: new weapon in US climate change war? Reuters Legislation to battle global warming is stalled in the US Senate and there is growing pessimism that a law can be passed before November's elections. ... |
 Reuters AlertNet (blog) | New UN Climate Change Group is All Male New York Times (blog) The group's task is to allocate funds to developing countries to help mitigate the impact of climate change. “It includes equal representation between ... A planet of men? Since when? |
What's the Proper Role of Individuals and Institutions in Addressing Climate ... Huffington Post (blog) But what really is the proper role for individuals and institutions in addressing climate change? An immediate and natural response may be that everyone ... |
Climate change poses health hazards for Chicago Medill Reports: Chicago Global warming is causing climate change meaning warming and changes in weather patterns.” The US Global Change Research Program report also detailed how ... Santee Education Complex to Participate in Global Debates on Climate Change |
Lawmakers Consider Federal Disaster Insurance Amid Threat of Climate Change ... Clean Skies News As world climate negotiators hammer out details of funding global climate change adaptation, US lawmakers are considering to what extent taxpayers should be ... |
Grassroots Opposition to Climate Change Bill Delivered to Senate Farm Bureau News WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2010 – The American Farm Bureau Federation's successful, six-month campaign to oppose cap-and-trade climate change legislation, ... |
 KSL-TV | Utah Legislature: Rally at Capitol urges lawmakers to address climate change Deseret News Gary Herbert to reverse any positions they've taken that assert climate change is not man-caused. The rally included the introduction of a letter with more ... Utah House resources Rep and former SLC Mayor debate climate change Students protest climate change bills at Capitol |
Coral Reefs in the News
ALL ABOUT THE GREAT BARRIER REEF CAIRNS AUSTRALIA Gather.com It is the Great Barrier Reef, the state Icon of Queensland Australia.Here are some of the most interesting facts about the largest coral Reef in the world. ... Big environmental savings from Reef Rescue program Local aquarium garners global attention Great Barrier Reef shark 'car wash' on video |
 France24 | New Caledonia taps Australia for reef protection AFP CANBERRA — New Caledonia on Wednesday enlisted Australia's help to protect its massive coral reef, the world's second biggest after the Great Barrier Reef. ... Australia to help protect New Caledonian reef New Caledonia seeks Australian help for reef protection New Caledonia Asks Australia For Reef Help |
Coral reefs face new El Niño threat Manila Bulletin “These coral reefs damaged by bleaching are still recovering, particularly in Apo Reef,” Yan said in an interview. “It is possible that the bleaching of ... |
 TravelVideo.tv (press release) | Divers and Snorkelers to Eggsplore the Florida Keys Coral Reef! TravelVideo.tv (press release) ... head out to a secret location on one of the Keys' pristine reefs to allow revelers to seek the sunken hard-boiled treasures during the two-tank trip. ... |
Daytime is right time for kid-friendly entertainment in Vegas San Jose Mercury News The 2.5 million-gallon Dolphin Habitat has four linked pools with a sand floor and artificial coral reef designed to mimic the bottlenose dolphins' natural ... |
 MiamiHerald.com | January freeze killed acres of Fla. coral UPI.com The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary has suspended scientific permits for collection of coral and is encouraging divers to head for artificial reefs ... Cold Weather Blamed for Coral Deaths Cold weather kills large swaths of Florida Keys coral |
 Miller-McCune.com | Installing Meters at the Beach Miller-McCune.com In other parts of the world, beaches face extinction from an unexpected problem with a more elusive solution: coral reef degradation. ... |
Reef Check Australia Volunteer Training Course My Sunshine Coast (press release) Our trained surveyors have the opportunity to learn new skills, contribute coral reef conservation efforts and dive on survey teams for free! ... |
CBC.ca | What effects will climate change have on wildlife? ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) Since the 1980s, coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean have suffered massive declines due to disease. It is likely that coral mortalities were initially ... Independent body to review climate panel |
New Caledonia taps Australia for reef protection ?????? CANBERRA -- New Caledonia on Wednesday enlisted Australia's help to protect its massive coral reef, the world's second biggest after the Great Barrier Reef. ... |
