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Green News Report - May 12, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Glaciers, Green News, Polar Bears, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Oceans, Green News Report, Coal, Endangered Species Act, Solar Power, Green News

In Today's Audio Report: Obama abandons polar bears, but exposes hidden Bush EPA study detailing cancer risks from coal ash; The highest ski run in the world, melted; Plus: The awesome new Clean Coal ringtones you've been waiting for!

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Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Wetlands, Science, Permafrost, Oceans, Methane, Global Warming, Climate Disruption, Green News

Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at th...

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Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch (VIDEO)

Oprah, Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Oprah, Earth Day, Water, Trash Island, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Pollution, Great Pacific Garbage Patch Video, Oprah Earth Day Video, Pacific Garbage Patch, Green News

Oprah's green episode for Earth Day started with chilling footage and description of a giant island of trash -- "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch". ...

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Here There Be Pirates and Illegal Fishing

Daniel Kessler | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Oceans, Seafood, Somali Pirates, Chilean Sea Bass, Illegal-Fishing, Greenpeace, Overfishing, Green News

As Somali pirates have captured the world's attention over the past week, I've been up to my neck in pirates of a different sort.

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Dolphins Protect Chinese Ships From Pirates

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Dolphins, China, Somali Pirates, Pirates, Oceans, Captain Phillips, Green News

The suspected pirates ships stopped and then turned away. The pirates could only lament their littleness before the vast number of dolphins. The spectacular scene continued for a while.

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The Untold Story of Climate Change: No Time to Lose for Our Oceans

Julie Packard | Posted 05.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Sea Creatures, Oceans, Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, Aquariums, Climate Change, Fish, Green News

The most visible impacts of climate change on the oceans -- rising sea levels and an increase in storm severity -- can be easily seen. Others are less apparent.

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An Industry Drunken with Profits

Javier Sierra | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Energy, Double Hulls, Lobbying, Green, Obama, Clean Energy, Hispanics, Pollution, Shipping, Exxon Valdez, Oil Spill, Environment, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Oceans, Green News

Exxon has long ago turned the page on Valdez spill twenty years ago. However, for the Alaska residents, especially the fishermen, the nightmare continues.

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Green Porno 2 with Isabella Rossellini: Now with More Sex!*

Starre Vartan | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Porno, Environmentalism, Oceans, Isabella Rossellini, Animals, Robert Redford, Sundance Channel, Green News

*OK, it's fishy sex (and I don't mean the kind you have with your ex when you've had six ''Pacific Sunset" martinis, but actual sex between fish and c...

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The Search Ends At Sundown

James Boyce | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Florida, Oceans, Coast Guard Search, Boating Accident, Nfl Drowned Players, NFL Player Boating Accident, Living News

Walking through the streets of Boston tonight, I thought of the families of the three men still missing, one with a three year-old daughter.

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Dig the Oceans

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Exploration, Nasa, Oceans, Space Exploration, Obama NASA, Undersea Exploration, Water, Space, Pierce-Florida, Green News

All we need is a good race with other nations -- measured by how much ocean we cover and who can find more goodies faster -- and ocean exploration will be all the rage.

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Colbert Report: Dr. Robert Ballard on Why Ocean Exploration Is a Good Investment

George Spyros | Posted 03.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Oceans, Colbert Report, Dr. Robert Ballard, Colbert, Ocean Exploration, Green News

With the stimulus deal being reached this week, it's interesting to look at where we place our financial priorities when it comes to taxpayer dollars being spent on exploration of our natural world.

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Divers Zone: Play Here!

www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Funny, New Release, Games, Litle, Fun, New Game, Diving, Flash Game, Fresh Game, Sea Game, Swimming, Sea, Play, Water, Easy, Little Game, Oceans, Hot Game, Hot, Comedy News

Dream to dive a bit in colorful and marvelous deep of the ocean? Then do it here! But be careful - diving isn't simple! Direct diver to hang on in the water. The further the diver hang on the more point you will get. Be careful from the object that shown you only have one life

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The TED Conference: Day One: Highlights

Christiana Wyly | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Tim Berners Lee, Entertainment, Change the World, Design, Bill Gates, Life-Changing, Nandan Nilekani, Clean Coal Myth, The TED Conference, Bill Gates Mosquitoes, World-Changing, Jacqueline Novogratz, Seth Godin, Palm Springs, Overpopulation, TED Unveiling, Tribes, Al Gore Clean Coal, Evolution, Homo-Evolutis, Disney, Technology, Oceans, TED.Com, Jake Eberts, Ted 2009, Worldchanging, TED Conference, Unveiling, Green News

I decided to do a series of highlights to share some reflections from TED. The range of the unveilings in the fields of art, music, and technology have been astonishing.

