tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33904261450980062302024-02-20T22:17:18.313-08:00It's Your Ocean. Do Something About it!Give us five minutes each week and we will deliver an ocean of news.Sea Savehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596242346925689384noreply@blogger.comBlogger361125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-15075489197391037982020-11-06T08:02:00.004-08:002020-11-06T09:15:18.681-08:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" Nov 6, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: times;"><b>US a top source of plastic pollution in coastal environments</b><b>, </b>DNA in seawater can reveal fish diversity in the deep ocean, </b><b style="font-family: times;">Location and extent of coral reefs mapped worldwide using advanced AI, </b><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Antarctic Commission rejects proposed marine sanctuaries </b><b style="font-family: times;">and more.</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>1. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Management of exploited transboundary fish stocks requires international cooperation</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNjMbNFdlYFeOEf-EobOTcQ3mhQ1GsGy4UdSn3nV9ufBilDZhpUAxmbepVjJGZPZKB4A1MClQbChdDUUsKxeEF8qpVA1rH_PwMv653cASSVKY-ljmTwc_uauiYMFZBxkMZ061y_MOJbMU/s1920/123485496_2844167752572459_342619261669519156_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1079" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNjMbNFdlYFeOEf-EobOTcQ3mhQ1GsGy4UdSn3nV9ufBilDZhpUAxmbepVjJGZPZKB4A1MClQbChdDUUsKxeEF8qpVA1rH_PwMv653cASSVKY-ljmTwc_uauiYMFZBxkMZ061y_MOJbMU/s320/123485496_2844167752572459_342619261669519156_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Marine fish species are migratory in nature and not respectful of human-made territorial boundaries, which represents a challenge for fisheries management as policies tend to focus at the national level. With an average catch of 48 million tonnes per year, and USD $77 billion in annual fishing revenue, these species support critical fisheries and require international cooperation to manage, according to UBC research. The researchers focused on fish species that cross the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of two or more coastal states which are most often targeted by fisheries operating within those EEZs. They identified over 633 exploited transboundary species worldwide and found that the catch and revenue from these fisheries had been severely underestimated and over-exploited.<br /><br /><b><i>Sea Save Editorial Comment: This article underscores our tagline "Oceans do not recognize international boundaries. We must work globally if we want to see real change."</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://oceans.ubc.ca/2020/10/21/transboundary/">Read more in "University of British Columbia"</a></div><div><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;">2. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Antarctic Commission rejects proposed marine sanctuaries</b></span></p><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEBdPTCf7HRzFcdn-dK8i44VAI14SRTqTZRoRA3ATIa6k41JUz5bfFFN3zhdu3gjUEgkW9kfpqCyfP62U4FwChyzsBQgUMKe12EMmVu-jBDaI5B5v4kZj2iX3V_rMoqQLlUHdBlvN6JQ/s590/E1DE91D3-B111-462C-BBCBA9CDCF1CB0AA_source.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEBdPTCf7HRzFcdn-dK8i44VAI14SRTqTZRoRA3ATIa6k41JUz5bfFFN3zhdu3gjUEgkW9kfpqCyfP62U4FwChyzsBQgUMKe12EMmVu-jBDaI5B5v4kZj2iX3V_rMoqQLlUHdBlvN6JQ/s320/E1DE91D3-B111-462C-BBCBA9CDCF1CB0AA_source.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Delegates attending an international meeting meant to protect Antarctic ocean life dashed </span><span style="font-family: arial;">conservationists' hopes for new marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) concluded Friday after a week of virtual negotiations among its 26 member nations. It declined to approve three proposals for marine protected areas near Antarctica. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The commission, established in 1982 as part of the Antarctic Treaty System, is charged with conserving marine life around the southern continent and sustainably managing the region's fish stocks.</span></div><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"></p><p style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antarctic-commission-rejects-proposed-marine-sanctuaries/?fbclid=IwAR37HIBHVdYN_f9g0KBUtlxm23Bn8pQ7zsNFUcdn-XJrWe8nILlE8lvNNYU">Read more in "Scientific American"</a></span></p></div></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b>3. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>New study reveals US a top source of plastic pollution in coastal environments</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmjQ80PBunzdB2lRtC1wRG9MpiG_uE_ri_OJ3eGeNe3Pldghq-YR8PSuFf1lfalY-bA3tlTqrLVjm8IAdNWpt8kI2kWDQ_JdVdHfOoBCAw9tzCiiG0WkSBOCgzJoG2woUv4ilue5QoeY/s800/5f9be53348d0e.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmjQ80PBunzdB2lRtC1wRG9MpiG_uE_ri_OJ3eGeNe3Pldghq-YR8PSuFf1lfalY-bA3tlTqrLVjm8IAdNWpt8kI2kWDQ_JdVdHfOoBCAw9tzCiiG0WkSBOCgzJoG2woUv4ilue5QoeY/s320/5f9be53348d0e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A study published today in the journal Science Advances has revealed that the United States ranks as high as third among countries contributing to coastal plastic pollution when taking into account its scrap plastic exports as well as the latest figures on illegal dumping and littering in the country. The new research challenges the once-held assumption that the United States is adequately “managing” – that is, collecting and properly landfilling, recycling or otherwise containing – its plastic waste. </span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201030142125.htm?fbclid=IwAR3Ixb_6stDmKNmKy1pBZeiJaC12XqgzLSjS3NwfbdTmCJqssGzbQAjcqss" style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "Science Daily"</a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">and</span></div><div><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288" style="font-family: arial;">Read original study</a></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><b>4. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">Giant iceberg floating toward island in the Atlantic Ocean, could endanger wildlife</b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1wUf6Cmow_cHiBLDiyXBuSbHHJboHp2rf_wKqLDCpze_ygGnsxQiFESX00rQEAXFszsKwZfNADbl2eVrxJrG4iMAO3aZvJqOsijhM2e0DF3G6tRjYSiLtzRFZGzH9gaZ5l_GRs-j_cs/s1268/Screen+Shot+2020-11-05+at+2.21.11+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="1268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1wUf6Cmow_cHiBLDiyXBuSbHHJboHp2rf_wKqLDCpze_ygGnsxQiFESX00rQEAXFszsKwZfNADbl2eVrxJrG4iMAO3aZvJqOsijhM2e0DF3G6tRjYSiLtzRFZGzH9gaZ5l_GRs-j_cs/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-11-05+at+2.21.11+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>An iceberg about the size of Delaware could hit the island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, according to the British Antarctic Survey, potentially harming local wildlife. The British government research organization said in a statement Wednesday that the exact path of the iceberg, which broke off from Antarctica in 2017, is not known. Geraint Tarling, an ecologist at British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement that if the iceberg gets stuck against South Georgia, a U.K. territory, it could remain for 10 years. </div></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/524455-giant-iceberg-floating-toward-island-in-the-atlantic-ocean-could?fbclid=IwAR0LFgUmMMjp5TiRnynW5AoIasyLEjaXQXj13uT_z9b5pLnjQgzG23Xa6bE">Read more in "The Hill"</a></span></p></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>5. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">Gentoo penguins are four species, not one, say scientists</b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWoC1fRhqE5tsOasTk2kLlGt5Ya4q19YERDrSgaTZXhgJZ7I8ICIntALNRLcOzXeQMSuHqda7p127x7N_QbMyYyV6nQZMikmtJSqg64DEf40LOmfVeivp4sVucIo_T5mRxunGp5qolJ-U/s1024/50562932817_451799423a_b.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWoC1fRhqE5tsOasTk2kLlGt5Ya4q19YERDrSgaTZXhgJZ7I8ICIntALNRLcOzXeQMSuHqda7p127x7N_QbMyYyV6nQZMikmtJSqg64DEf40LOmfVeivp4sVucIo_T5mRxunGp5qolJ-U/s320/50562932817_451799423a_b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Gentoo penguins should be reclassified as four separate species, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, after analyzing the genetic and physical </span><span style="font-family: arial;">differences between populations around the southern hemisphere. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The researchers say that counting them as four separate species will aid in their conservation because it will make it easier to monitor any decline in numbers. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Gentoo penguins, with the Latin name <i>Pygoscelis papua</i>, live in a range of latitudes in the southern hemisphere and are currently split into two subspecies. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The researchers suggest these two subspecies should be raised to species level and two new species created.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/gentoo-penguins-are-four-species-not-one-say-scientists/">Read more in "University of Bath"</a></span></div></div><p><b style="font-family: times;">6. </b><b style="font-family: times;">Location and extent of coral reefs mapped worldwide using advanced AI</b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1tt0gIo7gsYcXnYGKU3OPlYJF6qs21AbILzBn3OeKLFxWQTZHf7yOL59JbV4EqhNyts6IMKBJQ_KAKWu1TEXeeex3P1NrmtWS-1h8_Po-CCQE63X-drn6hgoJ5Qvf9A0RWe3z2fxcGo/s1920/jiwei_0.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1tt0gIo7gsYcXnYGKU3OPlYJF6qs21AbILzBn3OeKLFxWQTZHf7yOL59JbV4EqhNyts6IMKBJQ_KAKWu1TEXeeex3P1NrmtWS-1h8_Po-CCQE63X-drn6hgoJ5Qvf9A0RWe3z2fxcGo/s320/jiwei_0.png" width="320" /></a></div>Nearly 75% of the world's coral reefs are under threat from global stressors such as climate change and local stressors such as overfishing and coastal development. Those working to understand and protect coral reefs are building the know-how to mitigate the damage but doing so requires first knowing where reefs are located. Many approaches, such as diver-based observation and satellite imagery, have been used to estimate the distribution of coral reefs around the world, but past approaches have led to inconsistent accuracy because the underlying data are derived from disparate sources and varying methodologies. Now, researchers from the Arizona State University Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science (GDCS) have generated a global coral reef extent map using a single methodology capable of predicting the location of shallow coral reefs with nearly 90% accuracy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://asunow.asu.edu/20201027-location-extent-coral-reefs-mapped-worldwide-using-advanced-ai">Read more in "Arizona State University"</a></span></div></span></div><p><b style="font-family: times;">7. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>'Environmentally-friendly' tableware harms marine animals</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6Zo3hq90mULtEayHX7SFmdF5vmQFirDGX0kodVOYmsz5EfEsqmZVkhFMYJsI_34BUfX4tEfjbVamOOWSbG9QrNU3NMDrplfYDiCJYN3MB9VOpEZDI6FXxveh52AQ8hu-Q4Em_c2XvTs/s660/shutterstock_1101428288.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6Zo3hq90mULtEayHX7SFmdF5vmQFirDGX0kodVOYmsz5EfEsqmZVkhFMYJsI_34BUfX4tEfjbVamOOWSbG9QrNU3NMDrplfYDiCJYN3MB9VOpEZDI6FXxveh52AQ8hu-Q4Em_c2XvTs/s320/shutterstock_1101428288.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">A new Tel Aviv University study compares the effects of two types of disposable dishes on the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">marine environment — regular plastic disposable dishes and more expensive bioplastic disposable dishes certified by various international organizations — and determines that the bioplastic dishes had a similar effect on marine animals as regular plastic dishes. Moreover, the study finds that bioplastic does not degrade rapidly in the marine environment. </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://aftau.org/news_item/tau-study-finds-environmentally-friendly-disposable-tableware-has-negative-effects-on-marine-animals/">Read more in "Tel Aviv University"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><b>8. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">DNA in seawater can reveal fish diversity in the deep ocean</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzD8M0QLWWyAuozfCFw4xeeepX9KcOTVZjpRipBAZ6OwoeE_cR3hY4mWL60SUvbyH4F7qq13gOKV1MkcTCI148sfSyYYl4u9CYQ9t55xQrYT1m-MpqTQAIoP6xx2F0RDj6wfSXH2EAUE/s800/dnainseawate.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzD8M0QLWWyAuozfCFw4xeeepX9KcOTVZjpRipBAZ6OwoeE_cR3hY4mWL60SUvbyH4F7qq13gOKV1MkcTCI148sfSyYYl4u9CYQ9t55xQrYT1m-MpqTQAIoP6xx2F0RDj6wfSXH2EAUE/s320/dnainseawate.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a novel method for using DNA in seawater samples to determine which fish species are present in a given part of the deep sea. A team of scientists from eDNAtec Inc. and colleagues from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Memorial University present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on November 4. The ability to monitor deep-sea fish diversity is necessary for implementing sustainable management efforts and understanding the impacts of commercial fishing and climate change. However, existing methods such as baited camera traps, trawling, and acoustic monitoring, have limited detection capabilities and are difficult to use in much of the ocean.</div></div></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-11-dna-seawater-reveal-fish-diversity.html">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p></div><p><b style="font-family: times;">9. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Sea-level rise will have complex and unpredictable effects on coasts and human societies </b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXeMb0t7deUWHVTUa6Hwi3r49p-I4mMwN5M40hsUcRqlbTIZuK4HmHtemd5DuH-q0It-MhPYg7Tjrl4BhAYdBYnW_oaszDZvXv7iC7GiDN_k1FgxWpo23zWkf0BMbIHVc8DBQo-HNFxg/s800/10-sealevelrise.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXeMb0t7deUWHVTUa6Hwi3r49p-I4mMwN5M40hsUcRqlbTIZuK4HmHtemd5DuH-q0It-MhPYg7Tjrl4BhAYdBYnW_oaszDZvXv7iC7GiDN_k1FgxWpo23zWkf0BMbIHVc8DBQo-HNFxg/s320/10-sealevelrise.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Rising sea levels will affect coasts and human societies in complex and unpredictable ways, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">according to a new study that examined 12,000 years in which a large island became a cluster of smaller ones. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Researchers reconstructed sea-level rise to produce maps of coastal changes at thousand-year intervals and found that today's Isles of Scilly, off the UK's south-west coast, emerged from a single island that only became the current configuration of more than 140 islands less than 1,000 years ago. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The study, led by the University of Exeter in partnership with Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cardiff University and 14 other institutes, found that changes in both land area and human cultures happened at variable rates, and often out of step with the prevailing rate of sea-level rise.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_823958_en.html">Read more in "University of Exeter"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>10. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Genomic data ‘catches corals in the act’ of speciation and adaptation</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9m7lrlECcceLESCQpru4w_Pxu_9ckXBPqUuOUgBKyaWJuzjhjc_CcqfTsIj1F5GULYia930qd91tgZYib-SUHuWknr-MBsQGLg0Udm8VOBFkyREaVwgSNyI8JYTSHTNzeYBWxXrGf70/s1868/Screen-Shot-2020-10-30-at-2.04.12-PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9m7lrlECcceLESCQpru4w_Pxu_9ckXBPqUuOUgBKyaWJuzjhjc_CcqfTsIj1F5GULYia930qd91tgZYib-SUHuWknr-MBsQGLg0Udm8VOBFkyREaVwgSNyI8JYTSHTNzeYBWxXrGf70/s320/Screen-Shot-2020-10-30-at-2.04.12-PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div>A new study led by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) revealed that diversity in Hawaiian corals is likely driven by co-evolution between the coral host, the algal symbiont, and the microbial community. As coral reef ecosystems have rapidly collapsed around the globe over the past few decades, there is widespread concern that corals might not be able to adapt to changing climate conditions, and much of the biodiversity in these ecosystems could be lost before it is studied and understood. Coral reefs are among the most highly biodiverse ecosystems on earth, yet it is not clear what drives speciation and diversification in the ocean, where there are few physical barriers that could separate populations.</div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/announce/news/genomic-data-catches-corals-in-the-act-of-speciation-and-adaptation/" style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</a></div></div><p><b style="font-family: times;">11. Coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered near Australia</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkVQXEt6zBPzrPK-1wVZyfJJsrdrBRx8eTlfZzDdmiW25IJEjOp8AoTYbaHfFdzNUww7QkKS0BFlQWT_cihyphenhyphendgaBc52ZnTbx7ob63Q6AgJIpd5UlZrrslxqQaUFvlBf8xxjcN2vL_0El0/s2560/FK200930_DetachedReef_8-1-scaled.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="977" data-original-width="2560" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkVQXEt6zBPzrPK-1wVZyfJJsrdrBRx8eTlfZzDdmiW25IJEjOp8AoTYbaHfFdzNUww7QkKS0BFlQWT_cihyphenhyphendgaBc52ZnTbx7ob63Q6AgJIpd5UlZrrslxqQaUFvlBf8xxjcN2vL_0El0/w385-h146/FK200930_DetachedReef_8-1-scaled.jpg" width="385" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Scientists have discovered a massive detached coral reef in the Great Barrier Reef–the first to be discovered in over 120 years, Schmidt Ocean Institute announced today. Measuring more than 500m high–taller than the Empire State Building, the Sydney Tower and the Petronas Twin Towers–the reef was discovered by Australian scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor, currently on a 12-month exploration of the ocean surrounding Australia. </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span>The reef was first found on Oct. 20, as a team of scientists led by Dr. Robin Beaman from James Cook University was conducting underwater mapping of the northern Great Barrier Reef seafloor. The dive was live-streamed, with the </span><span>high-resolution footage viewed for the first time and broadcast on Schmidt Ocean Institute’s website and YouTube channel.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://schmidtocean.org/australian-scientists-discover-500-meter-tall-coral-reef-in-the-great-barrier-reef-first-to-be-discovered-in-over-120-years/" style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Read more in "Schmidt Ocean Institute"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>12. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Light pollution at night severely disrupts the reproductive cycle of corals</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EyVJn4ft4CgFBTVVaT534H1MsqviHqbmqRNpmiD9p2UWOBTwAARMr9DZBBia7nj9876CDOKkDFs-svrRrGJE2zs1HPCIkLVAsw6xY5ICb5GUA74LlEnLHEy75_rB5wKEyfmbER3q6wk/s800/5fa3e20595cbf.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EyVJn4ft4CgFBTVVaT534H1MsqviHqbmqRNpmiD9p2UWOBTwAARMr9DZBBia7nj9876CDOKkDFs-svrRrGJE2zs1HPCIkLVAsw6xY5ICb5GUA74LlEnLHEy75_rB5wKEyfmbER3q6wk/s320/5fa3e20595cbf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Studying the reproductive cycle of two coral species from the Indo-Pacific Ocean over the course of three months, researchers found that light pollution caused delayed gametogenesis and unsynchronized gamete release. To shed light on the findings, they created a first-of-its-kind global map that highlights areas in the world most threatened by nighttime artificial light. This light pollution impact assessment can help incorporate an important variable in coral reef conservation planning near areas of human activity.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-11-pollution-night-severely-disrupts-reproductive.html">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></div><div><p style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: times;">13. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Sea turtle nesting season winding down in Florida, numbers unexpectedly high</b></span></p><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNxQRsEPSN6RXvo9fHsDF2yf76cCmFSisgqHUkx5l4zhsuOYDRw_1KkGhZJ2CAqDj5rOKMttN3w5zOQoItjUm86JfSbFFm32RmfoUXz0b8g-_iX4inIeXaurP11yOlndeZQS9DE90S34/s1200/WebTurtle2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNxQRsEPSN6RXvo9fHsDF2yf76cCmFSisgqHUkx5l4zhsuOYDRw_1KkGhZJ2CAqDj5rOKMttN3w5zOQoItjUm86JfSbFFm32RmfoUXz0b8g-_iX4inIeXaurP11yOlndeZQS9DE90S34/s320/WebTurtle2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Florida’s sea turtle nesting surveying comes to a close on Halloween and like everything else in </span><span style="font-family: arial;">2020, the season was a bit weird. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The number of green sea turtle nests on central and southern Brevard County, Florida beaches monitored by University of Central Florida biologists were way up during a year they should have been down based on nearly 40 years of historical data. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">“Usually, green turtles alternate between high years and low years, but this year they defied expectations,” says Chris Long, a doctoral candidate and research assistant with UCF’s Marine Turtle Research Group. “Green turtles had the fifth highest year on the Archie Carr Refuge that we’ve recorded since 1982. There is no evidence pointing to high nesting as a result of fewer people on the beaches or anything pandemic-related like that. It’s difficult to know why nesting differed from expectation.”