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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Expanding Islands of Trash

nytimes.com | LINDSEY HOSHAW | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Trash-Island, Trash, Sustainability, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Garbage, Garbage Vortex, Environment, Green News

Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patc...

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Caught in the Act: Philippe Cousteau's Pet Peeve

Kathy Eldon | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: Clean Water, Environmentalism, Creative-Visions-Foundation, Conservation, Philippe Cousteau, Oceans, Philippe Cousteau Jr, Impact News
Kathy Eldon

I recently caught up with Philippe Cousteau Jr., following in the footsteps of his grandfather, famed French explorer Jacques Cousteau, encouraging young people to use their power to change the world around them.

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Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!

John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Packaging, Waste, Trash, Climate Change, No Impact Week, Oceans, Water, Epa, Green News
John DeCock

The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Turning the Tide for Seafood

Julie Packard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Seafood, Healthy Seafood, Ocean-Friendly Seafood, Ocean, Oceans, Fish, Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Aquaculture, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Seafood Watch, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Julie Packard, Seafood Report, Super Green Seafood, Super Green List, Celebrity Chef, Celebrity Chefs, Bycatch, Overfishing, Turning the Tide, Green News
Julie Packard

Ocean life is today threatened as never before. Human activities are taking their toll, and nothing exacts a greater price than the industrial scope and scale of fishing to feed our growing appetite for seafood.

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Barnacles' Sticky Secret Revealed

BBC | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Crustaceans, Oceans, Sea Creatures, Marine Life, Animals, Marine-Animals, Barnacles, Green News

Just how they stick so steadfastly whilst underwater has remained a biochemical puzzle for scientists for many years. Now researchers have solved thi...

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Swimming in a Sea of Acid

Sigourney Weaver | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Acid Test Movie, Ocean Acidification, Ocean-Pollution, Acid Test, Oceans, Green News
Sigourney Weaver

Scientists have known for decades that when carbon dioxide mixes with ocean water it creates an acid, but only recently did they begin to realize what this growing quantity of acid would mean for ocean life.

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Stephen Colbert Looks Like A Dolphin, Discusses What Kind Of Seafood You Should Eat (VIDEO)

Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Sustainable Seafood, Oceans, The World Is Blue, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Seafood, Food Politics, Green News

Stephen Colbert sat down with National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence and author Sylvia Earle to discuss her book, The World Is Blue, which is about...

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Local Leaders on a Global Stage

Kevin George | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Jane-Goodall, Governor Ted Kulongoski, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Environment, Global Climate Summit, Climate Change, Oceans, Amazon Rainforest, Deforestation, Climate Bill, Green News
Kevin George

These are just of few of the characters on the global stage whom I met - and who shared their stories of their paths on the road to Copenhagen.

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Taking Acid Test, Our New Documentary, To Capitol Hill

Sigourney Weaver | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Acid Test Documentary, Ocean Acidification, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Acid Test, Oceans, Green News
Sigourney Weaver

We don't have to watch economic opportunities evaporate in the face of ocean acidification. We can take steps to turn back the tide.

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Stopping Ocean Sprawl

Paul McRandle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Acidification, Sprawl, Oil Rigs, Climate Change, Coastal Pollution, Shipping Lanes, Oceans, Wind Farms, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Paul McRandle

"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.

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Heading to Rhode Island Tomorrow in Support of a National Oceans Policy

Sarah Chasis | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Policy Taskforce, Economy, Atlantic Ocean, Obama Administration, Offshore Wind, Rhode Island, Whales, Healthy Oceans Policy, Offshore Renewables, Healthy Oceans, Great Lakes, New York Obama, Marine Spatial Planning, National Oceans Policy, Oceans, Fisheries, Providence, Green News
Sarah Chasis

A national ocean policy will help New York, the East Coast and the entire country better address all of these issues that affect its ocean and its Great Lakes resources.

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Bad Acid Trip

David Helvarg | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Policy Task Force, Oceans, Ocean Dead Zones, Plankton, Barack Obama, Green News
David Helvarg

More than 40 years after Woodstock it's the ocean that's on a bad acid trip. It's been scraped raw, emptied out, overheated, poisoned and abused, not a good time to be ingesting dangerous chemicals.

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Volunteers Needed: California Coastal Cleanup Day

Posted 09.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Environment, Beach Cleanup, Whole Foods, California, Oceans, California Coastal Cleanup Day, Whole Foods Boycott, Impact News

Last year, over 70,000 volunteers picked up over 1.6 million pounds of trash from California beaches. This year, the annual California Coastal Cleanup...

