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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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NRDC's Beach Report Out Today

Nancy Stoner | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Beachprotection, Beachwater, Beachreport, Waterprogram, Swimming, Beachwater Quality, Beaches, Climate Change, Travel, Oceans, Climate Change Bill, Best Beaches, Lakes, Green News
Nancy Stoner

I'm guessing human or animal waste in the waves that can send you running to the bathroom, doctor's office -- or worse -- the emergency room, isn't part of your get-a-way daydream.

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Congress Oughta Protect Otters

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Raul Grijalva, Nick Rahall, Marine Life, California, Sam Farr, Agriculture, Sea Otters, Oceans, Pollution, Animals, Otters, Madeleine Bordallo, Politics News
Michael Markarian

As a keystone species, the otters play a vitally important role in maintaining the health of California's central coast marine ecosystem.

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Protecting Our Oceans

Kelly Meyer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Marine-Protected-Areas, Oceans, Marine Life, Fish, Green News
Kelly Meyer

For decades, we have preserved iconic landscapes with wilderness areas and parks. Now, California is leading the charge to do the same underwater.

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Captain Moore's Journey to the Accumulation Zone: An Update

Laurie David | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Captain Charles Moore, Plastic Pollution, Oceans, Algalita, Pacific Gyre, Green News
Laurie David

Captain Moore is helping us understand that the rapid rise in global plastic production is leading to a rise in plastic pollution and its devastating effects on our oceans and our lives.

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Balancing Our Kids' Nature Deficit

Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Rivers, Hiking, Children, Kids, Water, Books, Nature-Deficit Disorder, Camping, Oceans, Parenting, Outdoors, Lakes, Green News
Avital Binshtock

How can you ensure that your children don't end up deprived of outdoor experiences? Here are four ideas for getting your kids away from the video games and out into nature instead.

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Japan Fears Massive Jellyfish Invasion

pinktentacle.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Marine Life, Sea, Jellyfish, Marine Animals, Japan, Oceans, Asia, Chinese Waters, China, Ocean, Animals, Giant Jellyfish, Green News

Japanese researchers monitoring the activity of giant jellyfish in Chinese waters are warning of a potentially historic and catastrophic invasion this...

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Planet Ocean: Riding a Green Ship to the Future We Want - Project Kaisei

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Scripps Oceanographic Institute, Social Entrepreneurs, Doug Woodring, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Ocean Clean Up, Project Kaisei, Alternative Energy, Environment, Marine Science, Plastic Vortex, Ocean Pollution, Jim Dufour, Discarded Plastic, Green Economy, Oceans, Diesel Fuel, Green News
Mary Liz Thomson

Hundreds of square miles of ocean, just North West of Hawaii, are covered thick with floating human garbage. The ocean doesn't clean itself.

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New Film Captures Link Between Imperiled Oceans and Climate Change

Frances Beinecke | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Ocean Acidification, Acid Test, Marine Life, Oceans, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Frances Beinecke

A new film called Acid Test powerfully illustrates the fateful connection between global warming and our oceans.

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Replica

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Summer-Rentals, Cape Cod, Home Rentals, Oceans, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Summer Vacation, Living News
Stephanie Gertler

Perhaps she, too, needed a respite, a hiatus, a different life -- and the summer gave her a good excuse.

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Obama Declares June Oceans Month

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

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

President Obama launched a new ocean protect initiative that aims to unify the management of U.S. ocean territory, coasts and the Great Lakes. Current...

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East Coast Governors Join to Protect Our Oceans

Keith Addis | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Environment, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Oceana, Green News
Keith Addis

At some point in the not too distant future, the oceans will have absorbed all the carbon dioxide that they can tolerate without having a devastating impact on marine life.

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Obama Announces Ocean Protection Plan

Sarah Chasis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, Healthy Oceans, President Obama, Pew Oceans Commission, Oceans, National Healthy Oceans Policy, Marine Spatial Planning, Great Lakes, Green News
Sarah Chasis

The US needs a comprehensive policy to protect our ocean, coasts and Great Lakes today and for future generations. Right now, our oceans are governed by over 140 laws and 20 different agencies.

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Save the Bluefin Tuna

Daniel Kessler | Posted 07.10.2009 | New York

Read More: De Niro, Oceans, Greenpeace, Nobu, Bluefin Tuna, New York, Nobu Bluefin Tuna, Food, New York News
Daniel Kessler

Nobu has done absolutely nothing to protect that very fish which has so heavily contributed to the jingling pockets of the restaurant's owners. Our oceans cannot endure this situation any longer.

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Nobu Feels the Heat about Serving Bluefin Tuna -- A Few Big Names Offer Advice

Samuel Fromartz | Posted 07.10.2009 | New York

Read More: New York, Mark Bittman, Nobu, Seafood Conservation, Food, Oceans, Sustainable Seafood, Nobu Bluefin Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, Seafood, New York News
Samuel Fromartz

Given all the controversy around Nobu, I posed the following question to a number of people, including New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, and ocean conservationist and writer Carl Safina.

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Ted Danson Narrates Ocean Documentary "The End Of The Line" (VIDEO)

MSNBC | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Ted Danson, Eating Matters, Fish, Environment, Oceans, Overfishing, Oceana, Green News

Ted Danson narrates "The End Of The Line," a grim look at overfishing and the state of the world's oceans. He talks about the movie and what we can do...

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Our Oceans Could Run Out Of Fish By 2048 (VIDEO)

Grist | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Sea, Healthy, Climate Change, Sustainable Eating, Fish, Environment, Protein, Eating, Oceans, Seafood, Scientists, Green News

One billion people rely on seafood for their sole source of protein. But if we don't start eating more sustainably, scientists predict that our waters...

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This World Oceans Day, Watch Out for Beach Runoff

Paul McRandle | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Oceans, Green News
Paul McRandle

Water contaminated with human and animal waste forced more than 20,000 closings or advisories at U.S. beaches in 2007 alone.

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A Day of Thanks for Our Oceans

Julie Packard | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: The Ocean Project, Climate Change, Capitol Hill Ocean Week, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Seafood Watch, Oceans, Noaa, National Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Ocean, Ocean-Day, Green News
Julie Packard

Americans now believe their individual actions can make a difference for the environment and the health of the ocean. They're ready to act - but they're not sure what to do.

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