From the darkness emerges a boot. An old leather, steel-toed, work boot. It shouldn’t be there resting on the seafloor nearly two kilometers deep. I’m…
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Category: Conservation & Environment
The Beauty of Rarity
Legend has it that Saint Patrick gave a four-leaf clover to a group of his followers; the fourth leaf put there by God to bring…
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The Ocean Cleanup struggles to prove it will not harm sea life
I am deeply concerned that a project intending to collect plastic from the ocean’s surface, known as The Ocean Cleanup, will sweep up countless floating…
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The (ocean) physics of The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001
The following is a guest post by Dr. Clark Richards, a physical oceanographer at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. It was originally…
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The Continued Boondoggle of the Ocean Cleanup
boon·dog·gle /ˈbo͞onˌdäɡəl/ noun: work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. verb: waste money or time on unnecessary…
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Wooden Homes on the Seafloor Yield Insights Into the Impacts of Climate Change
Nearly two miles below the ocean’s surface, we are building new worlds. You might be surprised that these ecospheres are wooden—little log cabins hosting a…
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Embracing Yes/Also: Marine Protected Areas Are Not An Either/Or Proposition
Ocean science and conservation, like any human enterprise, is subject to its fair share of internal messiness from time to time. As someone whose expertise…
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Jellyfish fishing: A multi-million dollar industry
Check out this incredible video of jellyfishing (aka ‘jellyballing’). The first part of the video, with the brown-colored jellyfish, is from the US state of Georgia,…
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Drawing Connections
Art is my favorite way to communicate science. It’s the language that transcends boundaries. For the past couple of months, I have been working with…
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David Cassidy, 70’s heartthrob and star of The Partridge Family, died today at age 67. In November of 1970, his hit song, “I Think I…
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