</span></div></span></div><p style="font-family: Times;"></p><p style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.ucf.edu/news/sea-turtle-nesting-season-winding-down-some-numbers-are-up-and-its-unexpected/">Read more in "University of Central Florida - Today"</a></span></p></div></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> ----------------------------------------------- </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></p>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-4482856793265741532020-10-29T18:20:00.005-07:002020-10-30T10:19:22.383-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" Oct 30, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p><b style="font-family: times;">New study reveals shark fins originated mostly from species in coastal waters rather than the open ocean, Oil tanker stranded at sea carrying 1.3 million barrels, Critically endangered beluga whale population, The uncertain future of the oceans and more.</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>1. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Illegal trade of shark fins from coastal species, not open ocean</b></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHtPme4ksNB9VvrNYmbf0KyACrusX5EThKcebW6pYsVrKqLqQjpJOMSUd_gkcA4YNmYy804o3Qwmtl6Ch3xxgeiIyxJdAIA4xeGWseHqeB8k1OquTuZFsso2PCB0yk4zkWfrSb6KCoMXw/s1492/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+1.04.18+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHtPme4ksNB9VvrNYmbf0KyACrusX5EThKcebW6pYsVrKqLqQjpJOMSUd_gkcA4YNmYy804o3Qwmtl6Ch3xxgeiIyxJdAIA4xeGWseHqeB8k1OquTuZFsso2PCB0yk4zkWfrSb6KCoMXw/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+1.04.18+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The new study, published October 28th in Biology Letters, helps shed light on the intricate shark fin trade in two main ways. First, the team used DNA barcoding techniques to analyze 500 shark fin samples from four market locations — Hong Kong, Vancouver, San Francisco, and northern Brazil — and identify which species they belonged to. While many samples came from oceanic species such as thresher sharks and hammerheads, most were identified as “requiem” shark species, such as reef sharks and silky sharks, which tend to live closer to the coast. Second, the team generated species distribution models to show where many of these shark fins were likely coming from. The study showed that the majority of shark fins came from the coastal regions of five countries: Australia, Indonesia, the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.</span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/efforts-to-tackle-shark-fin-trade-need-to-focus-closer-to-shore-study-says/" style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "Monga Bay"</a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">and</span></div><div><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0609" style="font-family: arial;">Read original study</a></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><b>2. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">A Venezuelan vessel carrying 1.3 million barrels of oil is tilting and stranded at sea</b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5cqDNY_hetQ_1ZnrJPdnR6IMcv-_VBNTsJ-b_uZrGWPJMfDZf_ijmnTpczLr9Aj2tThhUFJAtz3aHNfjot9ZwxNQYD5uMQyk5f_MaXjmDiQDYHp6y3skVr2UtgLexS63D3vUBvthLlNE/s1240/2020-10-17t015147z-1737825539-rc21kj9xu2rc-rtrmadp-3-pdvsa-eni-vessel.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="1240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5cqDNY_hetQ_1ZnrJPdnR6IMcv-_VBNTsJ-b_uZrGWPJMfDZf_ijmnTpczLr9Aj2tThhUFJAtz3aHNfjot9ZwxNQYD5uMQyk5f_MaXjmDiQDYHp6y3skVr2UtgLexS63D3vUBvthLlNE/s320/2020-10-17t015147z-1737825539-rc21kj9xu2rc-rtrmadp-3-pdvsa-eni-vessel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A vessel filled with 1.3 million barrels of crude oil is floating 24 miles off Venezuela in the Gulf of Paria, a region home to economically important fisheries and vulnerable marine life. The FSO Nabarima, a stationary storage facility, has been pictured listing, rusting, and taking on water, sparking fears that it will spill its contents. The Nabarima holds five times more oil than what was spilled during the 1989 Exxon-Valdez disaster in Alaska. If even a fraction of it spilled, it would create an environmental disaster that extends into the Caribbean Sea and could last for years. As of late last week the Maduro government has reportedly begun the process of taking the crude back to Venezuelan soil, a process that may in itself present an environmental hazard.</div></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2020/10/stranded-venezuelan-oil-tanker-potential-disaster-what-we-know/">Read more in "National Geographic"</a></span></p></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>3. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">Study sheds light on critically endangered beluga whale population</b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDigQiy7H2-Ik3NIfDykW7Wj5GOHHEN3PCwtvkC1xGM-YPN6pXdx8q21q_0gUppkpwAe3N_NfubdmZy4987VAtScwElllYHPsnG8zwpvpaWtUmbWnGdOY7JwBipeBrDY-X0kUPI8DFTwI/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+12.54.21+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDigQiy7H2-Ik3NIfDykW7Wj5GOHHEN3PCwtvkC1xGM-YPN6pXdx8q21q_0gUppkpwAe3N_NfubdmZy4987VAtScwElllYHPsnG8zwpvpaWtUmbWnGdOY7JwBipeBrDY-X0kUPI8DFTwI/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+12.54.21+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>A team of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and NOAA Fisheries are collaborating to help stem the decline of a critically endangered population of beluga whales in the Cook Inlet, Alaska. A study recently published in Animal Microbiome outlines important first steps in understanding epidermal microbial communities in beluga whales, as well as their role in beluga health. This study is one piece of a larger puzzle for researchers looking at everything from social structure to acoustic interference and contaminants, all with the shared mission to reverse the dire decline of this vulnerable population.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/study-sheds-light-on-critically-endangered-beluga-whale-population/">Read more in "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution"</a></span></div></div><p><b style="font-family: times;">4. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Genome and satellite technology reveal impacts of climate change on southern right whales</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-uOvg1CcWfpb-_9e9HOk6ZW6wY5EpcbgaqmwN7tgpW6JlWgHf53XGdBnd9batBLiMonKb0_ce1C983jG-HxCalW1RnhYTCXn0RjmUL56h-GQZkzp6JyfJfalBl9nZBcZ1w0UxSYMVSk/s800/genomeandsat.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-uOvg1CcWfpb-_9e9HOk6ZW6wY5EpcbgaqmwN7tgpW6JlWgHf53XGdBnd9batBLiMonKb0_ce1C983jG-HxCalW1RnhYTCXn0RjmUL56h-GQZkzp6JyfJfalBl9nZBcZ1w0UxSYMVSk/s320/genomeandsat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">After close to a decade of globe-spanning effort, the genome of the southern right whale has </span><span style="font-family: arial;">been released this week, giving us deeper insights into the histories and recovery of whale populations across the southern hemisphere. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Up to 150,000 southern right whales were killed between 1790 and 1980. This whaling drove the global population from perhaps 100,000 to as few as 500 whales in 1920. A century on, we estimate there are 12,000 southern right whales globally. It's a remarkable conservation success story, but one facing new challenges. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The genome represents a record of the different impacts a species has faced. With statistical models we can use genomic information to reconstruct historical population trajectories and patterns of how species interacted and diverged.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/genome-and-satellite-technology-reveal-recovery-rates-and-impacts-of-climate-change-on-southern-right-whales-147168">Read more in "The Conversation"</a></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;">5. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Leaving big fish in the sea reduces CO2 emissions</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMoSfYT6uuWt3Z2QT-IZjMBklJbPnaVOXz9ppLbsJk3e6QcjnWpPhGqqAQz3L4UPPB3mlGbCknb5HMPmPUCXJuz1sF9WhmO-p86jsb4UnF0-CKFNsrWZTo8FZ09GoeiVfTJ_Qw76ZdO8/s1182/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+12.47.44+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMoSfYT6uuWt3Z2QT-IZjMBklJbPnaVOXz9ppLbsJk3e6QcjnWpPhGqqAQz3L4UPPB3mlGbCknb5HMPmPUCXJuz1sF9WhmO-p86jsb4UnF0-CKFNsrWZTo8FZ09GoeiVfTJ_Qw76ZdO8/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+12.47.44+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">An international team of scientists has found leaving more big fish in the sea reduces the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the Earth's atmosphere. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">When a fish dies in the ocean it sinks to the depths, sequestering all the carbon it contains with it. This is a form of 'blue carbon'—carbon captured and stored by the world's ocean and coastal ecosystems. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">"But when a fish is caught, the carbon it contains is partly emitted into the atmosphere as CO2 a few days or weeks after," said Gaël Mariani, a Ph.D. student at the University of Montpellier in France. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Mariani led a world-first study showing how ocean fisheries have released at least 730 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere since 1950. An estimated 20.4 metric tons of CO2 was emitted in 2014—equivalent to the annual emissions of 4.5 million cars.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-10-big-fish-sea-co2-emissions.html">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;">6. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Metals from Chinese coal plants are ending up in Pacific Ocean, consequences uncertain</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4UvW1-oaC8YVc9lV2vFrLTCTj6obV38q8ReVdTQlpwZJuOmCDLC036VMLfMp8Zioe2-lwLWJurVz3SW0mBcW74bAA1V2VXxf4_ryr4SAuSHEVw4cfXEntkxZAQLiV-X2cDKHIB0Gtw0/s1536/Beijing-coal-power-plant-web-1536x1024.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4UvW1-oaC8YVc9lV2vFrLTCTj6obV38q8ReVdTQlpwZJuOmCDLC036VMLfMp8Zioe2-lwLWJurVz3SW0mBcW74bAA1V2VXxf4_ryr4SAuSHEVw4cfXEntkxZAQLiV-X2cDKHIB0Gtw0/s320/Beijing-coal-power-plant-web-1536x1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Emissions from coal-fired power plants in China are fertilizing the North Pacific Ocean with a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">metal nutrient important for marine life, according to new findings from a USC-led research team. The researchers believe these metals could change the ocean ecosystem, though it’s unclear whether it would be for better or worse. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The study shows that smoke from power plants carries iron and other metals to the surface waters of the North Pacific Ocean as westerly winds blow emissions from Asia to North America. Peak measurements show that up to nearly 60% of the iron in one vast swath of the northern part of the ocean emanates from smokestacks.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.usc.edu/177687/metals-chinese-coal-plants-pacific-ocean-marine-life-usc-research/">Read more in "University of Southern California News"</a></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;">7. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Study reveals complex effects of CO2 on marine ecosystems</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjko5qQxaP8kvhK1HmS7mkYRKAZjLlfIa6eeOq32U17JlsQIIY9m-8TFht1hrCq1NHjYqN7L-aHaDO5zQf1m8Bzn8mZe2UwgZeacI35oIKIlVPRzvT9-ga5FPBnf0VXxe6bB9Y9Jd9N8fA/s1152/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+11.57.45+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjko5qQxaP8kvhK1HmS7mkYRKAZjLlfIa6eeOq32U17JlsQIIY9m-8TFht1hrCq1NHjYqN7L-aHaDO5zQf1m8Bzn8mZe2UwgZeacI35oIKIlVPRzvT9-ga5FPBnf0VXxe6bB9Y9Jd9N8fA/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-29+at+11.57.45+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The ocean plays a key role in the current climate change, as it absorbs a considerable part of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the atmospheric carbon dioxide emitted by mankind. On the one hand, this slows down the heating of the climate, and on the other hand, the dissolution of CO2 in seawater leads to acidification of the oceans. This has far-reaching consequences for many marine organisms and thus also for the oceanic carbon cycle. One of the most important mechanisms in this cycle is called the biological carbon pump. Part of the biomass that phytoplankton forms in the surface ocean through photosynthesis sinks to the depths in the form of small carbonaceous particles. As a result, the carbon is stored for a long time in the deep sea. The ocean thus acts as a carbon sink in the climate system. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The study, which has now been published in the journal Nature Climate Change, is one of the most comprehensive studies so far on the effects of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/kohlenstoffkreislauf">Read more in "GEOMAR"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>8. Critically e</b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>ndangered vaquita remain genetically healthy even in low numbers</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyznFqbYvRRcbXF5D5lW1D5-5I5DSlWzNm5L0sQKCHW5oNa5hZoDhtDS50uOISb_q4v2a03TSaAfaEZMsDTODEUBDZ2tezvWBH8fBgr581QAXzRB73UNeoUbqgPexeVVii5BcKV1ZFHg/s1260/swimming-vaquitas.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="1260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyznFqbYvRRcbXF5D5lW1D5-5I5DSlWzNm5L0sQKCHW5oNa5hZoDhtDS50uOISb_q4v2a03TSaAfaEZMsDTODEUBDZ2tezvWBH8fBgr581QAXzRB73UNeoUbqgPexeVVii5BcKV1ZFHg/s320/swimming-vaquitas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The critically endangered vaquita has survived in low numbers in its native Gulf of California for hundreds of thousands of years, a new genetic analysis has found. The study found little sign of inbreeding or other risks often associated with small populations. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Gillnet fisheries have entangled and killed thousands of vaquitas in recent years and scientists believe that fewer than 20 of the small porpoises survive today. The new analysis demonstrates that the species’ small numbers do not doom it to extinction, however, and so gives hope for the small remaining population. Vaquitas have long survived and even thrived without falling into an “extinction vortex,” the new study showed. That’s a scenario in which their limited genetic diversity makes it impossible to recover.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Editorial Note: The vaquita dolphin is considered the most endangered marine mammal and estimates project that there are only 6 - 22 individual left.</b></i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/endangered-vaquita-remain-genetically-healthy-even-low-numbers-new-analysis-shows" style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"</a></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>9. First ever recording captured </b></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">of remora fish hitchhiking on blue whales</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirPYV9LrpjxM7SIbte8Ktpj-nEg6RCDsnoCEZOt27jQetXs5DDOWAQLVCS0eKj2Xm31fGeo5Cf5iuUCLqoAVERaJP46MlVoDGr3o0WQjFo2diOjRIdL3TS-H6C164aTyz7uCVUGF0R9YU/s1140/Image-2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirPYV9LrpjxM7SIbte8Ktpj-nEg6RCDsnoCEZOt27jQetXs5DDOWAQLVCS0eKj2Xm31fGeo5Cf5iuUCLqoAVERaJP46MlVoDGr3o0WQjFo2diOjRIdL3TS-H6C164aTyz7uCVUGF0R9YU/s320/Image-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Sticking to the bodies of sharks and other larger marine life is a well-known specialty of remora fishes (Echeneidae) and their super-powered suction disks on their heads. But a new study has now fully documented the “suckerfish” in hitchhiking action below the ocean’s surface, uncovering a much more refined skillset that the fish uses for navigating intense hydrodynamics that come with trying to ride aboard a 100-foot blue whale (<i>Balaenoptera musculus</i>). In a study published Oct. 28 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, an international team of researchers studying the unique fluid environments of blue whales traveling off the coast of Palos Verdes and San Diego, CA has reported capturing the first-ever continuous recording of remora behavior on a host organism, using advanced biosensing tags with video recording capabilities. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.njit.edu/first-ocean-recordings-hitchhiking-remoras-uncovers-fishs-secret-surfing-life-aboard-blue-whales">Read more in "New Jersey Institute of Technology"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>10. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Coastal Greenland reshaped as ice sheet loss accelerates</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjND12h1XiPBuTHjdmTu1WnQPnPmLbOtnaYxBlRh9SD93YaQU6dSBDBfSP-X9xUtmRoYTd6B-_cLxxQkc-F4nkJldIbqKNT-VyDlfgdTqrsRGp4ZGV6euxpjIhKm5aNulEJGaGtoYE4RYM/s2048/6-greenlandice.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjND12h1XiPBuTHjdmTu1WnQPnPmLbOtnaYxBlRh9SD93YaQU6dSBDBfSP-X9xUtmRoYTd6B-_cLxxQkc-F4nkJldIbqKNT-VyDlfgdTqrsRGp4ZGV6euxpjIhKm5aNulEJGaGtoYE4RYM/s320/6-greenlandice.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accelerated significantly over the past two decades, transforming the shape of the ice sheet edge and therefore coastal Greenland, according to scientific research led by Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). These changes to the ice sheet could have far-reaching impacts on ecosystems and communities, as the flow of water under the ice sheet as well as nutrient and sediment flow are altered. Results of the research were published on October 27th in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. “The speed of ice loss in Greenland is stunning,” said Moon. “We can now see many signs of a transformed landscape from space. And as the ice sheet edge responds to rapid ice loss, the character and behavior of the system as a whole is changing, with the potential to influence ecosystems and people who depend on them.”</div></span></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/coastal-greenland-reshaped-greenland-ice-sheet-mass-loss-accelerates">Read more in "National Snow & Ice Data Center"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> ----------------------------------------------- </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></p>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-643198738234646952020-10-15T20:28:00.140-07:002020-10-23T10:16:39.671-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" Oct 23, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p><b style="font-family: times;"><b>A study of Palau's coral reefs, A quadrillion plastic fibers discovered in California's environment, Burger King moving towards zero-waste, </b></b><b style="font-family: times;">Sponges as biomonitors of micro pollution, </b><b style="font-family: times;"><b>and</b></b><b style="font-family: times;"> more.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>1. Shark fishing thrives in Myanmar due to lack of alternatives</b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiruX73WHhW5Gubt4slHZkB9duXabJJa6VAy2vDEP9j4Xvv0qI_wPD8jvl07EBfaJXmiJ-vdBuSNimmkss2v4iiTBcJOLGkmcngCtBWFyFHGp75_c58Jf3JR3jbGPFryEvlDnCbLQrgOpw/s2048/myeik-nights-07.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiruX73WHhW5Gubt4slHZkB9duXabJJa6VAy2vDEP9j4Xvv0qI_wPD8jvl07EBfaJXmiJ-vdBuSNimmkss2v4iiTBcJOLGkmcngCtBWFyFHGp75_c58Jf3JR3jbGPFryEvlDnCbLQrgOpw/s320/myeik-nights-07.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Achieving fisheries compliance is challenging in contexts where enforcement capacity is limited and the incentives for rule-breaking are strong. This challenge is exemplified in Myanmar, where an active shark fishery exists despite a nationwide ban on targeted shark fishing. We used the Kipling method (5W1H) to gather a complete story of non-compliance in five small-scale fishing communities in the Myeik Archipelago. Among 144 fishers surveyed, 49% were aware of the nationwide ban. Shark fishers (24%) tended to be younger individuals who did not own a boat and perceived shark fishing to be prevalent. Compliant fishers were motivated by a fear of sharks and lack of capacity (equipment, knowledge), whereas food and income were cited as key motivations for non-compliance. The results of our study emphasize that in resource-dependent communities, improving compliance for effective shark conservation may require addressing broader issues of poverty, food security and the lack of alternatives.</div></span><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-020-01400-1?fbclid=IwAR1nRR5UYMrMKEco5jv-pUSeSwEgcwxPWHoE-5AV6HZPxBuTjW19hrJAqDo" style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "Springer"</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>2. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">New marine animal deaths discovered off Russia’s Kamchatka coast</b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijL5ldMCazarpyPFSylHyWLSO54eAcUcZapMzeO51kEJyShnKzvFqQsXkjHj9rIrWz_5Fr0Bpb_spwm0X4dcwa0paxPG9uS7Mz6yQl_9JpCbn4xyZgnxoDOJQL8WHZkpzSJAR4kITTHvc/s1360/TASS41819932.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijL5ldMCazarpyPFSylHyWLSO54eAcUcZapMzeO51kEJyShnKzvFqQsXkjHj9rIrWz_5Fr0Bpb_spwm0X4dcwa0paxPG9uS7Mz6yQl_9JpCbn4xyZgnxoDOJQL8WHZkpzSJAR4kITTHvc/s320/TASS41819932.