Whales in the News
New York Times (blog) | What does whale taste like? - Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine Slate Hump restaurant has been accused of serving illegal sei whale meat A Santa Monica, Calif., ... Santa Monica sushi restaurant caught serving endangered whale Sushi chef, restaurant charged with serving endangered whale LA Restaurant, Sushi Chef Charged With Serving Whale Meat |
 ABC Online | Not whaling but drowning Economist IF YOU'RE tempted by a slab of meat gristle which surrenders little but an ooze of grease when chewed, then you'll love whale. Add to the sensory experience ... Japan set to arrest anti-whaling activist: reports Japanese protest for whaling outside NZ embassy Whaling on trial (part 2) |
Your Chilean Sea Bass Dinner Deprives Killer Whales Wired News A one-of-a-kind killer whale population appears to be threatened by human appetites for Antarctic toothfish, better known to ... The Cougar Print Online: Killer Whale Murders His Trainer...Again Why...do we have a cemetery on campus? |
Links: Leonardo da Vinci, Action Hero; Serving Whale Will Land You in Jail BlackBook Magazine [Jezebel] ? A restaurant in Los Angeles gets busted for illegally serving whale. [Gakwer] ? Take a peak inside the graphic novel version of Pride and ... |
Chef accused of serving illegal whale Kansas City Star (blog) It's pretty sad -- the whale was only in this country to make a better life, trying to do a job that American citizens won't, and he sent almost all of his ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Wildcoast executive director tours to save whales, waves Global Surf News Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 10 March, 2010 : - - Wildcoast Executive Director will be a featured speaker this week at the Pacific Rim Whale Festival in ... Curious whales give boost to Mexican fishermen |
Humpback whales rebound Times-Standard In nearly a quarter century studying humpback whales, researcher Fred Sharpe has witnessed a remarkable recovery. The intelligent and social animals have ... |
Blue whale skeleton expected to be museum show-stopper Vancouver Sun Only two days later, with the jaws, mandibles and a handful or two of vertebrae in place, the shape of Tallulah, a 19-metre blue whale, was becoming clear. ... |
 Otago Daily Times | <i>John Armstrong</i>: Whaling proposal no sell-out, it's realism New Zealand Herald Has New Zealand sold out to Japan by backing a compromise proposal before the International Whaling Commission which ... FONDATION FRANZ WEBER: Trial Against the Slaughter of Whales and Dolphins ... Govt has "sit on the fence" approach to whaling WWF: New Whaling Compromise Is Step Backwards For Whales |
New Bedford, Bristol Country suffer for loss of last whale oil works SouthCoastToday.com The brick remains of the hearth foundation for the kettles that once boiled down whale oil at the Baker-Robinson building have been ... |
Dolphins in the News
New York Daily News | Arguments Against Dolphin Slaughter New York Times (blog) He also discussed the connection between the dolphin killing and the booming worldwide business of marine mammal shows at aquariums and zoos that prompts ... 'The Cove,' Oscar winner for best documentary, to become TV series Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning documentary 'Cove' Oscar Winning Documentary Captures the Plight of Dolphins |
Dolphin Capital to gain from Greek austerity measures Reuters March 11 (Reuters) - South-eastern Europe resorts developer Dolphin Capital Investors Ltd (DOLC.L) said it sees lower construction and operating costs in ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Hands On with Opera Mini for Android PC Magazine No longer — Opera Mini 5 beta feels snappy and solid and now falls somewhere in between the stock browser and Dolphin. If you are familiar with a later ... Hands-On With Opera Mini 5 For Android Opera Mini 5 On Android Market Opera Mini 5 now available for Android devices |
Dolphin Digital Media Announces Monthly Payment Option for Dolphin Secure by ... CNNMoney.com (press release) "Making the monthly payment option available to our customers is one of the many exciting enhancements to Dolphin Secure we are making in the short term," ... |
New York Times (blog) | Louie Psihoyos Wins Oscar, Then Helps Expose L.A. Sushi Restaurant That Sells ... Examiner.com The protest failed, but raised tremendous awareness for the mass dolphin and whale slaughtering that occurs in Japan. Surfers regularly get a first-hand ... Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat Oscar Winners Nab Restaurant in 'Sushi Sting' LA Loses Last Bastion of Endangered Sushi |
