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- Samantha, selected from TreeHugger
- February 12, 2012
- 5:07 pm
- 104 comments
By David DeFranza, TreeHugger
1. Blue Sea Slug
The ocean is a delicate place, and tiny changes to its composition can cause serious devastation.
Adding carbon to the atmosphere contributes to global warming and climate change. Another less-discussed impact is ocean acidification—whereby carbon molecules diffuse into the ocean from the atmosphere, causing a steady rise in acidity—even though the impacts are already being felt by many species.
The beautiful blue sea slug, seen here, is one such creature. Blue sea slugs feed on the poisonous Portuguese man of war jellyfish, meaning that an ocean without them would be an ocean with a lot more stinging jellyfish.
Image: lostandcold / Flickr
Read more: Environment, Green, Nature, Nature & Wildlife, ocean acidification, oceans
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Thanks for the article.
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+ add your ownAnd it's probably way more than 10. Seems to me if we havent begun to care by now, we simply arent going to do anything at all.
We humans have to start thinking about all these animals who we are causeing so much harm. It's just time to pull our heads out of the sand and start cleaning up our oceans.
This MANKIND doing what they do best kill off innocent animals that are just busy living nothing more nothing less.
All life is linked, we're all threatened!
IT'S TERRIBLE
not just 10
Dumb Asses...... Where is the outrage????
very sad
For a minute I thought it was a new breed of the Bata Fish.
no one cares....lets just keep using the ocean as our personal dumping ground for medical waste, garbage, cruise line sewage and nitrite run off via unsustainable farming practices. Long as we can save a dollar and keep buy things from China...who cares about the environment and it's inhabitants? We'll all be dead before we see the end of this world who cares about our children's future and the entire animal kingdom. Oh btw there is NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING...The fact that this is basically the mindset of most Americans, especially those in the greatest positions to potentially change this outcome is saddening to say the least.
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