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An Ocean of Inspiration

Julie Packard | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Volunteering, Inspirational, Inspiration, Volunteers, Sea Otters, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Ocean Conservation, Sea Otter, Ocean Policy, Ocean, Green News
Julie Packard

People who are making a difference for conservation invariably say they found their passion for nature by spending time outdoors or in museums: sharing the energizing experience of discovering something new and hidden.

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Obama Administration Reveals Bedrock Ocean Policy Details -- and They're Strong

Sarah Chasis | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Oceans, Ocean Policy Task Force, Healthy Oceans, National Healthy Oceans Policy, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Marine Spatial Planning, Fish, President Obama, Obama Administration, National Oceans Policy, Green News
Sarah Chasis

Like the passage of a Clean Air Act or a Clean Water Act, President Obama is in the process of creating a landmark national healthy oceans policy and plan of action for our seas.

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Worlds Oceans Warmest On Record This Summer

AP | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Oceans, Warming Oceans, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

WASHINGTON — The world's in hot water. Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, the Nation...

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Power Plants Don't Have to Suck (Literally)

Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Resources, State Water Resources Control Board, Closed Cycle Cooling, Once-Through Cooling, Epa, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, Power Plants, Obama Administration, Lake Erie, California, Lakes, Rivers, Cooling Water Intake, Environment, Fishing, Oceans, Electric Utilities, Fisheries, Estuaries, Riverkeeper, Green News
Steve Fleischli

Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.

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Scallops And Lobster Still Going Strong In The Face Of Climate Change

AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Scallops, Oceans, Sustainable Seafood, Lobster, Global Warming, Seafood, Green News

PORTLAND, Maine — The basic makeup of the ocean waters off the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region has fundamentally changed in the past 40 ye...

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Fish For Our Future

Julie Packard | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Boris Worm, Ray Hilborn, Bill Monning, Sustainable Fishing, Seafood Watch, Oceans, Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Fisheries, Marine Protected Areas, Ocean, Over-Fishing, Ocean-Animals, Overfishing, Green News
Julie Packard

The oceans are incredibly resilient. Given a chance to recover, they can produce a remarkable abundance of marine life -- much more than we see today.

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Will We Protect Our Majestic 23,000 Square Mile Deep-Sea Coral Reef?

Yahoo! News | BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coral Reef Protection, Fishing, Oceans, Ocean Protection, Coral Reef, Cape Canaveral, Green News

FIFTY MILES OFF CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Deep beneath the crystalline blue surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern U.S. lies a virtual rain f...

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New Film Reminds Us to Protect Ocean Economic Vitality from Global Warming

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Acidification, Acid Test, Oceans, Discovery Channel, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Fish, Arctic Ice Melt, Green Living, Green News
Frances Beinecke

The long-term vitality of many important industries rests entirely on the vitality of the oceans, and right now, they are threatened by something called ocean acidification.

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A World Without Whales?

Philippe Cousteau | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Whales, Jacques Cousteau, Environment, Alexandra Cousteau, Conservation, Ocean Acidification, Philippe Cousteau, Oceans, Discovery Planet Green, Green News
Philippe Cousteau

The work of my grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, laid the groundwork for most of what we know about the marine world. Now, ocean acidification could spell the end of oceans as we know them.

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Urgent Need for an Underwater Park System

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Seafood, Overfishing, Fish, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Pollution, Marine Life, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Grossly polluted, overfished to the point of near collapse of many fish stocks, and home to giant "dead zones" incapable of sustaining life, the oceans are in a state of dire threat.

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Taking On the Plastic Vortex: Project Kaisei

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Birds, The World Federation of Recycling, Measuring Toxins, Doug Woodring, Recycling, The Plastic Vortex, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Fish, Oceans, Project Kaisei, Green News
Mary Liz Thomson

Discovered 10 years ago, The Garbage Patch or Plastic Vortex, is a huge area of floating plastic garbage, stretching hundreds of square miles northwest of Hawaii in the ocean's No Man's Land.

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Protecting the Earth's Blue Heart

Sylvia Earle | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Point Reyes Headlands, Ocean Policy Task Force, Environmental Degradation, Fish & Game Commission, Marine Life Protection Act, Farallon Islands, Sustainable Fishing, Ocean-Pollution, Obama Administration, Fishing, Oceans, Fisheries, Overfishing, Green News
Sylvia Earle

Obama's new ocean policy task force, launched in June, is exactly what is needed: a coherent national policy based on science and informed by local economic interests.

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