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>New mass deaths of marine animals have been discovered off the coast of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula where an unexplained event recently killed off up to 95% of seabed life, authorities said Monday. Scientists and witnesses reported seeing dead marine animals along the seabed south of the initial discovery last week, Kamchatka region governor Vladimir Solodov said on Instagram. Neighboring beaches, he said, were not affected. “The evidence shows that the scale of the occurrence is extremely large,” Solodov said. He said that the deaths were “almost certainly linked to climate change and other polluting effects we as humankind cause to the Pacific Ocean.” </span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/10/13/new-marine-animal-deaths-discovered-off-russias-kamchatka-coast-a71730">Read more in "Moscow Times"</a></span></div></div><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>3. </b></span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Palau's coral reefs: a jewel of the ocean</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhW3u9fXH3hxVshyphenhyphenhyphenhyphenUgkbl_nyAGOetG7ypyTbl4F1piNzJHSwZsj8Xvidd0yxcAWP0bKO9mLdCAOWsGxWe7gsnDWhZ5H-izqz0U1_u1D_eQ-pphb2Pie1lEgoppyy7i_HhQnBavAlH1A/s1440/246315_web.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="1440" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhW3u9fXH3hxVshyphenhyphenhyphenhyphenUgkbl_nyAGOetG7ypyTbl4F1piNzJHSwZsj8Xvidd0yxcAWP0bKO9mLdCAOWsGxWe7gsnDWhZ5H-izqz0U1_u1D_eQ-pphb2Pie1lEgoppyy7i_HhQnBavAlH1A/w327-h217/246315_web.jpg" width="327" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) [based in Annapolis, Maryland] have released their </span><span style="font-family: arial;">findings on the state of coral reefs in Palau. Their research, based on extensive underwater surveys, found Palau's reefs had the highest live coral cover of all the reefs studied on the Global Reef Expedition, a scientific research mission to assess the health and resiliency of coral reefs around the world. Published today, the Global Reef Expedition: The Republic of Palau Final Report summarizes the Foundation's research on the status of coral reefs and reef fish in Palau and provides conservation recommendations that can help preserve these outstanding coral reefs for generations to come.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/kbsl-pcr101920.php#:~:text=The%20latest%20report%20from%20the,and%20mapping%20expedition%20in%20history.">Read more in "EurekAlert!"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://t3g9m2b3.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Palau-Final-Report.pdf" style="font-family: arial;">Read original study</a></p><p><b style="font-family: times;">4. </b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Newly discovered gene may give 'sea pickles' their glow</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveXWQkDPr86hVkmq-lnjmT0toMO5kp0q0d6hXYUiD44ohIgXc66drxg9w-BNkSfr8pOOhjQ4f5vRwcaObdGKL4_CHAyynJMGGGWpvtWbXK6x5wOmdxG9BfX4SWNcHFTRfch_Dlry5zuo/s2048/pyrosoma-atlanticum-bioluminescence-2460-1384_wideexact_2460.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveXWQkDPr86hVkmq-lnjmT0toMO5kp0q0d6hXYUiD44ohIgXc66drxg9w-BNkSfr8pOOhjQ4f5vRwcaObdGKL4_CHAyynJMGGGWpvtWbXK6x5wOmdxG9BfX4SWNcHFTRfch_Dlry5zuo/s320/pyrosoma-atlanticum-bioluminescence-2460-1384_wideexact_2460.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">In 2017, a group of scientists in a submersible off the coast of Brazil were testing the ability of a soft robotic hand to collect delicate marine life when they grabbed a selection of gelatinous and glowing “sea pickles.” These sausage-sized pyrosomes <i>Pyrosoma atlanticum</i> are actually colonies of thousands of tiny animals—each with a heart and a brain—that work together to move, eat, breathe, and reverberate in blue-green light. Although they are widely known for their gigantic blooms and spectacular light—“pyrosoma” means “fire body” in Greek—many of the most basic facts about their bioluminescence remain elusive. So the expedition’s scientists began a second journey to determine the cause of these pyrosomes’ unique bioluminescent displays, which, unlike many bioluminescent animals, can be triggered by light. They found a new gene that could be the reason that pyrosomes and a number of other bioluminescent animals glow. If confirmed, it would be the first bioluminescent gene identified from a chordate—the group that includes all vertebrates as well as a couple types of invertebrates.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/research-posts/sea-pickle-glow-gene">Read more in "American Museum of Natural History"</a></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>5. </b></span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Groundbreaking study finds 13.3 quadrillion plastic fibers in California’s environment</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU3ojhMOM1qxBJlxKAQ2gDK8DHS0cce-Uq9D3EYh_H10ahjOZtHt_Nz9MjUZJ8VPrgtcfrBpWeksoD6DL6r43_nnRLFt6lRbwbQhL6oW8JXTp-9Ja-c9AuXlrbfgUpVqjn1KJoTeF3zQ/s1920/2365.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU3ojhMOM1qxBJlxKAQ2gDK8DHS0cce-Uq9D3EYh_H10ahjOZtHt_Nz9MjUZJ8VPrgtcfrBpWeksoD6DL6r43_nnRLFt6lRbwbQhL6oW8JXTp-9Ja-c9AuXlrbfgUpVqjn1KJoTeF3zQ/s320/2365.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">A study in California has laid bare the staggering scale of pollution from plastic microfibers in synthetic clothing – one of the most widespread, yet largely invisible, forms of plastic waste. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The </span><span style="font-family: arial;">report, whose findings were revealed exclusively by the Guardian, found that in 2019 an estimated 4,000 metric tons – or 13.3 quadrillion fibers – were released into California’s natural environment. The plastic fibers, which are less than 5mm in length, are primarily shed when we wash our yoga pants, stretchy jeans and fleece jackets and can easily enter oceans and waterways. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">“The findings were nothing short of shocking,” said Alexis Jackson, fisheries project director at the Nature Conservancy in California, which commissioned the study from a research team at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The study, which the authors describe as the first of its kind, has not yet been peer-reviewed or published.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/16/plastic-waste-microfibers-california-study?fbclid=IwAR3tgwIjmwDXG5VKA7C1QMMsVAqkrm1LxTfj1Oo3uv-tOItaqW_3Gx9uLIQ">Read more in "The Guardian"</a></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>6. </b></span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Burger King testing reusable food packaging in zero-waste effort</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6NhXE6XG-KKn9vknVz2kDgk4vzDqHSm4kkaQL8Ah5IOHftVJ0vufMgnG2oIgt9-46UKJwepsxre8nhfULPWqA2MjiTUdpZ1qGPYJkMNmyyibhOX5jFEIkdw0XXz6gnfGg0vKguQAnY4g/s640/burgerking_082514getty.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6NhXE6XG-KKn9vknVz2kDgk4vzDqHSm4kkaQL8Ah5IOHftVJ0vufMgnG2oIgt9-46UKJwepsxre8nhfULPWqA2MjiTUdpZ1qGPYJkMNmyyibhOX5jFEIkdw0XXz6gnfGg0vKguQAnY4g/s320/burgerking_082514getty.webp" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Burger King plans to test reusable food containers beginning in 2021 as part of its efforts to </span><span style="font-family: arial;">reduce waste. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The trial will partner with TerraCycle's zero-waste delivery platform Loop, a program that allows consumers an alternative to recycling that still diminishes overall waste and environmental impact, according to an official press release. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Customers at Burger King will be able to choose reusable packaging for menu items including food, soft drinks coffee. Those who choose the reusable option can return the containers to Burger King restaurants to be cleaned.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522274-burger-king-testing-reusable-food-packaging-in-zero-waste-effort">Read more in "The Hill"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>7. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Sponges as potential biomonitors of micropollution</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj91J_RVmUWMQgay4FxEGyjVBfhxeRBoY1LFYDuK9rKzcU5sphGgHviPYMkiQbqdv72uLaFChJ1NupwKciDNjcMebZm16qHG_P7s79sYFRbYUNgpf9kKnLq61s1G72WTU3y5F13n2oDmMA/s535/spongesasbio.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj91J_RVmUWMQgay4FxEGyjVBfhxeRBoY1LFYDuK9rKzcU5sphGgHviPYMkiQbqdv72uLaFChJ1NupwKciDNjcMebZm16qHG_P7s79sYFRbYUNgpf9kKnLq61s1G72WTU3y5F13n2oDmMA/s320/spongesasbio.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Sponges are sometimes referred to as the ocean's vacuum cleaners. They feed on tiny particles suspended in the currents, by filtering them from the seawater that passes through their highly porous tissues—which are supported by mineralized skeletons in many species. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter—but they can also ingest microscopic </span><span style="font-family: arial;">fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as useful bioindicators of the health of marine ecosystems.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Researchers found that </span><span style="font-family: arial;">particle-bearing sponges have a strong potential to biomonitor microparticulate pollutants, such as microplastics and other degraded industrial products. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-10-sponges-biomonitors-micropollution.html" style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749120365404?via%3Dihub" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read original study</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><b>8. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">NOAA report reveals condition of world's largest marine conservation area</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib6MX_V_3n7stVa2id3FrcvplcAVxy5xoQYAwGgFK72aiNvir2qm8k5XI2Zjs6KRqZU50rgko49MxjKwXppyKPsi9To_auGZWNK1DUGwNmwxLS-mQ9ysMUSdB5n_9dfwg-Pr39fG0B4zI/s800/noaareportre.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib6MX_V_3n7stVa2id3FrcvplcAVxy5xoQYAwGgFK72aiNvir2qm8k5XI2Zjs6KRqZU50rgko49MxjKwXppyKPsi9To_auGZWNK1DUGwNmwxLS-mQ9ysMUSdB5n_9dfwg-Pr39fG0B4zI/s320/noaareportre.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Located northwest of the main Hawaiian islands, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is virtually unpopulated. Because of its isolation, scale, and high degree of protection, the monument provides an unrivaled example of reef ecosystems still dominated by top predators such as sharks. This is not seen in most other island environments due to human activity. Some marine habitat has been impacted by derelict fishing gear, large storms, aggressive nuisance algae, and coral bleaching. Most marine areas of the monument have not been significantly affected and are in relatively good to fair condition. The report states that terrestrial habitats have been affected by past human activities that altered soils and vegetation, introduced alien species, and left behind contamination on many of the islands. Without active management efforts to restore habitat, remove invasive species, abate contaminants and enhance the resilience of endangered species, resources would be in significantly poorer condition.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-10-noaa-reveals-condition-natural-cultural.html">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>9. Sand mining and development approved in Bali conservation area </b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHY0-bZ8A77pQtxy99ZNnmlJbfno5JekaUGPTXm7mKjNtBcwNlNSWDOpwKT4eKR1zuai2rNyDTjVcTdYJJ3niPJyzXoKmbgGmBGvq4DVd8rP5YK1lbedUkHjUfGIbPD71A3HcPrwrdBo/s1508/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+1.13.51+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHY0-bZ8A77pQtxy99ZNnmlJbfno5JekaUGPTXm7mKjNtBcwNlNSWDOpwKT4eKR1zuai2rNyDTjVcTdYJJ3niPJyzXoKmbgGmBGvq4DVd8rP5YK1lbedUkHjUfGIbPD71A3HcPrwrdBo/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+1.13.51+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>A year ago, Bali’s environmentalist community was cautiously celebrating the cancellation of a massive land reclamation project planned for Benoa Bay. The permit for the 30 trillion rupiah ($2 billion) development plan to build 12 artificial islands — complete with a golf course, theme park, and even a Formula One race course — expired before the project could obtain government approval. On Oct. 10, 2019, the Bali governor designated Benoa Bay a conservation area for religious and cultural activities and artisanal fisheries, protected from reclamation of any kind. For a brief moment after five years of relentless protests, it appeared that Benoa Bay would remain untouched. </span>Barely 11 months later, the Balinese legislature gathered discreetly during the COVID-19 pandemic and approved a zoning plan for the area that would permit sand mining and an expansion of the harbor and airport.</div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-bali-the-pandemic-unravels-a-hard-won-campaign-to-save-benoa-bay/?fbclid=IwAR0KnrX6gxlhMzjUz88PGC5wnwSLxJAA7mcu_gSv5QjMG6m-Z3yG6w7PKIM">Read more in "Monga Bay"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>10. </b></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Cleaning volunteers asked to record plastic PPE found on UK beaches</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0Lx1HWU_i6JaxyjDJZ3l70vYBC0qRMHXRP_BUdApfIbeJb-152JD-FyWqec8eLIOZcIkULAWKO7AHnI_uqAM6ZOjtqnjYNZLu_LaAkQCn_IWd87Ob_lpuUvzzvcfgOhEzT60NdvJJWE/s1240/6720.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0Lx1HWU_i6JaxyjDJZ3l70vYBC0qRMHXRP_BUdApfIbeJb-152JD-FyWqec8eLIOZcIkULAWKO7AHnI_uqAM6ZOjtqnjYNZLu_LaAkQCn_IWd87Ob_lpuUvzzvcfgOhEzT60NdvJJWE/s320/6720.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Volunteers in this year’s Great British Beach Clean are being asked to record the personal protective equipment (PPE) they find, to get a clearer picture of the volume of plastic masks and gloves discarded during the coronavirus pandemic and their impact on the environment. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), which organizes the annual September event, is urging people to organize their own surveys with smaller groups of friends, family, and “bubbles”, in line with government guidance.</div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/18/cleaning-volunteers-asked-to-record-plastic-ppe-found-on-uk-beaches?fbclid=IwAR1VxgWhDQgLZum2XicIvNR8s7DKxVa2Sva9WnECUw-LRG4P4bMNZJRNGxM">Read more in "The Guardian"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> ----------------------------------------------- </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></p>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-76709628747956088902020-10-05T11:53:00.006-07:002020-10-05T12:16:23.423-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" Oct 5, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p><b style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">COVID vaccines could decimate shark populations</b>, Nations commit to reverse nature loss, </b><b style="font-family: times;"> Attenborough calls for global $500 billion a year investment in nature</b><b style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"> </b><b style="font-family: times;">and more.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>1. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">Could COVID protection trigger shark eradication?</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OLrlwCd7sinZXEntO9XQs6ajxSMmQH_aMTF4dDnKxjsQ2hV3HUGsdRg-CmSuVuBlSAjyw9cs1fwXCUuI53FA3pKOHHt2cnGBM2HUdVGCqs8KVGEFzTLhyDrGm3mzLbgEkFle9qFuSK8/s800/cotton_shark2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OLrlwCd7sinZXEntO9XQs6ajxSMmQH_aMTF4dDnKxjsQ2hV3HUGsdRg-CmSuVuBlSAjyw9cs1fwXCUuI53FA3pKOHHt2cnGBM2HUdVGCqs8KVGEFzTLhyDrGm3mzLbgEkFle9qFuSK8/w320-h212/cotton_shark2.jpg" title="(c) Amanda Cotton" width="320" /></a></div><div>The race to develop a safe and effective COVID Vaccine to save human lives is an international priority. However, we do not need to create a new crisis as we address another. Plant-derived squalane has been proven to be just as effective as shark-derived squalene in vaccine studies and in the skincare industry. COVID vaccines will be needed by virtually everyone. With the pandemic, climate change, and economic disruption, this is no time to create a new ecological crisis.</div></span></div><p></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://its-your-ocean-news.seasave.org/2020/10/could-covid-protection-trigger-shark.html">Read more in "Sea Save Foundation"</a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>2. </b></span><b style="font-family: times;">World leaders pledge to halt Earth’s destruction ahead of UN summit</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lG1-k78lekxVeI3zFe2XM2LG_aMY0KwPQo0rky4-HYYImiMY_Yi4wCZ2sI3YlJZAfllCDjMsZ7OiX2fS96O3wgIFd5p7WZpRpx8uZ9UGTYks8hhief1_pVDnvE6K3sl1oNhwkHORdHM/s1528/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.11.11+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lG1-k78lekxVeI3zFe2XM2LG_aMY0KwPQo0rky4-HYYImiMY_Yi4wCZ2sI3YlJZAfllCDjMsZ7OiX2fS96O3wgIFd5p7WZpRpx8uZ9UGTYks8hhief1_pVDnvE6K3sl1oNhwkHORdHM/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.11.11+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>There are 64 leaders from five continents warning that humanity is in a state of planetary emergency due to the climate crisis and the rampant destruction of life-sustaining ecosystems. To restore the balance with nature, governments and the European Union have made a 10-point pledge to counteract the damage.</div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://livingplanet.panda.org/" style="font-family: arial;">Read the Living Planet Report 2020</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>3. </b></span><span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>France bans wild animals in circuses, marine parks</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_O5ammd6zHRXvBi-tjsbaRErmLXAg9eqKWwRvblWjnRUPMFtISXVOzq9GS2D9JEOBoZw9FX4WidWr3vMC7629IScqALOpYzEArWsCouIbfOFjeF9pt-HDBN4lXAQiTXGTL875qWl0qSc/s1270/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.12.50+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_O5ammd6zHRXvBi-tjsbaRErmLXAg9eqKWwRvblWjnRUPMFtISXVOzq9GS2D9JEOBoZw9FX4WidWr3vMC7629IScqALOpYzEArWsCouIbfOFjeF9pt-HDBN4lXAQiTXGTL875qWl0qSc/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.12.50+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">France will phase out the use of animals in traveling circuses and orcas and dolphins in marine </span><span style="font-family: arial;">parks, the country’s environment minister announced Tuesday. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili said during a news conference that a ban on animals like tigers, lions, and elephants in circuses will take effect in “coming years,” according to The Associated Press. A separate ban on breeding or bringing in dolphins or killer whales to France’s three marine parks will take effect immediately. The government will begin implementing the circus regulation “as soon as possible,” she said.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/518701-france-announces-ban-on-use-of-wild-animals-in-circuses-marine">Read more in "The Hill"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>4. </b></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">David Attenborough calls for global $500 billion a year investment in nature</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGYWgrKqVEKQ9Lnzeky2nnUV71gjLv7qOP16GtrAnWv_Yr4OTYp07ZWio2MAWpEq_JSTWd3_rsqMGYNtWyS5oyu8R6S7p6Sr6O9T_rhzi2xyWsiFf31WLASFW24_4m6rmrEpXPWwzbFzk/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.16.44+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGYWgrKqVEKQ9Lnzeky2nnUV71gjLv7qOP16GtrAnWv_Yr4OTYp07ZWio2MAWpEq_JSTWd3_rsqMGYNtWyS5oyu8R6S7p6Sr6O9T_rhzi2xyWsiFf31WLASFW24_4m6rmrEpXPWwzbFzk/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.16.44+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>British ecologist and nature documentary host David Attenborough called for a $500 billion per year global investment in nature on Wednesday. The call came during a one-day summit held by the United Nations convened to discuss the protection of wildlife on the planet. The world spends a collective $80 billion to $90 billion on wildlife and nature conservation each year. However, according to Reuters, studies show that much more money is needed to keep ecosystems from collapsing. Attenborough joined conservation groups Wednesday cautioning that the planet's future is in "grave jeopardy," according to the wire service. "Our natural world is under greater pressure now than at any time in human history, and the future of the entire planet – on which every single one of us depends – is in grave jeopardy," Attenborough said in a statement.</div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/un-biodiversity-attenborough/david-attenborough-leads-call-for-world-to-invest-500-billion-a-year-to-protect-nature-idINKBN26L0G8">Read more in "Reuters"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>5. