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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
Josie Garthwaite

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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Environmental Implosion

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

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

So where is the $700 billion bailout package to avoid an environmental implosion? Ecological crisis has implications far beyond your 401k, but no traction in Washington or on Main Street.

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McCain, a Fish Story, and Iraq

David Quigg | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Rigs, John McCain, Debate, Fish, Oil, Election 2008, Oceans, Iraq, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Politics News
David Quigg

This is one of those weird situations where I'd feel better about a McCain presidency if I believed the senator was simply lying, but I think his brain filter is just that good.

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How Robert De Niro Should Deal with the Nobu Tuna Scandal

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 10.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fish, Conservation, Sushi, Tuna, Oceans, Bluefin Tuna, Robert DeNiro, Robert De Niro, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

Nobu, which De Niro co-owns, tried to keep its flaying of the fish on the down-low, but was exposed by the environmental watchdog Greenpeace.

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Our Oceans' Long Goodbye

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Oceans, Global Warming, Fish, Dead Zones, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

Besieged on all sides by overfishing, climate change, pollution and habitat destruction, the world's oceans are slowly but inevitably undergoing a long and painful transition.

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Terrorists or Heroes? Sea Shepherd Fights for Marine Life

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green Business, Cruelty to Animals, Oceans, Animals, Whales, Greenpeace, Global Warming, Boats, Antartica Ice, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

There's nothing like a few photos of clubbed seals to get the crowd all hot and bothered -- but is this really the best way?

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Plastic Island: Ocean Currents Funnel Trash

New York Times | Donovan Hohn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Plastic Island, Oceans, Plastic Bottles, Pollution, Plastic Bags, Water Pollution, Green News

Off Gore Point, where tide rips collide, the rolling swells rear up and steepen into whitecaps. Quiet with concentration, Chris Pallister decelerates ...

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Ted Danson's Environmental Epiphany

Variety | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Oceans, Ted Danson, Green News

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Rule, Britannia? UK To Lay Claim To Vast Swaths Of South Atlantic

The Guardian (U.K.) | Owen Bowcott | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: England, Oil and Gas Exploration, Britannia, Falkland Islands, Great Britain, Natural Gas, South Atlantic, Oil, Atlantic Ocean, United Kingdon, Oceans, Rule, Home News

Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Ro...

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