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Environment News tagged with oceans

Coral Attacks! Caught Eating Jellyfish for 1st Time (PHOTOS)
Environment  (tags: world, wildlife, oceans, nature, environment, ecosystems )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - treehugger.com
Since it's Friday, I figure it's time to forget about the raging climate policy debates, deforestation news, and other world woes--and turn to something everyone can appreciate. And that, of course, is weird nature stuff. Above, observe--for the first tim
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Mobula Ray Bursts From the Waves
Environment  (tags: animals, ecosystems, wildlife, world, oceans, habitat, humans, nature )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Off the coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula, a Mobula Ray bursts from the swell with breathtaking beauty, catching air as its whip-like tail trails behind. The expression 'like a fish out of water' is used to convey the sense of feeling uncomfortable in a si
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Hawaii's Beautiful Yet Strangely Coloured Beaches
Environment  (tags: world, water, oceans, nature, humans, habitat, environment, conservation )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Black, green, yellow, red - not the colours of a traffic signal but the amazing variety of Hawaiian beaches. Yes, in certain areas of the islands, you will find beaches with sand in all these colours... and we got incredible pictures to prove it.
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The Big Issue: Plastic Bags
Environment  (tags: climate, conservation, ecosystems, environment, forests, habitat, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, science, wildlife, world )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - earth911.com
Over the past year, the buzz about paper, plastic and reusable bags has grown louder by the day. In the last two years, four states - California, New York, Rhode Island and Delaware; five cities - Tucson, Chicago, New York City, San Juan Capi
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Help Reverse the Bush Assault on Endangered Species- Take Action
Environment  (tags: petition, wildlife, protection, humans, nature, habitat, environment, conservation, oceans )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - change.org
"Before leaving office, the Bush Administration rammed through a regulatory change to the Endangered Species Act that would threaten efforts to save polar bears, wolves, manatees and nearly 1,200 other species from extinction. Now it's up to Congress to
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Take Action- Keep Offshore Drilling Out of Climate Change Legislation
Environment  (tags: petition, world, wildlife, water, protection, humans, oceans, nature, globalwarming, environment, destruction, conservation )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - takeaction.oceana.org
In an effort to pass his climate change bill, Senator Kerry has mentioned he would be willing to accept offshore drilling in previously protected areas in a race for 60 supporting votes. Unfortunately, if Congress follows through on its threat to expand
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50,000 Dead Starfish Found on Irish Beach
Environment  (tags: environment, weather, oceans, starfish, dead )

Katie
- 13 days ago - friendsoftheirishenvironment.net
Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach. A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo.
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Sea Lion Brain Mapped to Study Toxins' Effects
Environment  (tags: Study, researchers, wildlife, oceans, Ocean lion, effects )

Katie
- 15 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Mapping the California sea lion's brain with a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and volumetric measuring, scientists want to better understand how toxins in the water are causing neurological damage among marine mammal populations.
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Take Action- Remove Shark Nets Home
Environment  (tags: world, Petition, water, oceans, nature, humans, habitatdestruction, environment, destruction, conservation )

Daphna
- 16 days ago - removesharknets.com
"Remove Shark Nets" is a campaign to act to remove the shark nets from QLD and NSW in Australia. Inspired by the many campaigns for the removal of the nets within the Kwa-zulu Natal Coast Shark Net Program (South Africa) I decided to start a movement for
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10 Animals on the Verge of Extinction
Environment  (tags: animals, ClimateChange, conservation, endangered, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, wildlife, world )

Daphna
- 18 days ago - mnn.com
Capitalism, Communism, Globalism, Tribalism, every element of mankind are the cause(s), we all know that. But, living in the United States and being one part of the problem myself do KNOW that Capitalism is an IMMENSE NEGATIVE when talking about LIFE on E
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Sea Slime Killing U.S. Seabirds
Environment  (tags: environment, algae blooms, destruction, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, oceans, pollution, protection, research, science )

Dee
- 18 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Hundreds of birds--including this loon pictured on the Oregon coast in fall 2009--are washing up on the shores of the U.S. Pacific Northwest coated with a foamy sea slime, scientists say.
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Climate Chief Lord Stern: Give Up Meat to Save the Planet
Environment  (tags: environment, cows, pigs, methane, meat, CO2emissions, climatechange, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, conservation, climate, pollution, wildlife, world, oceans, destruction, water, animals, science, research )

Tom
- 19 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases.
30 comments
Support the Natural Resources Climate Adaptation Act-Take Action!
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, endangered, environment, habitat, nature, oceans, protection, wildlife )

Tierney
- 21 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
The Natural Resources Climate Adaptation Act addresses the effects of climate change on natural resources such as forests, coastlines and wildlife habitats, and on the people and economies that depend on those resources.
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Tell the PM Save Our Wildlife -Take Action!
Environment  (tags: destruction, endangered, environment, habitatdestruction, wildlife, water, oceans, pollution )

Tierney
- 21 days ago - saveourmarinelife.org.au
One of Australia's worst oil spills in history... On 21 August 2009, a well being drilled from the West Atlas oil rig off Australia's north west Kimberley coast blew out, uncontrollably spewing oil into the ocean. Please sign Petition
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Take Action-Tell Congress to Clean Up the Cruise Industry!
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, humans, nature, oceans, habitat, pollution, protection, wildlife )

Daphna
- 24 days ago - action.foe.org
Did you know that a single cruise ship carrying 3,000 people can generate several hundred thousand gallons of human sewage? Or that cruise ships can dump this sewage untreated just three nautical miles from shore? It's true.
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