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Greenland is on track to lose ice faster than in any century over the last 12,000 years, study finds</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0OuqOos2OKAO8go8HaFp78lWAV1kOlKHdu2SjnoY7gT1sh7yu51xXQISl7Juaj0FIamOISHBg-OTyiU4AfBXSAYNYAo-Wfcue-k7HuW1Xu70NGAqmPkkzxdZLe-nTYLpxDtf4z5KrmTA/s1580/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.47.11+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1580" data-original-width="1528" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0OuqOos2OKAO8go8HaFp78lWAV1kOlKHdu2SjnoY7gT1sh7yu51xXQISl7Juaj0FIamOISHBg-OTyiU4AfBXSAYNYAo-Wfcue-k7HuW1Xu70NGAqmPkkzxdZLe-nTYLpxDtf4z5KrmTA/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.47.11+PM.png" /></a></div>If human societies don’t sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland’s rate of ice loss this century is likely to greatly outpace that of any century over the past 12,000 years, a new study concludes. “Basically, we’ve altered our planet so much that the rates of ice sheet melt this century are on pace to be greater than anything we’ve seen under natural variability of the ice sheet over the past 12,000 years. We’ll blow that out of the water if we don’t make severe reductions to greenhouse gas emissions,” says Jason Briner, PhD, professor of geology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences. Briner led the collaborative study, coordinating the work of scientists from multiple disciplines and institutions.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2020/09/044.html">Read more in "University at Buffalo"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>6. </b></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Trump official stalls polar bear study that could affect oil drilling in Alaska</b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntzJgNZyDlhQaXbaON-OxQr2tt2Wbi1F8832OxD_huewcOlLZHqdmF-vGbHLkJfrkCWnuyz1jM1oUNYgUD6byjgX_F9bHLpGRJWn1V_pphVDgb_bl0l4EHGY7hvALgp7j3nCgsrSFUkk/s1118/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.21.55+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntzJgNZyDlhQaXbaON-OxQr2tt2Wbi1F8832OxD_huewcOlLZHqdmF-vGbHLkJfrkCWnuyz1jM1oUNYgUD6byjgX_F9bHLpGRJWn1V_pphVDgb_bl0l4EHGY7hvALgp7j3nCgsrSFUkk/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+3.21.55+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">A top official at the Interior Department has slowed the release of a study on the number of polar </span><span style="font-family: arial;">bears that give birth on land overlapping an area recently opened to oil and gas drilling, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The study has been ready for at least three months, but has been held up by U.S. Geological Survey Director James Reilly, The Post reported, noting that Reilly has raised questions about it, including why it uses data from a former scientist and why polar bear dens aren’t counted individually. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The study reportedly looks at the number of bears that give birth in an area near the southern Beaufort Sea, which is part of an area the administration has moved toward opening up for oil and gas drilling.</span></div></div></span><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/519034-trump-administration-official-delays-polar-bear-study-with">Read more in "The Hill"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>7. </b></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Sentinels of ocean acidification impacts survived Earth’s last mass extinction</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkbQEHFPt1WbaWTxXG5qFb0BNyAGx6FNpj-KuYs5rr6Ya5E_VvnladnT1bfP_ECzrbLEXpXExtspbo3xkTbVhCmbzh8Yz-6UxggKyx_49x8GPNn5WHOlDs3gZ49OQbxz8RpqqZywwvU8/s978/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.43.39+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkbQEHFPt1WbaWTxXG5qFb0BNyAGx6FNpj-KuYs5rr6Ya5E_VvnladnT1bfP_ECzrbLEXpXExtspbo3xkTbVhCmbzh8Yz-6UxggKyx_49x8GPNn5WHOlDs3gZ49OQbxz8RpqqZywwvU8/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.43.39+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms, sea butterflies and sea angels, were found to be surprisingly resilient—having survived dramatic global climate change and Earth’s most recent mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences co-authored by Erica Goetze, oceanographer in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. Sea butterflies have been a focus for global change research because they make their shells of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate that is 50 percent more soluble than calcite, which other important open ocean organisms use to construct their shells. As their shells are susceptible to dissolving in more acidified ocean water, pteropods have been called “canaries in the coal mine,” or sentinel species that signal the impact of ocean acidification.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/announce/news/sentinels-of-ocean-acidification-impacts-survived-earths-last-mass-extinction/">Read more in "University of Hawai‘i at Manoa"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>8. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>New marine protected areas connect hundreds of kilometers of Turkey's Mediterranean coast</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9F-I_Bew7nMnTi8gq8e8gFLUJUMea4LzyHJ9GOaKlXPq4lWO1K-lQRR_SNy-XgFkgCAynt4ma4pSlC7BLoDj2wKZ24u2vBmFdSu0MA2M9FHiyHnmqSM6vrZkLiPX0m6eRFjaFRzp-EQg/s1474/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.54.49+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9F-I_Bew7nMnTi8gq8e8gFLUJUMea4LzyHJ9GOaKlXPq4lWO1K-lQRR_SNy-XgFkgCAynt4ma4pSlC7BLoDj2wKZ24u2vBmFdSu0MA2M9FHiyHnmqSM6vrZkLiPX0m6eRFjaFRzp-EQg/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.54.49+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Three hundred and fifty square kilometers of Turkey's coastline has been brought under environmental protection in a recent announcement by the Turkish government. This new area represents a significant expansion of the existing marine protected area network along the country's Mediterranean coast and firmly establishes Turkey as a leader in marine conservation in the most overfished sea on the planet. The announcement comes amid a growing global push to expand ocean protection through coalitions such as the UK's 30by30 alliance, which calls for the protection of 30% of the global oceans by 2030.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-09-marine-areas-hundreds-kilometres-turkey.html">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>9. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Coral's resilience to warming may depend on iron</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6q3cPJiHWUMk7c2BS-Y0SHs6qB4yOgf5U_kuyLUNsvDPv6ofKBUAeo6m-xYNOujLvDMotgsp-3qvF-flLiXQVb_2kJtewzjxrlk8u-ZsLpVv4eMx14raxymM9TOqAGEbs61G-lIS4Ibk/s1446/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.56.17+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6q3cPJiHWUMk7c2BS-Y0SHs6qB4yOgf5U_kuyLUNsvDPv6ofKBUAeo6m-xYNOujLvDMotgsp-3qvF-flLiXQVb_2kJtewzjxrlk8u-ZsLpVv4eMx14raxymM9TOqAGEbs61G-lIS4Ibk/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-01+at+2.56.17+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>How well corals respond to climate change could depend in part on the already scarce amount of iron available in their environment, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The study reveals that the combination of hot water temperatures and low iron levels compromises the algae that live within coral cells, suggesting that limited iron levels—which could decline with warming ocean waters—could exacerbate the effects of climate change on corals.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.psu.edu/story/633134/2020/09/30/research/coral%E2%80%99s-resilience-warming-may-depend-iron">Read more in "Penn Stat News"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> ----------------------------------------------- </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></p>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-7200143677958938422020-10-05T11:49:00.009-07:002020-10-12T11:40:12.747-07:00Could COVID Protection Trigger Shark Eradication<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidm5mFKdVZRdfH_KUgLxOp7o7CDVfqavwtYzmLEFZbhfhhENbhPIO22cDBCfJhZlZXMhIwsbaQJhRiNQkAoSYd1-Ygnv7WYBT4dsrZCQDiI6KR4hj78QAEQBH8v7w_vqEYVXNHbOxPVPM/s800/cotton_shark2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidm5mFKdVZRdfH_KUgLxOp7o7CDVfqavwtYzmLEFZbhfhhENbhPIO22cDBCfJhZlZXMhIwsbaQJhRiNQkAoSYd1-Ygnv7WYBT4dsrZCQDiI6KR4hj78QAEQBH8v7w_vqEYVXNHbOxPVPM/s320/cotton_shark2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>As the world battles with the devastating human and economic losses due to the Novel Coronavirus 19, sharks and oceans are in danger of being severely impacted as collateral damage.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Squalene, which is found in high concentrations in shark livers is one of the component parts of leading vaccines in trials.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Squalene and its hydrogenated derivative squalane are used in conjunction with “adjuvants” or ingredients used to create a stronger immune response, thus augmenting the strength of the vaccine. Squalene and squalane can be harvested from many other sources, however, sharks are favored by pharmaceutical companies due to its high level of purity and inexpensive pricing. If successful vaccine trials emerge that require squalene and squalene there are environmentally-friendly sources that should be used. Olives, soybeans, and sunflowers are a few viable and proven sources of this ingredient. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjfRzSSlXiR29QeTh7q9CfBFQNzDNM9G_Lnp7JtpdczGncLpq2sdSxLbWgTCL9L86l7UHzwyI_F7W4vnjUxp5ZjRO0Hxjh7hDeN1_t6WvuHmQT2mY0-3p8EXvStJ06pWnb7bQIobPa3E/s1024/Difference-between-Squalene-and-Squalane-chemical-structures-1-1024x535.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjfRzSSlXiR29QeTh7q9CfBFQNzDNM9G_Lnp7JtpdczGncLpq2sdSxLbWgTCL9L86l7UHzwyI_F7W4vnjUxp5ZjRO0Hxjh7hDeN1_t6WvuHmQT2mY0-3p8EXvStJ06pWnb7bQIobPa3E/s320/Difference-between-Squalene-and-Squalane-chemical-structures-1-1024x535.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Squalane can also be synthesized using one of two pathways. The first method is via petrochemical origin and this holds its own environmental challenges. The second synthetic recipe is new, involves the genetic manipulations of microorganisms, and has not been well tested, thus rendering it a poor option.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The world awaits a vetted vaccine that will allow us to return to our lives, protected from this deadly virus. When we find this solution, we must move forward swiftly but not at the expense of shark populations and overall ocean conservation.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The time is now to look ahead and communicate that any vaccine must be both safe for public consumption and environmentally viable.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>By: Georgienne Bradley MA<br />and Lawrence Stock MD</b></div></span></div>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-54240844581140729952020-09-25T08:00:00.002-07:002020-09-25T08:03:11.162-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" September 25, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Florida SB 680 - Shark fin ban is signed into law, 4</b></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>0% of Hawaii beaches could soon be lost, China pledges to be carbon neutral by 2060, H</b></span></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;">ow we can eradicate plastic pollution by 2040, </b><b style="font-family: times;">and more...</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>1. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Florida SB 680 - Shark fin ban is signed into law</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK4AyEZSCjzcTfLE_IGLfcp4CexB8bJWTPQUqqlD5t3mWvE3J4V5PgCLuajQhWIp_WOpY_m8Dq3q4MFGjZb4uO6sYg9f-oKvA7LTfeOr45pvCSSR_S-vBUzZ1-F6jzzzMF7cMn4i2r28Q/s1170/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.16.37+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK4AyEZSCjzcTfLE_IGLfcp4CexB8bJWTPQUqqlD5t3mWvE3J4V5PgCLuajQhWIp_WOpY_m8Dq3q4MFGjZb4uO6sYg9f-oKvA7LTfeOr45pvCSSR_S-vBUzZ1-F6jzzzMF7cMn4i2r28Q/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.16.37+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Florida SB 680, a Shark Fin Ban Bill, was signed by the governor and is now law in the Sunshine State This is a game-changer because Florida had become the shark fin trade hub of the United States. Kristin Jacobs introduced SB 680 to the Florida House of Representatives on October 28th, 2019. SB 680 is a great victory, but it came with a cost. The bill was diluted due to the successful efforts of a strong fishing lobby. We had the option to abandon the bill but strategically decided to take this opportunity to begin strengthening shark conservation in Florida. But we will not rest until the senseless and unsustainable shark fin practice has been stopped completely. </div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://its-your-ocean-news.seasave.org/2020/09/florida-sb-680-shark-fin-ban-is-signed.html" target="_blank">Read more on the Sea Save Foundation Blog</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>2. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>China pledges to become carbon neutral by 2060<br /></b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkaqJTfhkvc8V8t94HR8PEs0tf2DwcSi3bYFBf8v9GkVo0W7AVVup-99Fy05TKKC4w0rKhxvl8qctidlADQ_IcSNmyWm18yb-NsaUzWpdvPQvH37M1fWuI4K_mXQWvDQWL1fUa4sR6TU/s2048/china.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkaqJTfhkvc8V8t94HR8PEs0tf2DwcSi3bYFBf8v9GkVo0W7AVVup-99Fy05TKKC4w0rKhxvl8qctidlADQ_IcSNmyWm18yb-NsaUzWpdvPQvH37M1fWuI4K_mXQWvDQWL1fUa4sR6TU/s320/china.jpg" width="320" /></a>China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced Tuesday it would seek to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. It’s a notable pledge from a nation frequently targeted by Republicans, who argue the U.S. should not move ahead on more ambitious climate action without stronger commitments from other major emitters. In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Xi Jinping said China would scale up its commitments under the 2015 Paris Climate Accord.</div></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/517636-china-pledges-to-become-carbon-neutral-by-2060">Read more in "The Hill"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>3. </b></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">40% of O'ahu, Hawai'i beaches could be lost by mid-century</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHamr9UFcDPsdgEbdHMwl3nEl9ZyQBBbSVk3PAt595W3suY165K_PIjZIj3L7B1v67SR9f94jmnwD-qY8xwvlb9HPQA26iAQring-QJJUwnIE93OnzRoy_ptvLQj5C1wGewhLsAZQDVrU/s2048/pexels-oliver-sjA%25CC%2583%25C2%25B6strA%25CC%2583%25C2%25B6m-1650730.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Times; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHamr9UFcDPsdgEbdHMwl3nEl9ZyQBBbSVk3PAt595W3suY165K_PIjZIj3L7B1v67SR9f94jmnwD-qY8xwvlb9HPQA26iAQring-QJJUwnIE93OnzRoy_ptvLQj5C1wGewhLsAZQDVrU/s320/pexels-oliver-sjA%25CC%2583%25C2%25B6strA%25CC%2583%25C2%25B6m-1650730.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">The reactive and piecemeal approach historically used to manage beaches in Hawai'i has failed </span><span style="font-family: arial;">to protect them. If policies are not changed, as much as 40% of all beaches on O'ahu, Hawai'i could be lost before mid-century, according to a new study by researchers in the Coastal Geology Group at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). </span><span style="font-family: arial;">In an era of rising sea level, beaches need to migrat</span>e landward, otherwise, they drown. Beach migration, also known as shoreline retreat, causes coastal erosion of private and public beachfront property. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/announce/news/40-of-o%ca%bbahu-beaches-could-be-lost-by-mid-century/">Read more in "University of Hawai‘i at Manoa"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>4. Pilot whales Tasmania: Almost 400 die in Australia's worst stranding</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiS4e4FuHgs1dupR152uVBJVhiJraSB7lO_v0B3B3g_hTDncgoJ67vJ0LzqeVgECmnRgoX3WHYaiJDOIAO9EYWNLtWDXERN8-Yn_KU-kS0vahGs4up3e-12-3tstcbQ8r1L3ZO6Qp6ag/s1558/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+1.44.39+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiS4e4FuHgs1dupR152uVBJVhiJraSB7lO_v0B3B3g_hTDncgoJ67vJ0LzqeVgECmnRgoX3WHYaiJDOIAO9EYWNLtWDXERN8-Yn_KU-kS0vahGs4up3e-12-3tstcbQ8r1L3ZO6Qp6ag/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+1.44.39+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">About 380 whales have died in what is suspected to be Australia's largest stranding on record, officials say. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Since Monday, hundreds of long-finned pilot whales have been found beached on </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Tasmania's west coast. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Rescuers had managed to save 50 by late on Wednesday, and they were trying to help the remaining estimated 30 whales. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Tasmanian government officials said the rescue effort would continue "as long as there are live animals". </span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54260278?fbclid=IwAR0uT0V_z6IxnFkux15e2BnrK3gZHMbpoGhiAxOoZqD7KBAnuKTj4NmUYgA">Read more in "BBC"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>5. 2020 Arctic sea ice minimum at second-lowest on record</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AWsBKg23KpRe0REMKa0kGBHovO42iy0NsY2CWTOKqAYJrPp2S1B6wz3a-EoaZZ6Tuyck7nQPYA-15befWisJTDPjegPD3QoY2p2ZC3KXZ6iTOYg_tVg4-QOMjc0XwKB_7lHY-VyAX3Y/s632/Screen+Shot+2020-09-25+at+10.56.35+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AWsBKg23KpRe0REMKa0kGBHovO42iy0NsY2CWTOKqAYJrPp2S1B6wz3a-EoaZZ6Tuyck7nQPYA-15befWisJTDPjegPD3QoY2p2ZC3KXZ6iTOYg_tVg4-QOMjc0XwKB_7lHY-VyAX3Y/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-25+at+10.56.35+AM.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado - Boulder shows that the 2020 minimum extent, which was likely reached on Sept. 15, measured 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers). In winter, frozen seawater covers almost the entire Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas. This sea ice undergoes seasonal patterns of change -- thinning and shrinking during late spring and summer, and thickening and expanding during fall and winter. The extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic can impact local ecosystems, regional and global weather patterns, and ocean circulation. </span></div></span><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/2020-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-at-second-lowest-on-record">Read more in "NASA"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>6. "Science" - Analysis of plastic pollution eradication</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1b3OuhfJKrzgW9VZobB_NUUnan8lr3C_OyVlGnD9JMfw9HZmMMvVjaH3WidMZtJsIaw-TYHXeof_982ElksOC3wW4uEFlerW2YGwUw-QSMusWiyCYMp8EbzXQnCVXGgkhxj4eIzdC7h4/s1502/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.45.30+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1b3OuhfJKrzgW9VZobB_NUUnan8lr3C_OyVlGnD9JMfw9HZmMMvVjaH3WidMZtJsIaw-TYHXeof_982ElksOC3wW4uEFlerW2YGwUw-QSMusWiyCYMp8EbzXQnCVXGgkhxj4eIzdC7h4/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.45.30+PM.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A new analysis published in the journal "Science" shows that the business-as-usual approach to <span style="font-family: arial;">tackling ocean plastic pollution isn’t working. Even worse, should we continue down the current trajectory, the amount of plastic waste entering the ocean is set to triple by 2040? </span>But what’s unique about this study is that it focuses on the solutions that can stop this crisis in its tracks. Using all the technology that exists today, we can reduce ocean plastic flows by 80% – and with additional investment channeled into innovation, we can get closer to 100%. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/heres-how-we-can-eradicate-plastic-pollution-by-2040/">Read more in "World Economic Forum"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>7. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Ocean heat waves are directly linked to climate change</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Ap1GP2X5rR_CD32me1RtqQbsdUhrXshH81fzH4NNbun9i7wW4KT92EhJgxLJJm99K1G9-W0p8gty1JF3APzVNFFng7s8pSBaRB6OtXBgFUGemKKH1ZbZ12aQFOtkjFtFTSEhC5zaw_4/s1424/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.50.09+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Ap1GP2X5rR_CD32me1RtqQbsdUhrXshH81fzH4NNbun9i7wW4KT92EhJgxLJJm99K1G9-W0p8gty1JF3APzVNFFng7s8pSBaRB6OtXBgFUGemKKH1ZbZ12aQFOtkjFtFTSEhC5zaw_4/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.50.09+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Six years ago, a huge part of the Pacific Ocean near North America quickly warmed, reaching </span><span style="font-family: arial;">temperatures more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Nicknamed “the blob,” it persisted for two years, with devastating impacts on marine life, including sea lions and salmon. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The blob was a marine heatwave, the oceanic equivalent of a deadly summer atmospheric one. It was far from a solitary event: Tens of thousands have occurred in the past four decades, although most are far smaller and last for days rather than years. The largest and longest ones have occurred with increasing frequency over time.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/climate/ocean-heat-waves-blob.html?auth=login-facebook">Read more in "New York Times"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>8. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Rapid onsets of warming events trigger mass mortality of coral reef fish</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7tu5oavuXKa1eemN5V-Q_mmrAhanoomr0RMfNeRETS0uLWZZeXdCxjcrzgx2sDtOSD-MZhMBFsXS1F8jDD_cM0FAuGyRlXR9ciofmSvrwoCvBn3wZmf9wJRIa4EkhMCds03-sWOv57vc/s1468/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.56.07+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7tu5oavuXKa1eemN5V-Q_mmrAhanoomr0RMfNeRETS0uLWZZeXdCxjcrzgx2sDtOSD-MZhMBFsXS1F8jDD_cM0FAuGyRlXR9ciofmSvrwoCvBn3wZmf9wJRIa4EkhMCds03-sWOv57vc/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+2.56.07+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Israel and one in Greece has found</div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">evidence that suggests sudden ocean warming can lead to mass fish deaths. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of mass fish death events and what they learned about them. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">As Earth continues to grow warmer due to emissions of greenhouse gasses, scientists are trying to understand what it could mean for the future of the planet and its inhabitants. In this new effort, the researchers looked at the impact of abrupt ocean warming events on fish populations. These events are predicted to occur more often as the planet warms.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-09-abrupt-ocean-mass-fish-deaths.html">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> ----------------------------------------------- </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></p>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-67246810315698286472020-09-24T11:05:00.000-07:002020-09-24T11:05:39.018-07:00<h1 style="text-align: center;"> <br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Florida SB 680 - Shark Fin Ban is Signed into Law</span></span></h1><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Florida SB 680, a Shark Fin Ban Bill, was signed by the governor and is now law in the Sunshine State! This is a game-changer because Florida had become the shark fin trade hub of the United States. As other states outlawed fin possession, Florida became the "loophole state". On Friday, September 18th, 2020 a giant stride forward was made for shark protection within the United States and beyond.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMPf6BfBzS2-rBLgORNcAeBvsYWqQ3EPuCKgckO6h9oYioLYixcHyiChkc2cr-c1Ho_kkeOCssVr7pURxCH6YAEaZ6Uskc-B_z6uCg8P56u22CctkoSpZTCErmc8eBqgPg6OkZwLQjxBk/s2048/CongratulationsFloridaFinBan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMPf6BfBzS2-rBLgORNcAeBvsYWqQ3EPuCKgckO6h9oYioLYixcHyiChkc2cr-c1Ho_kkeOCssVr7pURxCH6YAEaZ6Uskc-B_z6uCg8P56u22CctkoSpZTCErmc8eBqgPg6OkZwLQjxBk/s320/CongratulationsFloridaFinBan.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sea Save Foundation has been enlisting your efforts since 2011 when we helped shepherd the California Shark bill, AB 376, through the legislative process and into law. This strong piece of legislation has served as a template for many other states whose elected officials followed with state shark conservation/no fin laws. Sea Save Foundation has raised awareness about the dangers of shark finning and created a pathway to engage the legislative process. Once conservationists are armed with factual information and have easy access to their elected decision-makers, it becomes possible to advocate and impact the outcome of how elected officials vote. If legislators support shark and ocean conservation bills, these bills become law. Our direct email tool was the platform used by thousands of concerned citizens to make their voices heard: "We must protect sharks and stop unsustainable finning." Our voices were heard and resulted in this law. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sea Save Foundation leaders have been working to stop shark fining since 1993 when our photos documenting finning at Cocos Island first appeared in newspapers across Costa Rica. Since then we have been working to stop shark finning internationally and within the United States. Our critical work at CITES and across the United States has made a huge impact, but we are not finished.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Kristin Jacobs introduced SB 680 to the Florida House of Representatives on October 28th, 2019. She was passionate about protecting sharks and also the long-term economy of her home state. She was the elected official who spearheaded this effort. Unfortunately, Representative Jacobs lost her battle with cancer on April 11, 2020, just a few months shy of this victory. In deference to her leadership, this bill was renamed the<strong> Kristin Jacobs Ocean Conservation Act.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">SB 680 is a great victory, but it came with a cost. The bill was diluted due to the successful efforts of a strong fishing lobby. We had the option to abandon the bill but strategically decided to take this opportunity to begin strengthening shark conservation in Florida. But we will not rest until the senseless and unsustainable shark fin practice has been stopped completely. </div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184460216617377282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-90146771594020215062020-09-17T12:52:00.003-07:002020-09-17T14:46:58.545-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" September 18, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>United Nations' Global Biodiversity Report: World fails to meet target to stop nature destruction, "Scientific American" breaks 175-year tradition to make political endorsement, Climate Change denier hired for key NOAA position and more...</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">1. United Nations' Global Biodiversity Report: </span></b><b style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">World fails to meet target to stop nature destruction</b></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2A9NW_1zCr-pnTCSWHfb4RV4atavn8KKeU0CFeyJQH0u99CocDAxfn-DF5AxQNRzuL8WJ0kPYkK_L7MellvzsxkZ1rSt3AkSHDTElejKjfCeYOz6JW3ebDpwiSsyByTr8fP-F7NwFd0/s1220/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.05.04+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2A9NW_1zCr-pnTCSWHfb4RV4atavn8KKeU0CFeyJQH0u99CocDAxfn-DF5AxQNRzuL8WJ0kPYkK_L7MellvzsxkZ1rSt3AkSHDTElejKjfCeYOz6JW3ebDpwiSsyByTr8fP-F7NwFd0/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.05.04+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>The world has failed to meet a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade, according to a devastating new report from the UN on the state of nature. From tackling pollution to protecting coral reefs, the international community did not fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010 to slow the loss of the natural world. It is the second consecutive decade that governments have failed to meet targets. The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, published before a key UN summit on the issue later this month, found that despite progress in some areas, natural habitats have continued to disappear, vast numbers of species remain threatened by extinction from human activities, and $500bn (£388bn) of environmentally damaging government subsidies have not been eliminated.</div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/15/every-global-target-to-stem-destruction-of-nature-by-2020-missed-un-report-aoe?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR0IxZVrY3ZVy4E9DcS51C-tIcuGHTkky5eP8lQmxcE-hLo1gWRXfpyMIy4#Echobox=1600177082">Read more in "The Guardian"</a></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">2. "</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Scientific American" endorses Joe Biden</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXfV8In31T3CDb7dKBBRMkQ2c2XyzFsY7ZTcWPilQQsmW8gETrXkqvgWfWVbvA7kvKA5QovGQ3VJQeYaCRok_qNMmKGol8cETg9mPYgTNqdh-ZDbv_TwTcidxCWe1RtKmzdUd-TvbNcNI/s1162/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.26.06+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXfV8In31T3CDb7dKBBRMkQ2c2XyzFsY7ZTcWPilQQsmW8gETrXkqvgWfWVbvA7kvKA5QovGQ3VJQeYaCRok_qNMmKGol8cETg9mPYgTNqdh-ZDbv_TwTcidxCWe1RtKmzdUd-TvbNcNI/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.26.06+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This </span><span style="font-family: arial;">year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and science. The most devastating example is his dishonest and inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which cost more than 190,000 Americans their lives by the middle of September. He has also attacked environmental protections, medical care, and the researchers and public science agencies that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges. That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These and other proposals he has put forth can set the country back on course for a safer, more prosperous, and more equitable future.</span></div></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/" target="_blank">Read more in "Scientific American"</a></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">3. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Longtime climate science denier hired At National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7k3ocpRFvgGjY-tF4p1sTq461dwU22Jw5GPfk6ITZi8T_TsJkES6j94mkVbN5J7K25MBkh5_xGiX4kgAVBcl_no5u4x1f_c-M94I2lIKsLJMYh-zngq3AmS1MZCTRLV88OfVsKbI4YS8/s1512/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.21.38+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7k3ocpRFvgGjY-tF4p1sTq461dwU22Jw5GPfk6ITZi8T_TsJkES6j94mkVbN5J7K25MBkh5_xGiX4kgAVBcl_no5u4x1f_c-M94I2lIKsLJMYh-zngq3AmS1MZCTRLV88OfVsKbI4YS8/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.21.38+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">David Legates, a University of Delaware professor of climatology who has spent much of his </span><span style="font-family: arial;">career questioning basic tenets of climate science, has been hired for a top position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Legates confirmed to NPR that he was recently hired as NOAA's deputy assistant secretary of commerce for observation and prediction. The position suggests that he reports directly to Neil Jacobs, the acting head of the agency that is in charge of the federal government's sprawling weather and climate prediction work. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Neither Legates nor NOAA representatives responded to questions about Legates' specific responsibilities or why he was hired. The White House also declined to comment.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/12/912301325/longtime-climate-science-denier-hired-at-noaa?fbclid=IwAR0_xvQNLHl4dKIbpZd6-xq1cxEoHK-4IvV9ZwqMohQwrks_-c8TrPN06cg" target="_blank">Read more in "NPR"</a></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">4. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Chinese fishing armada plundered waters around Galápagos, data shows</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qKeEtzVbVxGkejsBu4QLGFjvBUsq2xGRZSXQkxIMTTnW5Ucm9BbLHZ7aQcY75kEVkT6UkvF-LgIVXELESICNCA_jPOrdNa39Nlc6mKvcdfSe0Xrh9lbPniScoFqS4g3hyziWNgURB8M/s1216/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+9.56.29+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qKeEtzVbVxGkejsBu4QLGFjvBUsq2xGRZSXQkxIMTTnW5Ucm9BbLHZ7aQcY75kEVkT6UkvF-LgIVXELESICNCA_jPOrdNa39Nlc6mKvcdfSe0Xrh9lbPniScoFqS4g3hyziWNgURB8M/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+9.56.29+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>A vast fishing armada of Chinese vessels just off the Galápagos Islands logged an astounding 73,000 hours of fishing during just one month as it pulled up thousands of tonnes of squid and fish, a new report based on data analysis has found. The discovery of the giant flotilla off the archipelago that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution stirred controversy and outrage in Ecuador and abroad. Nearly 300 Chinese vessels accounted for 99% of visible fishing just outside the archipelago’s waters between 13 July and 13 August this year, according to an analysis by marine conservation group Oceana.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/17/chinese-fishing-armada-plundered-waters-around-galapagos-data-shows">Read more in "The Guardian"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">5. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Rare pink dolphins return to Hong Kong thanks to coronavirus lockdown</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdkA-SFWrQBmIJRglHZo1m5Pxip7wiFXkwsg3rkkJUCbc7OScnK6a8YRuts0ME614KPxMhblOT4EQj2jOTbhZUIn7n-3EIwlFwgSA5GPTaZ9WbgMj3HT3jXTFUw9GLZCgpf7S77pBpGA/s1070/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.19.35+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdkA-SFWrQBmIJRglHZo1m5Pxip7wiFXkwsg3rkkJUCbc7OScnK6a8YRuts0ME614KPxMhblOT4EQj2jOTbhZUIn7n-3EIwlFwgSA5GPTaZ9WbgMj3HT3jXTFUw9GLZCgpf7S77pBpGA/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.19.35+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>The lull brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led rare pink dolphins to return to the seas around Hong Kong. Sightings of the vulnerable Chinese white dolphin have risen by nearly a third - 30 percent – since boat and ferry traffic was suspended in the region in March. Scientists fear the species is in decline but say their research suggests the animals adapted more rapidly than expected to the quiet environment, offering a glimmer of hope for their populations. Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, also known as Chinese white dolphins or pink dolphins – reflecting their real color – have been hit hard by overfishing, water pollution, and numerous ferries and boats. </div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dolphins-white-pink-hong-kong-chinese-humpback-wwf-b446771.html?fbclid=IwAR2NTr8hgwNDvU2KsSnEsBO7IhwMm1JAwXAMtoMrFpDJIJ-6URiSRZCcmmU" target="_blank">Read more in "Independent"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">6. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Scientists baffled by orcas ramming sailing boats near Spain and Portugal</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfgWkdk7YHycG5NdgdppBCNbvCwOSOm3v5P3RqVbJticmH959Pr0F4E9iVPxaO9w8sdaa-IDYzMhgTIFaXT0Ax8ZLLz0AG7AGfQirJDSpVhPchE6ObtwCcjXV9gVHvjyy_5GqVdeAymk/s1228/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+9.49.40+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="1228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfgWkdk7YHycG5NdgdppBCNbvCwOSOm3v5P3RqVbJticmH959Pr0F4E9iVPxaO9w8sdaa-IDYzMhgTIFaXT0Ax8ZLLz0AG7AGfQirJDSpVhPchE6ObtwCcjXV9gVHvjyy_5GqVdeAymk/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+9.49.40+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Scientists have been left baffled by incidents of orcas ramming sailing boats along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">In the last two months, from southern to northern Spain, sailors have </span><span style="font-family: arial;">sent distress calls after worrying encounters. Two boats lost part of their rudders, at least one crew member suffered bruising from the impact of the ramming, and several boats sustained serious damage. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The latest incident occurred on Friday afternoon just off A Coruña, on the northern coast of Spain. Halcyon Yachts was taking a 36ft boat to the UK when an orca rammed its stern at least 15 times, according to Pete Green, the company’s managing director. The boat lost steering and was towed into port to assess the damage.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/13/killer-whales-launch-orchestrated-attacks-on-sailing-boats?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1" target="_blank">Read more in "The Guardian"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">7. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Artificial reefs take on a towering presence as havens for marine predators</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYnJNKuhtkOdR9PRCxyZaR8sVZ0UuE4acom5F7zcnuKNiR9OaFyG7S9HJca1mSsYV64hUw1PjRiCvpIDfxC-B7hdr_R7M8XAL4YokF-ez74cwaCKSvBfOwNuz9k1uQE_7vrE_rdaJYqc/s796/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+9.48.08+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="796" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYnJNKuhtkOdR9PRCxyZaR8sVZ0UuE4acom5F7zcnuKNiR9OaFyG7S9HJca1mSsYV64hUw1PjRiCvpIDfxC-B7hdr_R7M8XAL4YokF-ez74cwaCKSvBfOwNuz9k1uQE_7vrE_rdaJYqc/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+9.48.08+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Acting like high-rise timeshares in the sea, shipwrecks and other artificial reefs can support dense populations of sharks, mackerels, barracudas, jacks and other large migratory marine predators essential to ocean health, according to a new study at 30 sites along the North Carolina coast. Predator densities were up to five times larger at the 14 artificial reefs surveyed in the study than at the 16 nearby natural reefs that also were surveyed Shipwrecks, especially those that rose between 4 and 10 meters up into the water column, were by far the fishes’ favorite. At some sites, they supported predator densities up to 11 times larger than natural reefs or low-profile artificial reefs made of concrete. “These findings tell us two important things. One is that artificial reefs can support large predators, potentially supplementing natural reefs if the design and placement of the artificial reefs are strategic,” said Avery Paxton, research associate with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Beaufort, N.C., who led the study.</div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://nicholas.duke.edu/news/artificial-reefs-take-towering-presence-havens-marine-predators?fbclid=IwAR0_cAXCqp2VKbOpJOxM8c9AEbreEZM1uZIapi2WUGYOVEdTYT177_Hr254" target="_blank">Read more in "Duke University - Nicholas School of the Environment"</a></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">8. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Marine animals live where ocean is most ‘breathable,’ but ranges could shrink with climate change</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULNUu-N9Zsl8dDoYvf9Hs5Vwu32EemF6kC96PIS0sbvxZu2tSdZpD14fa-f8iyYRC4QeX_vD0Z6vAhSpSqbZdCe2Pe2eHODM9-Cep7Z1FQGFTTOmGTkex13Jl_RhWw7FjpMpzOZEo_oE/s1462/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.01.18+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULNUu-N9Zsl8dDoYvf9Hs5Vwu32EemF6kC96PIS0sbvxZu2tSdZpD14fa-f8iyYRC4QeX_vD0Z6vAhSpSqbZdCe2Pe2eHODM9-Cep7Z1FQGFTTOmGTkex13Jl_RhWw7FjpMpzOZEo_oE/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.01.18+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">As oceans warm due to climate change, scientists are trying to predict how marine animals — from backboned fish to spineless jellyfish — will react. Laboratory experiments indicate that </span><span style="font-family: arial;">many could theoretically tolerate temperatures far higher than what they encounter today. But these studies don’t mean that marine animals can maintain their current ranges in warmer oceans, according to Curtis Deutsch, a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">“Temperature alone does not explain where in the ocean an animal can live,” said Deutsch. “You must consider oxygen: how much is present in the water, how well an organism can take up and utilize it, and how temperature affects these processes.”</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/09/16/ocean-breathable-climate-change/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Read more in "University of Washington"</a></div><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">9. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBL0vzXiKGbK1VXUAi99h5937Rt37ueI1Q1yYw5TwxRcaKQH5V8rWvDr6lK-Wizrzo-0T7wBgI3xo0iF1Wp7x6EeAQX-zDsEnIE9fgklOjKgYs-Sfz_a8jFT8cIq6Qq475JAuFvRI_P68/s1772/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.15.02+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1772" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBL0vzXiKGbK1VXUAi99h5937Rt37ueI1Q1yYw5TwxRcaKQH5V8rWvDr6lK-Wizrzo-0T7wBgI3xo0iF1Wp7x6EeAQX-zDsEnIE9fgklOjKgYs-Sfz_a8jFT8cIq6Qq475JAuFvRI_P68/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.15.02+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Two Antarctic glaciers that have long kept scientists awake at night are breaking free from the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">restraints that have hemmed them in, increasing the threat of large-scale sea-level rise. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Located along the coast of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, the enormous Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers already contribute around 5 percent of global sea-level rise. The survival of Thwaites has been deemed so critical that the United States and Britain have launched a targeted multimillion-dollar research mission to the glacier. The loss of the glacier could trigger the broader collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough ice to eventually raise seas by about 10 feet.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/?fbclid=IwAR2jn9N2WIU0HbB2VsvJTnzVTR5BzN9wfuGUXel25Dj6io7NxZs8lLYbe7k" target="_blank">Read more in "Washington Post"</a></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">10. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Plastic pollution: Washed clothing's synthetic mountain of 'fluff'</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82ulOOZjkuQxBS0TwmsCjpWjOJrEt8BohlVHUQrPbjlFuTFjHry-9h6-P0vsp8tQ5oOJPiaf_reViUnhrXfboBBZ2WksyT1HG-IpBHHFCqTzUKEuaGeLDoI5sxxPhUxCmgotElD5XznY/s1280/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.37.26+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82ulOOZjkuQxBS0TwmsCjpWjOJrEt8BohlVHUQrPbjlFuTFjHry-9h6-P0vsp8tQ5oOJPiaf_reViUnhrXfboBBZ2WksyT1HG-IpBHHFCqTzUKEuaGeLDoI5sxxPhUxCmgotElD5XznY/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.37.26+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div>When you add it up, the total amount of synthetic microfibres going into the wider environment as we wash our clothes is an astonishing number. US scientists estimate it to be 5.6 million tonnes since we first started wearing those polyester and nylon garments in a big way in the 1950s. Just over half this mass - 2.9 million tonnes - has likely ended up in our rivers and seas. That's the equivalent of seven billion fleece jackets, the researchers say. But while we fret about water pollution, and rightly so, increasingly this synthetic "fluff" issue is one that affects the land. The University of California, Santa Barbara, team which did the calculations found that emission to the terrestrial environment has now overtaken that to water bodies - some 176,500 tonnes a year versus 167,000 tonnes.