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Real Solutions, Not Failed Techno-Fixes: A Global South Perspective on #APlasticOcean
Fifteen years ago in the Philippines, trying to use your own reusable bags in any major supermarket would have entailed an argument with...
By Anne Larracas
Feb 5, 20175 min read
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RIGHTS FOR WHALES AND DOLPHINS
Science now shows us just how intelligent some whales and dolphins are, so we believe they deserve the right to exist free from threats....
WDC conservation and research projects
Feb 5, 20171 min read
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INTRODUCTION TO WDC CONSERVATION AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
WDC believes that science and practical conservation research is a fundamental tool that enables the development of effective policy and...
WDC conservation and research projects
Feb 5, 20177 min read
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Watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s Climate Change Doc Online for Free
By now, you have probably heard that Leonardo DiCaprio has a new documentary about climate change coming out. So how can you watch it?...
ECOWATCH
Oct 29, 20163 min read
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7 Solutions to the Climate Crisis
It's no secret—here in the U.S., there's an election coming up. It's soon. It's a big decision for American voters. And it's a big deal....
The Climate Reality Project
Oct 29, 20164 min read
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A Mind of their own
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nationalgeographic
Oct 28, 20161 min read
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Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together
The dolphins used specific vocalisations as they cooperated to open the canister Brian Skerry/National Geographic By Robin Wylie...
newscientist.com
Oct 28, 20162 min read
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Could the smell of the sea help cool a warming planet?
.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment Ah, the summertime sizzle of a shell-strewn beach, the bracing odour of the briny sea. There's...
Matt McGrath Environment correspondent
Oct 28, 20163 min read
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Should tourists be banned from Antarctica?
This season around 37,000 tourists are expected to visit Antarctica - home to about 20 million pairs of breeding penguins. But is it...
By Juliet Rix Antarctica
Oct 28, 20161 min read
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World's largest marine protected area declared in Antarctica
Delegates from 24 countries and the European Union have agreed that the Ross Sea in Antarctica will become the world's largest marine...
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent
Oct 28, 20161 min read
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Coast of Antarctica Will Host World’s Largest Marine Reserve
SYDNEY, Australia — The world’s biggest marine reserve, almost as large as Alaska, will be established in the Ross Sea in Antarctica...
MICHELLE INNISOCT
Oct 28, 20163 min read
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Fur real: Polar bears are said to be among the species at threat
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/earth-entering-new-extinction-phase-5916570?ICID=FB_mirror_main
Nicki Philip
Oct 28, 20161 min read
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Turtle Island Calls for Action to Protect Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles from the California Driftn
Olema, Calif. (Oct. 15, 2016) – Today is Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day. “Critically endangered” Pacific leatherback sea...
Joanna McWilliams
Oct 26, 20161 min read
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IS IT TIME TO RE-FRAME THE CONVERSATION?
A recent article published in Oceanography by Dr. Phillip Clapham is entitled Managing Leviathan: Conservation challenges for the great...
Chris Butler-Stroud, CEO of WDC
Oct 25, 20163 min read
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kosgoda seaturtle
Turtles in danger Sea turtles have few natural predators in adulthood although tiger sharks and killer whales have been known to prey on...
kosgoda seaturtle
Oct 25, 20162 min read
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Coral reefs dying
Coral reefs dying from oceans supercharged with fossil fuel heat -- In Nature when critters lose their homes, they die #SaveNatureNow
Reese Halter
Oct 18, 20161 min read
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New Study Says Ocean Pollution is Worse Than We Thought
Dutch conservation group The Ocean Cleanup recently flew over the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch.’ This area lies between Hawaii and...
interesting engineering.
Oct 11, 20161 min read
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Tundra, 29-year-old polar bear, dies at Detroit Zoo
A 29-year-old female polar bear named Tundra, who arrived at the Detroit Zoo just a few months ago from Indianapolis, died Monday morning...
Daniel Bethencourt
Oct 11, 20161 min read
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Seafood Fraud Impacts Amazon’s Pink River Dolphins
This month, marine conservation NGO Oceana released a major report on seafood fraud, which reviewed more than 200 scientific studies that...
Guardian/Emma Bryce
Oct 4, 20161 min read
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Marine Pollution
The oceans are so vast and deep that until fairly recently, it was widely assumed that no matter how much trash and chemicals humans...
nationalgeographic
Oct 4, 20162 min read
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