Dolphin makes big splash in Newtown's toxic waters YourNabe.com For the first time anyone can remember, a dolphin made waves in the polluted waters of Newtown Creek last week, creating a minor uproar as ... |
 New York Times (blog) | Oscar win for dolphin hunt film 'The Cove' BBC News The 2010 Oscar for best documentary has been won by The Cove, a film which follows an annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji. ... Japanese Fishing Village Defends Dolphin Hunting Depicted in Oscar Winner The Cove Japan Mayor Protests Dolphin Hunt Documentary Oscar Japan dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar |
 Palm Beach Post | Ex-Dolphin Battling Cancer NBC Miami Jim Mandich is a true blue Miami Dolphin, but the former tight end will have to walk away from his first love to take care of something he ... Former Dolphin Jim Mandich Battling Cancer |
EnOcean Brings to Market Self Powered Wireless Dolphin Platform to Enable ... VentureLoop (blog) EnOcean has announced the availability of its Dolphin platform, which enables EnOcean sensor modules to both transmit and ... |
Lady Dolphins take second in Gulf Shores Dolphin Classic Gulf Breeze News Smiling with second The Lady Dolphin softball team took second place out of 15 teams at the Gulf ... GBHS stays unbeaten in district |
Sharks in the News
 KHON2 | Shark-warning signs taken down on North Shore; search resumes for surfer Honolulu Advertiser Shark-warning signs at Laniakea Beach, Papailoa Beach and Chuns Reef were removed at 11:30 am today after Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services personnel did ... Search for missing surfer postponed; shark warning signs remain Sharks Spotted Near Search For Missing Surfer Sharks hamper search for California man who vanished while surfing |
 msnbc.com | Sports Shorts: Sharks take on Predators tonight 1590 KLIV Silicon Valley News The San Jose Sharks face the Nashville Predators tonight at the Shark Tank (7:30PM). The Sharks have won two of the three meetings between the two teams ... Predators at Sharks preview |
 World Fishing | Sharks swim safe around the Maldives Mongabay.com Sharks that dwell in the Maldives can breathe a sigh of relief: the island nation has declared 90000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean a safe-haven for ... Impose shark fin ban Shark to be on the table at CITES conference |
Shorts belonging to missing swimmer found on beach San Francisco Chronicle On Wednesday, warning signs were posted after three large tiger sharks were spotted in the area were a body was seen floating off Papailoa Beach. ... Shorts found, search resumes for missing surfer |
 BBC News | UN wildlife watchdog considers ban on bluefin tuna The Associated Press Both the shark and tuna proposals are likely to be among the most contentious. They pit the Europeans and Americans against fishing nations in North Africa ... UN wildlife watchdog considers ban on bluefin tuna Tuna, elephants up for trade ban Save the Fish |
Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks New York Times PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts ... Pew Applauds Maldives Indian Ocean Shark Sanctuary; Move Boosts Efforts to ... Taxpayers' monies should be speak in a socially responsible manner |
 3News | Loan sharks targeted by Labour MP's bill New Zealand Herald The bill would also require lenders to "reasonably believe" the borrower will be able to repay the loan and seeks to limit the ability of loan sharks to ... Member's bill targets loan sharks Bill to crackdown on loan sharks |
 UPI.com | Roberts to star in Syfy's 'Sharktopus' UPI.com "Sharktopus" is about a research scientist and his daughter who develop a secret military weapon -- a hybrid shark/octopus that can be controlled by ... First Casting News for Sharktopus! Eric Roberts will battle the 'Sharktopus' for Syfy Roger Corman's back with sharktacular B-movie mayhem |
The Office might have jumped the shark with the baby Sun-Sentinel (blog) But the bigger issue is “The Office,” once a smart, great series, seems to have jumped the shark. The first sign of creative bankruptcy is a wedding. ... |
 Mother Nature Network | Shark fishing banned in the Maldives Mother Nature Network The New York Times reports that the Indian Ocean island nation will become the second country to announce blanket protection for its sharks. ... |
Cephalopods (Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and nautiloids) in the News
 Techie Buzz | New Site Unmasks Chatroulette Players New York Times (blog) Chatroulette Map,which first bubbled up on blogs like Laughing Squid, grabs screenshots of people using the service and, using their IP address and ... Map Strips a Bit of Anonymity From Chatroulette A Cat Mask Won't Save You: Chatroulette Map Exposes Your Location Chatroulette Map Shows You Where These Creeps Live |