</div></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54182646" target="_blank">Read more in "BBC"</a></span></p><div><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">11. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Ocean acidification risks deep-sea reef collapse</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQcwQOHFXA8bez3sV7HtWDdXiYr6O507I3nOjkIk65qcwYRz6XvSEI2t-px6EsjoS5isjGqRHANjHw9p6QcAVxlSvKwWFCJFrSYI1yP4nIrNabn0NpLr9RRY1WURLFBuYy261FjQrJRo/s1484/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.39.24+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQcwQOHFXA8bez3sV7HtWDdXiYr6O507I3nOjkIk65qcwYRz6XvSEI2t-px6EsjoS5isjGqRHANjHw9p6QcAVxlSvKwWFCJFrSYI1yP4nIrNabn0NpLr9RRY1WURLFBuYy261FjQrJRo/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.39.24+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Deep-sea coral reefs face challenges as changes to ocean chemistry triggered by climate change may cause their foundations to become brittle, a study suggests. The underlying structures of the reefs—which are home to a multitude of aquatic life—could fracture as a result of increasing ocean acidity caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide. Hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean in Southern California, researchers measured the lowest—therefore the most acidic—pH level ever recorded on living coral reefs. The corals were then raised in the lab for one year under the same conditions. Scientists observed that the skeletons of dead corals, which support and hold up living corals, had become porous due to ocean acidification and rapidly become too fragile to bear the weight of the reef above them. Previous research has shown that ocean acidification can impact coral growth, but the new study demonstrates that porosity in corals—known as coralporosis—leads to weakening of their structure at critical locations.</div></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-09-ocean-acidification-deep-sea-reef-collapse.html" target="_blank">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p></div><div><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">12. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Emissions may add 40 cm to sea levels by 2100, experts warn</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVWgExkqK6UAQ27LUZ1wjtiI1cuM9f4vD1Qcew8p-jn_yFUzFbDp0bS4V7CPYCPL07xIKePT46F_ezvgf93PlGPYupeKoRElWonSn0kNHvoiTf1K3XySKBeuRB4AFcVGN_S6MbfDvbqo/s1488/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.42.25+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVWgExkqK6UAQ27LUZ1wjtiI1cuM9f4vD1Qcew8p-jn_yFUzFbDp0bS4V7CPYCPL07xIKePT46F_ezvgf93PlGPYupeKoRElWonSn0kNHvoiTf1K3XySKBeuRB4AFcVGN_S6MbfDvbqo/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.42.25+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Sustained greenhouse gas emissions could see global sea levels rise nearly 40 centimeters this century as ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland continue to melt, a major international study concluded Thursday. The gigantic ice caps contain enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 meters, and researchers are increasingly concerned that their melt rates are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea-level rise. Experts from more than three dozen research institutions used temperature and ocean salinity data to conduct multiple computer models simulating the potential ice loss in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers. They tracked two climate scenarios—one where mankind continues to pollute at current levels and another where carbon emissions are drastically reduced by 2100.</div></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-09-emissions-cm-sea-experts.html" target="_blank">Read more in "PHYS.org"</a></span></p></div><p><b><span style="font-family: times;">13. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Loss of sea otters accelerating the effects of climate change</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_eQKdXeqARX8LnI-jzwWTMpcBthGoLCuem16HzyY_H2_Q4BUc7XhBuRptCsZD_I0OujW-Ui2rI2DcbGwywlAyCHE980d8G8DNwhA6wJhtTu4OwxFt2eZacs0ef_eFiBL6EhjXZ_rgJUs/s738/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.07.37+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="738" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_eQKdXeqARX8LnI-jzwWTMpcBthGoLCuem16HzyY_H2_Q4BUc7XhBuRptCsZD_I0OujW-Ui2rI2DcbGwywlAyCHE980d8G8DNwhA6wJhtTu4OwxFt2eZacs0ef_eFiBL6EhjXZ_rgJUs/w319-h197/Screen+Shot+2020-09-17+at+10.07.37+AM.png" width="319" /></a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When otters became functionally extinct in the 1990s the sea urchin population exploded. Without their primary predator to keep them in check the echinoderms proliferated unabated. The coral-like reefs were built by red algae and are now being ground down by sea urchins. Climate change also contributes to the recovery of kelp forests and red algae. Combined these two issues are cause a transformation of Alaskan underwater topography.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><a href="https://www.bigelow.org/news/articles/2020-09-10.html" target="_blank">Read more in "Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences"</a></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> ----------------------------------------------- <br />Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></div>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-77730883271588499422020-09-10T10:26:00.047-07:002020-09-17T06:33:55.147-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" September 11, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>International shark trafficking ring dismantled, New Great Barrier Reef corals, M</b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><b>egalodon was much larger than previously believed and more:</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">1. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>International Crime Ring That Trafficked in Shark Fins Is Dismantled, U.S. Says</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKpCnD68N306rULGaASd1EgPOfwkXldARoK5DImIXExu26Y2PFz3RTpCeaf8_rndtAnqln9U8tRLdvTp2w2QSUgiiu-7EpKY3zLDIE8knK08At6hqISC8qG5WP48Y66z2TRfQtjI8SsQM/s1171/sharkFinSeized.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKpCnD68N306rULGaASd1EgPOfwkXldARoK5DImIXExu26Y2PFz3RTpCeaf8_rndtAnqln9U8tRLdvTp2w2QSUgiiu-7EpKY3zLDIE8knK08At6hqISC8qG5WP48Y66z2TRfQtjI8SsQM/s320/sharkFinSeized.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in some countries, has long fueled demand forillegally </span><span style="font-family: arial;">harvested fins. But federal authorities in Georgia announced this week that they had dismantled at least one source for the ingredient: a multimillion-dollar organization they described as an international money laundering, drug trafficking and illegal wildlife trade ring. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">A dozen people, including Terry Xing Zhao Wu, 45, of Burlingame, Calif., and two businesses on opposite ends of the country face multiple charges, including fraud and money laundering, for their roles in what the authorities called the “Wu transnational criminal organization,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia said in a statement on Thursday.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/shark-fin-ring-georgia.html">Read more in "New York Times"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">2. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>New corals discovered in deep-sea study of Great Barrier Reef Marine Park</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg57bugCMZI2VIdEfbeDUwwvja5vBc3V4wBX1sQrNZ7MxZLScqbS_6QuHcQ3-TqhyphenhyphendKVPla5Gnn2V7QC2isHkwoLJ2yyHaav5fMgh9YQ4RJZ_N7sKudfqWr9XIL1bll3VWhXUmryjS_qxg/s1138/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+12.39.05+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1138" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg57bugCMZI2VIdEfbeDUwwvja5vBc3V4wBX1sQrNZ7MxZLScqbS_6QuHcQ3-TqhyphenhyphendKVPla5Gnn2V7QC2isHkwoLJ2yyHaav5fMgh9YQ4RJZ_N7sKudfqWr9XIL1bll3VWhXUmryjS_qxg/w320-h204/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+12.39.05+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For the first time, scientists have viewed the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, discovered five undescribed species consisting of black corals and sponges, and recorded Australia’s first observation of an extremely rare fish. They also took critical habitat samples that will lead to a greater understanding of the spatial relationships between seabed features and the animals found in the Coral Sea. Using a remotely operated underwater robot to view high-resolution video of the bottom of the ocean floor, some 1,820 meters deep, the science team examined deep-sea bathymetry, wildlife, and ecosystems. The collaborative mission brought together scientists from Geoscience Australia, James Cook University, University of Sydney, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Queensland Museum Network, and Queensland University of Technology, to answer a range of questions about the geological evolution and biology of the deep-sea canyons and reefs.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://schmidtocean.org/australian-scientists-discover-new-corals/">Read more in "Schmidt Ocean Institute"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">3. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed</b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH8Jvcni2TQkRMYeqF3uwT9y1ezCRMStw1pSryofrufXI0Fq1GaWRzWaRNR8aFKtVG9Giq_tJwNyoLiSXlaT5_Tp4_xpCQhOZTMOYlA5T1t8dNhNS4mGFppdg-jRUAP91rtixw81LRvzE/s852/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+12.33.18+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="852" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH8Jvcni2TQkRMYeqF3uwT9y1ezCRMStw1pSryofrufXI0Fq1GaWRzWaRNR8aFKtVG9Giq_tJwNyoLiSXlaT5_Tp4_xpCQhOZTMOYlA5T1t8dNhNS4mGFppdg-jRUAP91rtixw81LRvzE/w320-h225/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+12.33.18+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">To date only the length of the legendary giant shark Megalodon had been estimated but now, a new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the rest of its body, including fins that are as large as an adult human. There is a grim fascination in determining the size of the largest sharks, but this can be difficult for fossil forms where teeth are often all that remain. Today, the most fearsome living shark is the Great White, at over six metres (20 feet) long, which bites with a force of two tonnes. Its fossil relative, the big tooth shark Megalodon, star of Hollywood movies, lived from 23 to around three million years ago, was over twice the length of a Great White and had a bite force of more than ten tonnes.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/september/megalodon.html" target="_blank">Read more in "University of Bristol"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">4. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Ocean warming has seafloor species headed in the wrong direction</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYpMTgEO-VJa3VDXbSCzcpNwRE_SX05uVqKyo4e_wRi3oCVDj7MunLrUynrKf-WmnTeewA5u5r3H8Hg4bDePKAnmpT_3h3Ikn5hd41ZYokbauLCUemXfSC0AErtBnniTom_6RNwcM3wc/s1484/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+1.33.34+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYpMTgEO-VJa3VDXbSCzcpNwRE_SX05uVqKyo4e_wRi3oCVDj7MunLrUynrKf-WmnTeewA5u5r3H8Hg4bDePKAnmpT_3h3Ikn5hd41ZYokbauLCUemXfSC0AErtBnniTom_6RNwcM3wc/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+1.33.34+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ocean warming is paradoxically driving bottom-dwelling invertebrates—including sea scallops, blue mussels, surf clams, and quahogs that are valuable to the shellfish industry—into warmer waters and threatening their survival, a Rutgers-led study shows. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers identify a cause for the "wrong-way" species migrations: warming-induced changes to their spawning times, resulting in the earlier release of larvae that are pushed into warmer waters by ocean currents. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The researchers studied six decades of data on 50 species of bottom-dwelling invertebrates and found that about 80 percent have disappeared from the Georges Bank and the outer shelf between the Delmarva Peninsula and Cape Cod, including off the coast of New Jersey.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.rutgers.edu/news/wrong-way-migrations-stop-shellfish-escaping-ocean-warming" target="_blank">Read more in "Rutgers University"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">5. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Blazing tanker sparks fears of a new Indian Ocean disaster</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFM7zAkNlgPywCs2mF5221GgS6UO_rFmFkDyCD1-B9qfcDxJ_Lpwue4ffZfUiZPfnIcSmiNXO-SpwZVjfp30s5PNgvN9aG0kyjgcoakhTH5HcjTfuxTI6xaH1GiAkWxaKmv2WqQJ7Ad_E/s1354/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+12.30.01+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1354" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFM7zAkNlgPywCs2mF5221GgS6UO_rFmFkDyCD1-B9qfcDxJ_Lpwue4ffZfUiZPfnIcSmiNXO-SpwZVjfp30s5PNgvN9aG0kyjgcoakhTH5HcjTfuxTI6xaH1GiAkWxaKmv2WqQJ7Ad_E/w320-h217/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+12.30.01+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Indian Ocean was on full alert again today as an oil supertanker caught fire off the coast of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Sri Lanka and began spilling oil late evening on 3 September. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">23 of the crew have been evacuated from the vessel with 1 still missing. The vessel, the MT New Diamond, is a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) and was reportedly carrying 2 million barrels of oil. This is double the amount of oil that is putting the entire Red Sea region at risk with a deteriorating, abandoned Yemeni tanker. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The MT New Diamond was flagged in Panama, and had been travelling from Kuwait to India when an explosion occurred and a fire broke out in the engine room of the vessel early on Thursday morning.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/09/03/new-oil-spill-fear-in-indian-ocean-with-sri-lanka-supertanker-fire/#93b6d7f235b0" target="_blank">Read more in "Forbes"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">6. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Recent data show Chinese fishing fleet still near Galapagos</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_4ZfeIkMD6C4o43id7HvGx4CgN8qEIemU6Dq8kDXNnvhiyJyBu4uyPtm6SkJntcTHvcN7uoF5PeJ7qOv8zE4xlGgFx_c8J0AfD9UEaVvjKnDelKTVs-6z9M9_OajyoPwnRWLZspCioY/s1122/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.22.24+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_4ZfeIkMD6C4o43id7HvGx4CgN8qEIemU6Dq8kDXNnvhiyJyBu4uyPtm6SkJntcTHvcN7uoF5PeJ7qOv8zE4xlGgFx_c8J0AfD9UEaVvjKnDelKTVs-6z9M9_OajyoPwnRWLZspCioY/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.22.24+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Satellite data indicate that a large Chinese fishing fleet remained in international waters near </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago at the beginning of this month, even as China said it would temporarily ban fishing near the UNESCO world heritage site. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Vessel tracking data displayed on the public map created by Global Fishing Watch, a group that tracks commercial fishing vessels, shows that the fleet was massed until at least Sept. 1 along the southern border of the exclusive economic zone around the Galapagos, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from the islands. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">That is roughly where the fleet, estimated at several hundred vessels, had been since June, escalating concerns about overfishing and the threat to vulnerable marine species in the nutrient-rich waters around the archipelago that inspired Charles Darwin in the development of his theory of evolution.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://martinsvillebulletin.com/news/world/recent-data-show-chinese-fishing-fleet-still-near-galapagos/article_df7b2b10-1cae-5a76-bb87-4f031b73c833.html?fbclid=IwAR0_pCC5zia93XqTTxYRwLVkLw8_k-bUpmdwD9XQ_oqF8Xw_1IeIWwUM0PY" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Read more in "Martinsville Bulletin"</a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">7. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>These surfers are using sensors in their board fins to monitor ocean warming</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUX51zfrU_ZAo6LqGt5GODNB124d2ynGfu8nafwl4344xbH-I9qw5S1TQLTmBFWQk4l9y2kyCFm_efxyCCM6z8RbqkPVVf8UNWwnwkppMSxfVuvSqP3sNrSykJ2HoyhHeByAhm0AT88o/s1514/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.12.02+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUX51zfrU_ZAo6LqGt5GODNB124d2ynGfu8nafwl4344xbH-I9qw5S1TQLTmBFWQk4l9y2kyCFm_efxyCCM6z8RbqkPVVf8UNWwnwkppMSxfVuvSqP3sNrSykJ2HoyhHeByAhm0AT88o/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.12.02+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Surfers around the world are using Smartfins to gather data about the health of oceans. The </span><span style="font-family: arial;">device is fixed to the tail of surfboards and contains a number of sensors. They can collect information in choppy coastal waters where traditional sensors struggle. Concerns about ocean warming are encouraging surfers to get involved. Who better to study the sea than a surfer? That’s the big idea behind Smartfin, a US-based non-profit that’s giving data-collecting “smart” surfboard fins to surfers. The fins collect a range of data, including temperature and location. The fins are needed because scientists need more data about the warming of our ocean. Since the 1970s more than 90% of the excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions has entered the sea.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/uplink-monitoring-ocean-warming-surfboards/?fbclid=IwAR0_pCC5zia93XqTTxYRwLVkLw8_k-bUpmdwD9XQ_oqF8Xw_1IeIWwUM0PY" target="_blank">Read more in "WeForum"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">8. </span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Study analyses impact of carbon dioxide on Earth’s climate 30 million years ago</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0eqDLohVr0bvd9pxCmEivC82KczgQ6bHGuAYDrdrVv3e9qA2Ny5Aj4wEOWB9CUSRpfWdyGtHqcoHbKpoX-D9HoDuQulpoKECUvBrEP1dNmQ1zCMCjCHcD1rdkssZDBL1vGuH6lPCG2A/s702/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.24.07+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0eqDLohVr0bvd9pxCmEivC82KczgQ6bHGuAYDrdrVv3e9qA2Ny5Aj4wEOWB9CUSRpfWdyGtHqcoHbKpoX-D9HoDuQulpoKECUvBrEP1dNmQ1zCMCjCHcD1rdkssZDBL1vGuH6lPCG2A/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.24.07+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">One way to make better predictions of global warming in the coming centuries is to look at </span><span style="font-family: arial;">climate change in the geological past. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">In research published in Nature Communication (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17887-x) an international team of university experts from Germany, USA and UK – including the University of Southampton – has taken a closer look at the climate during the Eocene Epoch more than 30 million years ago, when global temperatures were around 14 degrees C warmer than present day. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">They discovered that the influence of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on a warm Earth could be even greater than previously assumed.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.miragenews.com/study-analyses-impact-of-carbon-dioxide-on-earth-s-climate-30-million-years-ago/" target="_blank">Read more in "Mirage News"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">9. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Lack of visitors offers opportunity to explore human impact on Hawaiian marine ecosystems</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4ENtfd6g1yIeF_o_WfPYKpbwwS5izaGvr_Sm1ua0Wr1K_A1Jm16nqRDb2Didmlenwyj99J6eXFznQzEqMOMn8Dt90R-QqH1BB-cUbEYebiMsi3jFAnmIag7M3q7A5SBVrSa7pDy_MQ0/s1084/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.35.04+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4ENtfd6g1yIeF_o_WfPYKpbwwS5izaGvr_Sm1ua0Wr1K_A1Jm16nqRDb2Didmlenwyj99J6eXFznQzEqMOMn8Dt90R-QqH1BB-cUbEYebiMsi3jFAnmIag7M3q7A5SBVrSa7pDy_MQ0/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.35.04+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The drastic reduction in visitors coming to Hawaii has afforded scientists a unique opportunity to </span><span style="font-family: arial;">see how one of the state’s most popular natural attractions fares without a human presence. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Roughly 3,000 people per day were visiting the blue water and white sand of Hanauma Bay prior to the pandemic. Those 1 million annual visitors carry a major environmental footprint. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The crescent-shaped inlet on Oahu’s southeast corner has been used as an example of both over-tourism and sustainably-managed tourism over the years. It was declared a marine conservation area in the 1960s, after decades of degradation from overuse. In an effort to help fund maintenance and reduce impact, visitors are now charged an entry fee and public parking is limited.