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Dive into Google Earth's New Ocean Exploration Features (Sans Snorkel)

Starre Vartan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Google, Oceans, Marine Conservation, Fish, Seafood, The Internet, Google Earth, Connecticut, Computers, Animals, Google Maps, Technology, Norwalk, Green News

It was with plenty of excitement for the revival of my inner marine biologist-girl that I read through the New York Times' coverage of Google Earth's new application.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Day 1 of the New Congress Bodes Well for Oceans

Sarah Chasis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: 111th Congress, George Bush, Natural Resources Defense Council, Congress, Beaches, George W. Bush, Environment, National Healthy Oceans Act, Obama, Oceans, Barack Obama, Marine Monuments, Offshore Drilling, Healthy Oceans Act, Green News

Like a Clean Air Act for our air, and a Clean Water Act for our water - we need a landmark bill to protect the health of our oceans.

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Bush's New Marine Monuments: The Good, the Bad and Next Steps

Sarah Chasis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Dozens of scientific studies show that fully protected marine reserves have more and bigger fish than similar habitats that are fished, which makes them highly productive.

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Coral Reefs Already 1/5 Destroyed

AP | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Coral Reefs, Oceans, Global Warming, Climate Change, Environment, Green News, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change Treaty, Union for Conservation of Nature, Ocean Temperatures, Green News

POZNAN, Poland — The world has lost nearly one-fifth of its coral reefs and much of the rest could be destroyed by increasingly acidic seas if c...

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Richardson Appointment Is Good News for Oceans

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Transition Team, Obama's Cabinet, Noaa, Acidification, Commerce Department, Obama Transition, Oceans, Richardson, Oceans Warming, Global Warming, Endangeres Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Ocean Global Warming, Secretary of Commerce Bill Richardson, Ocean Acidity, Bill Richardson, Offshore Drilling, Secretary of Commerce, Green News

As Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson can position the US as a leader on international ocean issues. He is a big-picture person, someone who understands the global stage.

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Climate Concerns, Treadmill Make Athletic Shrimp A Star (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Marine Life, Ocean Dead Zones, Green News, Pacific University, Shrimp, Climate Change, Fish, Environment, David Scholnick, Oceans, Oceans Warming, Global Warming, Green News

Climate change is reeking havoc on marine life. Not only have sea temperatures risen dramatically, but storms and waves are becoming increasingly dama...

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NOAA(H) and the Whales

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Noaa, Whales, U.S. Supreme Court, Sonar, California, Oceans, Navy, Animals, Green News

Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule-making processes.

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If Life Gives You Limes, Make Margaritas

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Jimmy Buffett, Tropical Forests, Economy, Oceans, Vacations, Recession, Margarit, Business News

His island empire may be laid back but it's no fool's gold. In 2006, Buffett ranked number seven on Rolling Stone's list of Richest Rock Stars, beating out Celine Dion and rapper 50 Cent.

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Morgan Stanley Floats Tidal Power Plans

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Energy, S Renewable Energy, United Kingdom, Computers, Renewable Energy, Green Business, Green Energy, Morgan Stanley, Carbon Tax, Scotland, Green News, Tidal Power, Clean Technology, Oceans, Technology, Green News

Morgan Stanley plans to build a 150-megawatt data center powered entirely by tidal energy off the coast of Scotland, the banking giant announced earlier this month.

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Endangered Species Sashimi: The Plight Of Bluefin Tuna

Johanna Smith | Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Food Matters, Environmental Policy, Politics of Food, Fish, Food Politics, Environment, Conservation, Sustainability, Sushi, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Endangered Species, Fishing, Oceans, Bluefin Tuna, Nobu, Green News

Bluefin tuna, one of the world's most highly prized marine species, have met their plight. These tuna, which the Monterey Bay Aquarium's reputed Seafo...

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Google Earth, Underwater

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Google Earth, Green News, Environment, Science, Endangered Species, Oceans, Green Living, Technology, Green News

Google took two dives today, plunging into the red along with other tech stocks, and splashing into the great blue deep with a new 3-D mapping tool for the ocean floor.

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