sQuid introduces contactless payment to the classroom Contactless News sQuid is launching a smart card and biometric solution that will allow students to make cashless purchases at school. With the new system, parents can load ... |
'One Shining Moment' Is A Horrible Audio Slice Of Squid Vomit SB Nation (blog) My goodness, there's much to like about the NCAA men's basketball tournament: gambling, watching four games at ... |
 The L Magazine | Blackening White re: Brown New York Magazine Consider the autobiographical Squid, in which the character of the mother (modeled on Brown) is a chill narcissist. In one scene, her profoundly damaged ... Banned from the screening room! |
On hockey and national anthem etiquette for fans Yahoo! Sports (blog) Technically, that means Otto's [Detroit Red Wings] violate the code he clings to every time they score a goal and the octopi come flying onto the ice at Joe ... Many thanks to Puck Daddy for 'anthem etiquette' plug |
Expert details the secet life of octopuses Boston Herald As Anderson likes to say, "There's no such thing as safe sex for octopuses." The giant Pacific octopus can weigh up to 400 pounds, and extend 28 feet from ... Seattle giant octopus expert tells all in new book |
OSU professor takes cue from dolphins Daily Astorian The jumbo Humboldt squid has recently shown itself to be an invading species on the West Coast. It grows quickly, can get up to 5 feet in length, ... |
Cable Channel to Offer Giant Octopi and Big Cats New York Times Cable channels usually get their start in the United States, then branch out to the rest of the world. But this month, the News Corporation ... |
Giant octopuses weren't the world's best wrestlers Seattle Times The contestants dived 30 to 50 feet to grab giant Pacific octopuses out of a cave or wherever they were making a home. The wrestling part came in loosening ... Eight arms not enough: Octopus had help snagging shark |
Popular Fidelity (blog) | Sharks Fight Squid For Ocean Dominance Popular Fidelity (blog) That area, considered a biological desert due to the lack of sea life, was home to only one major food supply: giant squid. Of course, the squid also ... Leviathans may battle in remote depths Sharks and Squids: Battling Leviathans of the Deep Great white sharks' migration more complex than once thought |
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Settling the dinosaur-demise debate Del Mar Times Among experts weighing in: paleoceanographer Richard Norris, Ph.D., from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who contributed evidence in sea-floor sediment ... |
 La Jolla Light | One cool gift: Bassoonist hopes to thank benefactors with trip to Arctic La Jolla Light In appreciation for a donation of $25000 or more, Swift, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will select one bidder to ... |
 New York Daily News | 30 years later, what killed the dinosaurs is revisited EurekAlert (press release) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, paleoceanographer Richard Norris is one of 41 scientists presenting evidence that an asteroid impact ... The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene ... Experts reaffirm asteroid impact caused mass extinction 65 million years ago ... |
 La Jolla Light | Marine life photographer to visit Scripps for lecture La Jolla Light ... at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at 7:30 pm March 15 to share images and stories from his many years diving off the south coast. ... |
El Nino may affect West Coast fisheries UPI.com Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography say a stronger-than-normal northward ... |
US Navy CDR Mary Sears. Courtesy US Navy. Armed with Science Roger Revelle, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a colleague of Mary Sears, once said: “…the federal government…has generally ... |
 FIS | El Niño may impact West Coast fishing industry FIS ... according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. ... FBD: El Niño to affect West Coast seafood industry |
Seamount Scientists Offer New Comprehensive View of Deep-Sea Mountains Science Daily (press release) Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and colleagues from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Oregon State ... |
Wine Briefs St. Helena Star Climate scientists at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla recently bought a subset of weather data, compiled and written by St. Helena's Dr. ... |
2010 El Nino affecting North Pacific Ocean ecosystems adversely Oneindia Washington, March 4 (ANI): Scientists at NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, US, have revealed that the ongoing El Nino of 2010 is ... |
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