</span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/lack-visitors-offers-opportunity-explore-human-impact-marine-ecosystems?fbclid=IwAR0_pCC5zia93XqTTxYRwLVkLw8_k-bUpmdwD9XQ_oqF8Xw_1IeIWwUM0PY#stream/0" target="_blank">Read more in "Hawaii Public Radio"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">10. </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>There’s no catch: Legislation would have provided more protections for fish</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5BZ4Zxjn0mvHJBosxClNPX1wbExz9iDEA5ID90N1s46ikkedi1zE-Sgp71ozJGkp61ktypyeaFwlSBwpZhNy2mP8b0olGxXHt_4W4hbf8ZLstf675efllQGjRMQMbMUyxrKET_ugPnbM/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.37.48+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5BZ4Zxjn0mvHJBosxClNPX1wbExz9iDEA5ID90N1s46ikkedi1zE-Sgp71ozJGkp61ktypyeaFwlSBwpZhNy2mP8b0olGxXHt_4W4hbf8ZLstf675efllQGjRMQMbMUyxrKET_ugPnbM/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+9.37.48+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;">In California and around the world, protected areas are proven to increase the number of fish </span><span style="font-family: arial;">available outside of the protected space. So even though certain areas are closed to fishing, we actually boost a fishery through what’s called the “spillover effect.” </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Beyond the direct benefits to habitats and species, marine protected areas also help create jobs, boost the economy, and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Commendably, AB 3030 went even further to “improve access to nature for all people in the state,” “with a specific emphasis on increasing access for communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.” </span><span style="font-family: arial;">California is a leader in environmental protection, and moreover, California has become a leader in doing it the right way. This leadership is one of the many reasons I love California and am proud to have chosen this state as my home. </span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2020/09/theres-no-catch-legislation-would-have-provided-more-protections-for-fish/?fbclid=IwAR0_pCC5zia93XqTTxYRwLVkLw8_k-bUpmdwD9XQ_oqF8Xw_1IeIWwUM0PY" target="_blank">Read more in "CalMatters"</a></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> ----------------------------------------------- <br />Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></div>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-52521023947093225042020-08-28T08:17:00.067-07:002020-08-28T11:42:39.598-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" August 27, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Hawaii upholds moratorium on commercial aquarium fishing,</span> Popular fish species disappear from Turkey, </b><span style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Habitats for endangered green sea turtles to be federally protected in Florida, </span><b style="font-family: times;">Ocean acidification causing "osteoperosis" on iconic reefs </b><b style="font-family: times;">and more...</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span>1. </span><span>Hawaii upholds moratorium on commercial aquarium fishing</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa9fClCD96XQKiphhHadkdG2rQXrb9IGo83IwSszTcMXRJafwHwEvAZnfNsQGjmv7yXHZwD5Nnf6y6zUQtW-IpzCaTgO60RxHUOXv_MYBhGYbLI5gHYUkJxKo6K2JYGsv2i8zneFpPYU/s409/aqua.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa9fClCD96XQKiphhHadkdG2rQXrb9IGo83IwSszTcMXRJafwHwEvAZnfNsQGjmv7yXHZwD5Nnf6y6zUQtW-IpzCaTgO60RxHUOXv_MYBhGYbLI5gHYUkJxKo6K2JYGsv2i8zneFpPYU/s0/aqua.jpg" /></a><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The state council on Thursday upheld a decision by the Board of Land and Natural Resources to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">reject an environmental impact statement for a proposal to reopen the Big Island waters to the million-dollar aquarium fish trade. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The land and natural resources board voted in May to reject the impact statement submitted by 10 West Hawaii aquarium fish collectors and the National Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The proposal would have allowed commercial aquarium collectors to take fish using fine-mesh nets, with restrictions including size and bag limits on various fish species and a reduction in the daily bag limit of Achilles tang fish from 10 to five fish.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Hawaii-upholds-moratorium-on-commercial-aquarium-15492202.php?fbclid=IwAR3UgiHFxSnFJy-kBm_6MS2cruP3ennWN4JY_-qAfffDO-Tru_bQgX6Vsfo" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">The Telegraph</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;">2. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Popular fish species disappear from Turkey's Marmara and Black Seas</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjls6c18biy3KJnNn6Al1Gg6jPTO2PlHEherNBo-Po6xgAQYXXiDqWkIkf6rS3AcE7eI03p5h5d6JEvFjMzTmaRz8ozC_-GGsOMt-86KWIzuCuwMjMqlaHbAKt9zCACkq424M3klNh9jTY/s410/tuna.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjls6c18biy3KJnNn6Al1Gg6jPTO2PlHEherNBo-Po6xgAQYXXiDqWkIkf6rS3AcE7eI03p5h5d6JEvFjMzTmaRz8ozC_-GGsOMt-86KWIzuCuwMjMqlaHbAKt9zCACkq424M3klNh9jTY/s0/tuna.jpeg" /></a></div>Bluefin tuna, swordfish and Atlantic mackerel are considered commercially extinct or extirpated on the Turkish side of the Marmara and Black Seas. Researchers with the Sea Around Us initiative at the UBC, Mersea Marine Conservation Consulting, Turkey's Central Fisheries Research Institute and the Institute of Marine Sciences and Management at the University of Istanbul, found that 17 fish species have been extirpated and 17 are commercially extinct in Turkey's Black Sea, while 19 have been extirpated and 22 went commercially extinct in the Sea of Marmara.</div></span></span></div><div style="color: #262626; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "<a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-08-popular-fish-species-turkey-marmara.html?fbclid=IwAR0x-JdQnMhG8qrbKE3UkGOdukuRS6SCz14m8lD5UhEhzDx9bJVDNIzfZVM" target="_blank">PHYS.org</a>"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times;">3. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Habitats for endangered green sea turtles will be federally protected in Florida</span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxmYKphA6hUF39V_T8mt0wpHJmSmAg22xjVmpxToMsmd7GpmyxK4fid20OOhAsPIrUuaojpVPDFinB3j1_L8OG0MJ5Cu2DtgTath2JgIvI5JGGJt_U0NS1-OlLlC3fD6jm5DnX6oC1Xk/s410/turtle.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxmYKphA6hUF39V_T8mt0wpHJmSmAg22xjVmpxToMsmd7GpmyxK4fid20OOhAsPIrUuaojpVPDFinB3j1_L8OG0MJ5Cu2DtgTath2JgIvI5JGGJt_U0NS1-OlLlC3fD6jm5DnX6oC1Xk/s0/turtle.jpg" /></a></div>Endangered green sea turtles will have some of their nesting beaches in Florida protected by </span><span style="font-family: arial;">federal agencies under a new legal agreement with conservation groups. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service must designate protected critical habitats for green sea turtles by June 30, 2023, the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement this week. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The agencies will likely consider proposing protections for beaches where green turtles nest in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as offshore oceanic habitat in the Southeast and on the West Coast, according to the agreement. </span></span></div><div style="color: #262626;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article245132740.html" target="_blank">T</a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article245132740.html" target="_blank">he Miami Herald</a><span>"</span></span></div></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1><span><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">4. Trump, " I am not a big fan of sharks"<br /></span></span></span></h1><div><span><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h1><span><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgzcZH3SQ4&feature=emb_logo" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgzcZH3SQ4&feature=emb_logo" border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1226" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8UX9TCzDQYUxjH2IJ-9_lZmfLMgoxZ-mn9Kb9jx-dt4osDoRAFnnFn0d30YwCi3G35dG2QSfYpbzQ8x3Hg1-BAMImWc2i-oDRMiOiYXJCCXaeNIXSuf5Zxz34TMb0GGWLMd83Iduv6Q/w410-h230/Screen+Shot+2020-08-28+at+2.36.04+PM.png" title="Click here to watch the video" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgzcZH3SQ4&feature=emb_logo" target="_blank">here</a> to watch the video</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></span></span></h1></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Donald Trump has reaffirmed his well-known hatred of sharks, telling supporters he </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">is </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span>“not a big </span></span>fan” of the oceanic apex predators. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">The subject arose during an event in Pennsylvania on Thursday, when the president switched seamlessly from talking about Iraq to discussing mosquitoes, then sharks. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">“They were saying the other night, the shark. They were saying, ‘Sharks, we have to protect them.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute, wait.’ They actually want to remove all the seals in order to save the shark. I said, ‘Wait, don’t you have it the other way around?’ </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">“It’s true,” he added. “I’m not a big fan of sharks either. I don’t know, how many votes am I going to lose?”</span></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><div style="color: #262626; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/donald-trump-sharks-speech-stormy-daniels?fbclid=IwAR2i1ZYYOiLg8wNe6FDlLeZ6R1IJeWkNTXrjQCQUo9YLbugJh1vAeqhW7tY" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>"</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>5. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Mauritius: Anger and questions as 17 dead dolphins wash ashore</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGOgVWIcE0MIA7k3Cp9WyhP2VvWiaOPzonhQDoKbP3I7dJibistQFFbUHjIT4xdVQmLIIO8Kjw7LhdCeteZsKYLiDEkVHZm7D1tK4P_vJz8WxZYQEXB6O8OZktpMGQg8x-_vy1jbAGro/s409/dolphins.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGOgVWIcE0MIA7k3Cp9WyhP2VvWiaOPzonhQDoKbP3I7dJibistQFFbUHjIT4xdVQmLIIO8Kjw7LhdCeteZsKYLiDEkVHZm7D1tK4P_vJz8WxZYQEXB6O8OZktpMGQg8x-_vy1jbAGro/s0/dolphins.jpg" /></a></div>At least 17 dead dolphins have been found on the coast of Mauritius, prompting debates about whether a recent oil spill was to blame. Environmental campaigners say the deaths were either caused by the oil spill from a Japanese-owned ship or by authorities sinking part of the vessel. But the fisheries minister said "at first glance" the deaths appeared to be unconnected to the spill. He said at least two of the dolphins had shark bites. The carcasses are currently undergoing a post-mortem. It is rare for so many dead dolphins to be found at the same time. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53917793" target="_blank">BBC</a>"</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1 style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>6. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Grey reef sharks hunt with the same school or group for years</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq0y4F7ANfJOEN4fp7a9A-jVVSXMk6oynfcFDnkxvjpVpcHomj3xhell-WRfh8qF2MTWBUAr608coyfaoNbMF4g7nS5fUDM-9i3Z1A58P3KnsAsaMKI9rApsCKGB5M1gTw9SRML9ij9hs/s1438/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+12.51.30+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1438" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq0y4F7ANfJOEN4fp7a9A-jVVSXMk6oynfcFDnkxvjpVpcHomj3xhell-WRfh8qF2MTWBUAr608coyfaoNbMF4g7nS5fUDM-9i3Z1A58P3KnsAsaMKI9rApsCKGB5M1gTw9SRML9ij9hs/w410-h298/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+12.51.30+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;">A new study of 41 grey reef sharks shows that they spend their days together on coral reefs, and then swim out to the open ocean at night to hunt, Christopher </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Intagliata and Apoorva Mittal report for NPR. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The study, published on August 12 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, gives new insight into shark social dynamics. Far from the isolated predators of popular imagination, tracking tags and sharks-eye view footage recorded by cameras strapped to the sharks’ fins shows that sharks tend to spend their time with the same group of peers every day. </span></div></span></div><div style="color: #262626; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/grey-reef-sharks-spend-their-days-reef-proximity-associates-180975595/?fbclid=IwAR2PDYB9T2tWn7RfwAa_cO0GxISPBSgpMmyV5zIMCYjambFofQvUdLFAUxA" target="_blank">Smithsonian Magazine</a>"</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1 style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">7. In Australia, no </span><span style="font-family: times;">climate change plan in the updated Reef 2050 Agenda</span></span></h1><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRy4QcSlDCwQxQu8bs6D_1mM23Vd-yyPg830IqOXfWdPHH0GupvyJtxK6mDyRbTCdlHcxBTicMAmksKgFUvGhDBaKkuXRa3LhnKG3RHeXv2vIm5gGKHdzGNbCmp69MphemKCFnGytnFuc/s409/gbr.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRy4QcSlDCwQxQu8bs6D_1mM23Vd-yyPg830IqOXfWdPHH0GupvyJtxK6mDyRbTCdlHcxBTicMAmksKgFUvGhDBaKkuXRa3LhnKG3RHeXv2vIm5gGKHdzGNbCmp69MphemKCFnGytnFuc/s0/gbr.png" /></a></div>The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) says the updated Reef 2050 Plan released </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">today contains no new action to tackle the threat of climate change, despite accepting that global warming is the biggest threat to our Great Barrier Reef. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The updated plan acknowledges there is ‘a critical window of opportunity to take the actions needed to sustain the Reef’, but the plan relies on other countries to do the heavy lifting to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #262626; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.marineconservation.org.au/no-plan-for-climate-change-in-updated-reef-2050-plan/?fbclid=IwAR1ihbhao7ZK2Jvgg5wqCeS1NuUvOgBKCv2Nrj1YkmwtgBfUOC98GJcIbPM" target="_blank">MarineConservation.org</a>"</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>8. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Overfishing in Congo threatens endangered sharks</span></span></h1><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrKgtmLT67Rxw0jFWRpSRHVFH65ldihU_T1ipisnKAzVtCcycQEMgM5rXxEbGTF-5Mr-ihe642nsOCdIVaitsW8Acq7nX-quqrvxQ0NjsFwIlZPhUwjOm5Yv6SM_hy4V32ZgcwSs32vE/s800/s4.reutersmedia.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrKgtmLT67Rxw0jFWRpSRHVFH65ldihU_T1ipisnKAzVtCcycQEMgM5rXxEbGTF-5Mr-ihe642nsOCdIVaitsW8Acq7nX-quqrvxQ0NjsFwIlZPhUwjOm5Yv6SM_hy4V32ZgcwSs32vE/w410-h273/s4.reutersmedia.jpg" width="410" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each day, fishmongers in Congo Republic pile up hundreds of dead sharks on the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">shore and begin lopping off fins and bartering over hammerheads and other endangered species. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bustling seaside business could be jeopardizing the marine environment in the Gulf of Guinea, wildlife trade group TRAFFIC warned this week. Artisanal fishermen are harvesting 400-1,000 sharks and rays per day, according to surveys it conducted last year. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">The fishermen say they don’t have a choice. A rise in industrial fishing by dozens of mainly Chinese trawlers in Congolese waters is eroding their livelihoods. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">“Since the Chinese trawlers arrived, it’s complicated things,” said Alain Pangou, a 54-year-old fisherman. “It’s difficult to live.”</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-congorepublic-sharks/overfishing-in-congo-threatens-endangered-sharks-report-warns-idUSKCN25E0VD?fbclid=IwAR2gtvsPHbGe4jo0auMnFVdhlqaZglP-iajQw0SuEHkLqdvxE2_MGE05KjA" target="_blank">Reuters</a>"</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>9. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Six confirmed white shark sightings in Maine</span></span></h1><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6V1TZPKSe8d9_cwH39WwjyA-uFihC9CTLvvUSqrduZLrg1Blwfs3wNi1D4_xinf_n62K20IpXJ2DO81usMxrjGGY7SnbaAZmCaeScWK8kyLo9e-7q6L3afjCsUlcjPS4UVdVCT0xkBY/s1920/29e9a877-0765-42ab-a50a-066bb83401c4_1920x1080.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6V1TZPKSe8d9_cwH39WwjyA-uFihC9CTLvvUSqrduZLrg1Blwfs3wNi1D4_xinf_n62K20IpXJ2DO81usMxrjGGY7SnbaAZmCaeScWK8kyLo9e-7q6L3afjCsUlcjPS4UVdVCT0xkBY/w410-h230/29e9a877-0765-42ab-a50a-066bb83401c4_1920x1080.jpg" width="410" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shark sightings in the Gulf of Maine are always alarming, but in the last three weeks, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">since Maine's first deadly attack in history, sightings have had some beach-goers on edge. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There have been six confirmed white shark sightings off our coast since late July. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There's a great way to keep track of them in real-time, through the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's "Sharktivity" app or website. The app sightings are reported by researchers, safety officials, and users that upload photos for confirmation. </span></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/six-confirmed-shark-sightings-maine/97-1cc048d5-52c7-4a5d-a460-f971c38ba3c1?fbclid=IwAR1e7-UWpz39K-MlnBchU2crZChSnRFiYs0tlsU1F2IYyPpee5RO1Ex14Js" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">News Center Maine</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""><span><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>10. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">ACB shares ASEAN’s ‘ripples and waves’ in marine conservation efforts</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VhkxuXhyphenhyphen_yavkY6Ly9XpazSYYTQKA3dZt84Ir5YFetoiYzkR6Zzepn__ka7df8DWfl7_69kmJvCAc9g07IDdBH3HDTu0DDVl4qu3Kk-E-uYg3TTTkE1Z_QQpasINtgspnv6VH2OlJ2Q/s944/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.14.18+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="944" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VhkxuXhyphenhyphen_yavkY6Ly9XpazSYYTQKA3dZt84Ir5YFetoiYzkR6Zzepn__ka7df8DWfl7_69kmJvCAc9g07IDdBH3HDTu0DDVl4qu3Kk-E-uYg3TTTkE1Z_QQpasINtgspnv6VH2OlJ2Q/w410-h226/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.14.18+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">While more work and attention are needed for the world’s marine ecosystems, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states have made considerable progress in integrating marine issues in the Region’s biodiversity conservation plans and initiatives, the head of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) said. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACB Executive Director Theresa Mundita Lim spoke about the effectiveness of marine conservation under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at a recent webinar organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) via Zoom. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The ASEAN Member States, especially those that have coastal areas, have incorporated marine conservation efforts into their national biodiversity strategies and action plans,” she said.</span></div></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://pia.gov.ph/press-releases/releases/1050809?fbclid=IwAR15glgPefjS3y4K7yWoDt1qY2QXuYBtoQ1f0gXz-aqL9eqpI9a99dguUNQ" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">Philippine Information Agency</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></div><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>11. </span></span><span style="font-family: times;">Ocean conservation bill clears committee hurdle</span></span></h1><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOmIrdHvKHS5hJTbFA9VAEe3uvKpXicQuHOMcr5JURwMlwSZOU6fTXinYSH42yUwPuvMNUDd0RwCmpeVqwlpcEg0M3VZsldl7k8ajSwWa3oOAia5mGDrs7i5nmRxmSE0IPaeMG4gc5dI/s1286/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.04.48+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1286" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOmIrdHvKHS5hJTbFA9VAEe3uvKpXicQuHOMcr5JURwMlwSZOU6fTXinYSH42yUwPuvMNUDd0RwCmpeVqwlpcEg0M3VZsldl7k8ajSwWa3oOAia5mGDrs7i5nmRxmSE0IPaeMG4gc5dI/w410-h222/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.04.48+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A proposal to implement protections for at least 30 percent of California waters and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">30 percent of the ocean off the state’s coast was approved by a committee in the State Senate, Aug. 12 – despite vocal oppositions by dozens of recreational boating and fishing interests. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Members of the State Senate’s Committee on Natural Resources and Water approved Assembly Bill 3030 (AB 3030) by a 6-2 vote, allowing the proposal to move forward.