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Oceans

Ship Funded By Bob Barker For $5 Million Fights Whaling In Antarctica

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 01.06.2010 | Green

Read More: Price Is Right, Antarctica, Animal Rights, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Bob Barker, United Nations, Feet Wash Up Beach @Y:World, Endangered Species, Japan, The Price Is Right, Oceans, Paul Watson, Whaling, Whales, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Five million dollars for an anti-whaling ship? Bob Barker says the price is right. Barker donated that amount to the Sea Shepherd...

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Let The President Surf!

Robbie Gennet | Posted 01.02.2010 | Living

Read More: Health, Secret Service, President Obama, Obama, Vacation, Hawaii, Oceans, Barack Obama, Living News
Robbie Gennet

With all that he has on his plate, I'm hopeful the President can catch a surf session while in Hawaii and enjoy the warm Pacific ocean. Aloha and mahalo to the Commander in Chief!

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The Earth's Decade

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 12.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Yangtze River, Dolphins, Baiji, Marine Reserves, Climate, Roadless Rule, Copenhagen, Twitter, Facebook, Mariana Trench, Solar Energy, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Three Gorges Dam, Endangered Species, Hurricane Katrina, Oceans, Forests, Overfishing, China, Global Warming, Green News
Glenn Hurowitz

This decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that continue to provide oxygen to our children's children.

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Obama's Ocean Plan Will Help Stop Ocean Sprawl

Sarah Chasis | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Oceans, Ocean Policy Task Force, Marine Spatial Planning, Barack Obama, Msp, Green News
Sarah Chasis

The new framework for America's Marine Spatial Planning policy sets a solid time line for progress by identifying which coastal areas should be used for industrial purposes, and which need restoring and preservation.

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Obama's Blue Frontier

David Helvarg | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Policy Task Force, National Oceans Policy, Oceans, Eez, Exclusive Economic Zone, Marine Spatial Planning, Green News
David Helvarg

An executive order establishing a national ocean policy for the practical use and long-term protection of our public seas could be one of Barack Obama's outstanding achievements.

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New Deep Sea Species Discovered (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Slideshow, Fish, Animals, Oceans, Acquatic-Life, Slidehuge, Slidepoll, Grimpoteuthis Discoveryi, Sea Cucumber, New Marine Animals, Copepod, Enypniastes, Neocyema, Green News

A see-through sea cucumber, a "big eared" octopus-like animal, a "gold treasure" crustacean, and more are among the many new deep-dwellers collected d...

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Ocean Issues Are Profoundly Important, Though Mostly Invisible

Keith Addis | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Arianna Huffington, Pacific Ocean, Oceans, Oceana, Deepak Chopra, Climate Change, Overfishing, Global Warming, Green News
Keith Addis

Ocean issues have always been hard to get people to care about even though they function as the primary battery for the planet's climate, generate millions of jobs, and produce food for billions of people.

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Back to the Bush Leagues on Arctic Drilling?

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas, Congress, Wildlife, Bush Administration, Arctic, Oil, Department of Interior, Science, Oceans, Climate and Energy, Obama Administration, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.

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A Seahorse Hitchhikes Over 3,100 Miles Away From Home

BBC | Jody Bourton | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Hitchhiker, Marine Life, Oceans, Atlantic Ocean, Animals, Seashorse, Azores, Lined Seahorse, Green News

[A] seahorse that lives on the western coast of the Atlantic has been found in the Azores almost 5000km away from its possible home....

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Giant Jellyfish Swarm Northward Due To Global Warming

Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Jellyfish, Oceans, Warming Oceans, Climate Change, Global Warming, Giant Jellyfish, Green News

MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer KOKONOGI, Japan - A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venom...

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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 11.28.2009 | 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 11.24.2009 | 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 11.23.2009 | 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 11.22.2009 | 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 11.18.2009 | 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 11.17.2009 | 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 11.17.2009 | 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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