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Oil Spill Off Australian Coast Poses Major Threat to Marine Life
Environment (tags: Oil, risk, Timor Sea, Australia, science, environment, threat, marine life )

Sophie
- 15 days ago - independent.co.uk

Sea birds are dying and thousands of marine creatures are at risk from a massive oil spill in the Timor Sea, off north-west Australia, warn the first scientists to survey the isolated site.

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Impact Of Renewable Energy On Our Oceans Must Be Investigated, Say Scientists
Environment (tags: Environment, oceans, energy, marine life, endangered, conservation, protection, research, science, suffering, Sustainabililty )

Dee
- 49 days ago - sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2009) -- Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth are calling for urgent research to understand the impact of renewable energy developments on marine life

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Act Now To Protect Oceans From Acidification
Environment (tags: oceans, seawater, climate-change, global-warming, CO2, environment, ecology, ecosystems, endangered species, extinction, marine life, death, petition, acidification, acidic, chemistry, science, tech, technology, research, world, CO2emissions, conservation )

SirRobert
- 158 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org

Oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and although this acts as a buffer against global warming, CO2 in higher concentrations alters seawater chemistry making oceans acidic, which is already causing marine life mutations and ultimately a mass extinction!

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A Look Into Future Oceans for Shellfish Reasons
Environment (tags: Ocean, Marine Life, Marine Science, habitat, destruction, endangered, suffering, science, CO2emissions )

Dee
- 197 days ago - online.wsj.com

Known as the rain forests of the sea, coral reefs teem with life. Now, scientists say these important habitats are under threat. WSJ's Science Journal columnist Robert Lee Hotz reports.

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Climate Change: Our Oceans Are Dying!
Environment (tags: oceans, marine life, climate-change, global-warming, biology, acidification, chemistry, death, endangered species, activism, science, research, tech, world, humans, global threat, CO2, carbon dioxide, atmosphere, environment, study, government, nature )

SirRobert
- 244 days ago - volconvo.com

Climate change is rapidly altering the chemical composition of our world's oceans and increasing the already growing threat to all marine life. These delicate ecosystems within the global food chain may collapse if immediate action is ignored by officials

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Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change
Environment (tags: environment, climate-change, marine life )

Michael
- 467 days ago - sciencedaily.com

A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. Researchers from Lyon (1) and Canberra (Australia) (2) have found evidence of a progressive ocean cooling of about 15°C

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How to Save 83% of the World's Coral Reef Species
Environment (tags: environment, nature, green, oceans, marine life, fish, coral, corals, coral reef, coral reefs, wildlife, endangered species, islands, water, fishes, reef, reefs, nature conservancy, science, conservation, the nature conservancy, tnc )

Jonathon
- 528 days ago - nature.org

Coral reefs provide the world with goods and services worth US$375 billion annually, but scientists estimate that 70% of all corals reefs could be lost by 2050. Now a new initiative aims to conserve an astounding 83% of the world's coral species.

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Defenders of Wildlife: Urge Your Senators to Support the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Environment (tags: wildanimals, marine life, laws, UN, animals, conservation, water, protection, habitat, whales, world )

Thunderr
- 748 days ago - secure.defenders.org

Ratifying the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- a 25 year-old treaty that virtually every other developed, ocean-going nation has already joined -- is an important step in protecting dolphins and other marine wildlife and in restoring America's place

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The State of the World's Oceans
Environment (tags: oceans, water, marine life, science, conservation, marine biology, seas, underwater, fish, fisheries, pollution, climate change, global warming, habitat, conservation science, the nature conservancy, tnc, nature, environment )

Jonathon
- 858 days ago - nature.org

Oceans are vitally important to human communities around the world. We depend on oceans and coasts for food, medicines and protection from storms -- altogether, more than $20 trillion annually in ecological goods and services come from our world's oceans.

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New Discovery Could Save Endangered Soft-Shell Turtle From Extinction!
Environment (tags: environment, habitatdestruction, fish, eco-friendly, conservation, water, science, endangered, wildlife, sea turtle, soft-shell, marine, marine life, turtle )

Mr Leathe
- 907 days ago - conservation.org

A nesting ground for the rare Giant Soft-shell turtle was found recently in Cambodia, giving hope that this species can be saved. The turtle has a rubbery skin with fused ribs, but can strike faster than a cobra!

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FISHERMEN AGREE TO PROTECT SECTIONS OF CORAL SEA REEF
Environment (tags: coral, coral reef, protection, marine life )

Rachel
- 907 days ago - abc.net.au

ELEANOR HALL: To an unusual environmental initiative in the north-east of Australia. A group of commercial fishermen has agreed not to fish key sections of the Coral Sea reef, saying it needs to be protected for tourism and research. The Coral Sea...

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Help Protect & Conserve Our Oceans & Marine Life - What You Can Do
Environment (tags: MARINE LIFE, taking action, wildlife, ocean )

Rachel
- 964 days ago - marinebio.org

We've all heard the above from various sources and most of us tend to think "Well, I'm not hurting the Ocean and it is so big that I can't possibly be affecting it...." I understand and used to think the same things a few years ago.... Since then I've...

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Exotic Animals Seen Where Antarctic Ice Used to Be
Environment (tags: oceans, marine life, conservation )

Rachel
- 986 days ago - enn.com

WASHINGTON -- Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ice, scientists reported Sunday. This is the first time explorers...

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