</span></div></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #262626; font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.thelog.com/newsletter/ocean-conservation-bill-clears-committee-hurdle/?fbclid=IwAR0ESg3q5gbLwX2S8nWHNsKx8mD-gartlR9ojHWqjxKEQqvNwDsJ9tEY2QY" target="_blank">The Log</a>"</span></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">1</span><span style="font-size: medium;">2. </span></b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sculptor uses creativity to raise awareness and protect marine life</span></h1><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: times; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSBNy8CS2Il6XlfEIyexAmrN_KfVlQEYEISu_NdjjQd3DXRjI-jt_QcL7_EPe-qxeaCM9jpS4PNh9RYnBo-l5fkpWOZDoPEVgaHKwAkPr4gi950BqNr5_dW0vv2d2Ty6V2pU7MyjSZiA/s576/200812122515-spc-colleen-flanigan-marine-sculptor-intl-00005123-live-video.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="576" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSBNy8CS2Il6XlfEIyexAmrN_KfVlQEYEISu_NdjjQd3DXRjI-jt_QcL7_EPe-qxeaCM9jpS4PNh9RYnBo-l5fkpWOZDoPEVgaHKwAkPr4gi950BqNr5_dW0vv2d2Ty6V2pU7MyjSZiA/w369-h207/200812122515-spc-colleen-flanigan-marine-sculptor-intl-00005123-live-video.jpg" width="369" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Based in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California, artist Colleen Flanigan uses </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Tilt Brush to design virtual habitats. She showcases endangered fauna and engaging her audience in marine conservation.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Watch video in "</span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/arts/2020/08/12/spc-colleen-flanigan-marine-sculptor-intl.cnn" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">CNN</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><br /></div><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>13. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Mauritians launch rescue to save wildlife from oil spill</span></span></h1></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span face=""><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QV9nFhXhjG3knu0nJWi8UF_6CIcCNSZmlLMmjoPfqk6aAdZ8FMYcOb0zIVaUibXhhXb7JWm3EF5Focv5ccayWGOjGBCsGXNYLHHmRtBY0t7OiTUXqXetkEM4zVZwuwzUvf7tXJFevas/s1166/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.21.10+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1166" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QV9nFhXhjG3knu0nJWi8UF_6CIcCNSZmlLMmjoPfqk6aAdZ8FMYcOb0zIVaUibXhhXb7JWm3EF5Focv5ccayWGOjGBCsGXNYLHHmRtBY0t7OiTUXqXetkEM4zVZwuwzUvf7tXJFevas/w328-h219/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.21.10+PM.png" width="328" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beau Bassin–Rose Hill, Mauritius—Nearly two weeks after the Japanese-owned,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />Panamanian-flagged ship MV Wakashio ran aground off the coast of Mauritius late last month—immediately destroying more than 600 yards of fragile coral reefs—the bulk carrier began leaking oil into the pristine blue lagoons of the Indian Ocean island. The spill threatened to do much greater damage than the ship itself. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within hours of the leak, more than 5,000 local volunteers and dozens of career conservationists jumped into action to save their remote nation’s vibrant, unique wildlife by controlling the oil and moving some species out of harm’s way.</span></div></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mauritians-launch-rescue-to-save-wildlife-from-oil-spill/?fbclid=IwAR2gtvsPHbGe4jo0auMnFVdhlqaZglP-iajQw0SuEHkLqdvxE2_MGE05KjA" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">Scientific American</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">14. Ocean acidification causing coral 'osteoporosis' on iconic reefs</span></h1><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFauCx9L2gL3NEuYabmicQt4FyPn-LeAGKktJ9hlfjPqxkCSUOQqbqR5BpZ4BK9HhZGly5-L77o47bZtr1mYsM_xxjkSKYMUBvodS3l56mQlvg6E5sIrDnZujwVlLEB_QZ2Dwo03pGN0/s409/osteo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFauCx9L2gL3NEuYabmicQt4FyPn-LeAGKktJ9hlfjPqxkCSUOQqbqR5BpZ4BK9HhZGly5-L77o47bZtr1mYsM_xxjkSKYMUBvodS3l56mQlvg6E5sIrDnZujwVlLEB_QZ2Dwo03pGN0/s0/osteo.jpg" /></a></div>Scientists have long suspected that ocean acidification is affecting corals' ability to build their skeletons, but it has been challenging to isolate its effect from that of simultaneous warming ocean temperatures, which also influence coral growth. New research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) reveals the distinct impact that ocean acidification is having on coral growth on some of the world's iconic reefs. </div></div><div><br /></div></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more in <a href="https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/ocean-acidification-causing-coral-osteoporosis-on-iconic-reefs/" target="_blank">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17932-9?fbclid=IwAR2Lx20XZXVKX4lr8PIY4v8hInuC8Pvp91QiW6aHuyKDN7zYWfHbfEnirRA" target="_blank">"</a></span></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>15. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Offshore refueling deepens fears for South Africa's penguin haven</span></span></h1><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUa1IHgB_CRxAcqoJLxcD1UHVg1hdCX2u5F6jnVLwuC5GXDY8E12N3fcKdq8Fgmq4Ni_3CteF_NP0p8iFJbUONMgQ2CBZqj_uYldPUxNIoGWMdHTMMMmIuNo_7VJMt9aPW6SoF3a19ZI/s410/african-penguin-1550x804.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUa1IHgB_CRxAcqoJLxcD1UHVg1hdCX2u5F6jnVLwuC5GXDY8E12N3fcKdq8Fgmq4Ni_3CteF_NP0p8iFJbUONMgQ2CBZqj_uYldPUxNIoGWMdHTMMMmIuNo_7VJMt9aPW6SoF3a19ZI/s0/african-penguin-1550x804.jpg" /></a></div><span>Generators hum loudly in the background as a tour boat bobs past a towering vessel </span><span>filled with </span>ship fuel, anchored in Algoa Bay, a stone's throw away from the world's largest breeding colony of African penguins. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mid-way along the Europe-Asia sea route, the bay's deep-water port was an obvious choice for South Africa's first offshore bunkering operation. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since 2016, mostly cargo ships have pulled in for ship-to-ship (STS) refueling, allowing them to carry more freight, bypass port fees, and save time.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-08-offshore-refuelling-deepens-africa-penguin.html?fbclid=IwAR2cUJEBK_eR6BNlCpi62VvuBtD96c0t-9pRzqoyyl_JYbF4rXw7QS5L5tU" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">PHYS.org</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><h1 style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>16. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">Court ruling gives lobster industry a reprieve — and a deadline</span></span></h1><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxCMvCLx9sBUOjKni5NMq0gWDuiY6R-PAR5At_5AbD4YwSKYQs6WM2mbH8wgUIy4iH0JNYTlGiL3AwdRSlevL6rKc_JeYup2w9Ex38ZJ9P_9HX0VakQnvbth4uXM01AUzpEuPlFXz-4j0/s410/lobster.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxCMvCLx9sBUOjKni5NMq0gWDuiY6R-PAR5At_5AbD4YwSKYQs6WM2mbH8wgUIy4iH0JNYTlGiL3AwdRSlevL6rKc_JeYup2w9Ex38ZJ9P_9HX0VakQnvbth4uXM01AUzpEuPlFXz-4j0/s0/lobster.jpg" /></a></div><span>A federal judge has ordered fishery managers to reanalyze the impact of the </span><span>American lobster </span>industry on endangered North Atlantic right whales, and issue a new rule for protecting the whales by May 31, 2021. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The judge did not, however, ban lobster fishing with vertical buoy lines in a right whale feeding area, as environmental advocates requested.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2020/08/21/federal-court-lobster-industry-right-whales?fbclid=IwAR1dR-M-WCfwTVAOlmddwvkO2TsAAe5E24A4GgY_eeIYw0S9RDeFtAfeB1A" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">WBUR</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><h1 style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">17. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Trump: "I should win the state of Maine"</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp96yzx3zZ0e8ovWPzFuVt271WpI7nxpehqGNIC_7XYIFmZqb5Xssaw6jHbnD66QnYqxxlp5dG94kk2zAveQJCgqhaUN200XOK7y7vkxK-B0iMqFeRTlM9LJBf_E_xi5YtcVHYAVeHSHg/s1474/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.41.04+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1474" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp96yzx3zZ0e8ovWPzFuVt271WpI7nxpehqGNIC_7XYIFmZqb5Xssaw6jHbnD66QnYqxxlp5dG94kk2zAveQJCgqhaUN200XOK7y7vkxK-B0iMqFeRTlM9LJBf_E_xi5YtcVHYAVeHSHg/w410-h226/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+1.41.04+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monday morning on Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump said he thinks he should </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">win Maine in the upcoming General Election. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I should win the state of Maine,” Trump said. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump’s hopes for the outcome of Maine, which is largely considered a swing state, came up as Trump and the hosts discussed the oil and gas leasing program within Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that was approved Monday by the Department of the Interior. </span></div></div></div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://www.kens5.com/article/news/politics/trump-i-should-win-the-state-of-maine/97-48e9cecc-c107-4552-8140-00c7cebd7db0?fbclid=IwAR3wNXSHQ9VuC9GTpaNg7jvsnYy0Uwe3FcD1evOX6AD9r68xyPNMs3wN1fk" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">KENS5</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span><div><span face=""><span><span><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>18. </b></span><span style="font-family: times;">The United Nations Environment Programme and The Ocean Agency join forces with Adobe on new campaign for ocean protection</span></span></div></span></span></span><div><span face=""><span><div><span><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_SLWaWU5SPc9eCcdnaX9UhSafgBjRGVS7TN8ggxGUik2bxPGuzBboq9sQJJa19Hy_otG1IRaZkGUWaMkZI8cowfDg3J8OnprRT6ybwHH-kmBZFHEufBD9rEDcyIDvEvzjxemkD4eN8C4/s1130/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+2.00.01+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1130" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_SLWaWU5SPc9eCcdnaX9UhSafgBjRGVS7TN8ggxGUik2bxPGuzBboq9sQJJa19Hy_otG1IRaZkGUWaMkZI8cowfDg3J8OnprRT6ybwHH-kmBZFHEufBD9rEDcyIDvEvzjxemkD4eN8C4/w410-h232/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+2.00.01+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and The Ocean Agency, in collaboration with creativity partner Adobe, today launched Ocean League, a new campaign that showcases the power of creativity in driving positive change for ocean protection and climate action. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">The ocean is facing a perfect storm of pollution, overfishing, and climate change, and these threats have pushed ecosystems such as coral reefs to the tipping point of collapse. </span></span></p></div></div></div></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "</span><a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/unep-and-ocean-agency-join-forces-adobe-new-campaign-ocean" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">United Nations Environment Programme</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span face=""> ----------------------------------------------- </span><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4409024328111004494" itemprop="" style="font-family: times; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9125420127456204395" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4672871912313134632" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2317162181409469587" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1675672867692437289" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div style="line-height: 20.79px; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: times; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news<br /><br /></i></span></b></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></h3></div>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-57809626269787688002020-08-17T09:08:00.339-07:002020-09-08T18:23:00.346-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" August 21, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b>Galapagos: Thirty species of marine invertebrates discovered, Atlantic Ocean study reveals plastic pollution saturation, Galapagos poachers obstruct</b></span><b> satellite system and evade tracking</b><span><b>, Maldives records highest microplastic pollution </b></span><b>and more...</b></span></p><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1. High concentrations of plastic hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbX7CI2vZnhjc9wbUhhcGbl5P1-vRRoAMVv47e5ArIuMdHq1f1J5tbfUCgRWgzerDM1R5suYQwfARp1BUlCyhBgYutVLJHj8nXGtzdGIH092bMFQtGQAC9bUIGHideaWrS247YphhTpY/s409/deep.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbX7CI2vZnhjc9wbUhhcGbl5P1-vRRoAMVv47e5ArIuMdHq1f1J5tbfUCgRWgzerDM1R5suYQwfARp1BUlCyhBgYutVLJHj8nXGtzdGIH092bMFQtGQAC9bUIGHideaWrS247YphhTpY/s0/deep.jpg" /></a></div>Concern over plastic pollution of the marine environment is severe. The mass-imbalance between the plastic litter supplied to and observed in the ocean currently suggests a missing sink. However, here we show that the ocean interior conceals high loads of small-sized plastic debris that can balance and even exceed the estimated plastic inputs into the ocean since 1950. Considering that plastics of other sizes and polymer types will be found in the deeper ocean and in the sediments, our results indicate that both inputs and stocks of ocean plastics are much higher than determined previously. It is thus critical to assess these terms across all size categories and polymer groups to determine the fate and danger of plastic contamination.</span></span></div></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Read more in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17932-9?fbclid=IwAR2Lx20XZXVKX4lr8PIY4v8hInuC8Pvp91QiW6aHuyKDN7zYWfHbfEnirRA" target="_blank">"Nature</a></span><span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17932-9?fbclid=IwAR2Lx20XZXVKX4lr8PIY4v8hInuC8Pvp91QiW6aHuyKDN7zYWfHbfEnirRA" target="_blank">"</a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Thirty</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> species of marine invertebrates discovered in Galapagos</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrt_ANWW1ePAVtskU8J9quPNGPdbeIqSD4qMNxhluLdtj1w97iErCog5fhyphenhyphen6VIpRXNESfBzZo45kU1z_0AXC33hY4W0UG2hWtIRw46S7b7PtJ0Z1TqMYpUGMBK5fl0nnTAjG4niY-VJH4/s410/invertbrates.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrt_ANWW1ePAVtskU8J9quPNGPdbeIqSD4qMNxhluLdtj1w97iErCog5fhyphenhyphen6VIpRXNESfBzZo45kU1z_0AXC33hY4W0UG2hWtIRw46S7b7PtJ0Z1TqMYpUGMBK5fl0nnTAjG4niY-VJH4/s0/invertbrates.jpg" /></a></div><div>An investigation in the deep protected waters of the Galapagos Marine Reserve identified 30 new species of marine invertebrates. This discovery includes four species of squat lobsters, one of giant cup coral, ten of bamboo corals, three of octocorals, one of brittle starfish and eleven of sponges. This research is a collaborative work of a multidisciplinary and comprehensive team of scientists, who descended to 3,400 meters using the most modern remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) aboard the E / V Nautilus. The expedition explored for the first time three seamounts, which do not break the surface, located around the islands Darwin and Wolf.</div></div></span></span></div><div style="color: #262626; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more in "<a href="https://www.galapagos.gob.ec/en/30-species-of-marine-invertebrates-discovered-in-galapagos/" target="">Galapagos National Park</a>"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>3. </span><span>Chinese fishing boats near Galapagos have cut satellite systems, Ecuador says</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwPo0wb3Ob1fscC49Pado-9D-zT1AkA0HE6glCtBXYQQ7Mo7mDIJHLfJ1oIZv4DNxRBXpg2T05XqlisRjwA6iiOYbR3x5hkc5MRd0HUXqlus7RrGQEJ8WqhrkphBRDSvWWbQCx0Gb29E/s410/chinese+boats.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwPo0wb3Ob1fscC49Pado-9D-zT1AkA0HE6glCtBXYQQ7Mo7mDIJHLfJ1oIZv4DNxRBXpg2T05XqlisRjwA6iiOYbR3x5hkc5MRd0HUXqlus7RrGQEJ8WqhrkphBRDSvWWbQCx0Gb29E/s0/chinese+boats.jpg" /></a></div></span></span></span><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ecuador’s armed forces said on Tuesday that dozens of vessels from a predominantly Chinese fishing fleet operating near the Galapagos Islands have turned off tracking systems to prevent monitoring of their activities. Of around 325 ships still fishing in the waters near the ecologically sensitive Galapagos, 149 have at some point in recent months cut off communications, navy commander Rear Admiral Darwin Jarrin told reporters. Some vessels’ names had also been changed to avoid supervision, he said. “In this period, 149 ships have turned off their satellite systems … we know the name of the ships,” Jarrin said during a press conference. He declined to identify the vessels.</span></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span>Read more in "</span></span><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3097929/chinese-fishing-boats-near-galapagos-have-cut-satellite" target="">South China Morning Post</a><span>"</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Maldives records highest microplastic pollution</span></b></div><div style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEK9xKpzLDDQw9svITEL336onojsFLRM8BZdZ7piU-zv0TUbL9VMbkVhXnsycHjOkOiYcf5gzW37LjJLAnI2vFucnSC2n5owr4MBVBZ9mC4kdLqvg57d1fncvaUS2UAgiwVVfrZa2AiEQ/s384/plastic.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEK9xKpzLDDQw9svITEL336onojsFLRM8BZdZ7piU-zv0TUbL9VMbkVhXnsycHjOkOiYcf5gzW37LjJLAnI2vFucnSC2n5owr4MBVBZ9mC4kdLqvg57d1fncvaUS2UAgiwVVfrZa2AiEQ/s0/plastic.jpg" /></a>The amount of microplastic pollution in waters around the Maldives, a global tourist hot spot known for its beautiful coastline, is amongst the highest in the world and has the potential to severely impact marine life in shallow reefs and threaten the livelihoods of island communities. Marine scientists from Flinders University recorded the levels of plastic pollution in sand across 22 sites off the coast of Naifaru, the most populous island in Lhaviyani Atoll, to determine how much microplastic is present around the island. The high levels of harmful plastics were likely both transported by ocean currents from neighboring countries in the Indian Ocean like India as well as from Maldivian land reclamation policies, poor sewerage & wastewater systems adding to an unsustainable environmental situation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more in <a href="https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2020/08/13/maldives-records-highest-micro-plastic-pollution/" target="_blank">"Flinder's University"</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Surprising coral spawning features revealed</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJC04v-9Xx0I7uf8hrp7exxRVAQshTu1ibiy3i-gt9FRS3vwf2y7efndeYUgzoNtl1w3ct_pgjAodiBrf4oQ3N8g-KjxYjgpCGwO8jm6B_A9qMEwQWAcbuc6tpzgrkz-YEzjCEZZ5lWe4/s410/coral.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJC04v-9Xx0I7uf8hrp7exxRVAQshTu1ibiy3i-gt9FRS3vwf2y7efndeYUgzoNtl1w3ct_pgjAodiBrf4oQ3N8g-KjxYjgpCGwO8jm6B_A9qMEwQWAcbuc6tpzgrkz-YEzjCEZZ5lWe4/s0/coral.jpg" /></a>When stony corals have their renowned mass spawning events, in sync with the moon's cycle, colonies simultaneously release an underwater "cloud" of sperm and eggs for fertilization. But how do the sperm and eggs survive several hours as plankton, given threats from predators, microbes and stresses such as warming waters? A Rutgers-led team has discovered some surprising features in coral sperm and eggs (collectively called gametes), according to a new study. While coral eggs are large and sperm cells are tiny and far more numerous, the scientists showed for the first time that eggs and sperm appear to be surprisingly similar when it comes to the gene functions they express during the planktonic stage. Proteins encoded by genes, in a process called gene expression, play many critical roles and perform most of the work in cells.</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more in <a href="https://www.rutgers.edu/news/surprising-coral-spawning-features-revealed" target="_blank">"Rutgers University"</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Lungfish fins reveal how limbs evolved</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyI8nRHQ3bs6yxwxnVScyTNp-zvRWAW0SyIWb16kBpQwqx-iu66SUQ1pRhJTiqewnmi5ePCSzgNeOg9yIWoDnd42lvX28dBvMRAivA2tJYOTCjaMxusWW9tsGGnY8HgK5t9WRZAAdQ83I/s409/lung.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyI8nRHQ3bs6yxwxnVScyTNp-zvRWAW0SyIWb16kBpQwqx-iu66SUQ1pRhJTiqewnmi5ePCSzgNeOg9yIWoDnd42lvX28dBvMRAivA2tJYOTCjaMxusWW9tsGGnY8HgK5t9WRZAAdQ83I/s0/lung.jpg" /></a>The evolution of limbs with functional digits from fish fins happened approximately 400 million years ago in the Devonian. This morphological transition allowed vertebrates to leave the water to conquer land and gave rise to all four-legged animals or tetrapods -- the evolutionary lineage that includes all amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals (including humans). Since the nineteenth century, several theories based on both fossils and embryos have been put forward trying to explain how this transformation unfolded. Yet, exactly how hands with digits originated from fish fins remained unknown.</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more in <a href="https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/university/news-and-media/current-announcements/news-in-detail/lungenfischflossen-zeigen-wie-sich-gliedmassen-entwickelten/" target="_blank">"University of Konstanz"</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">7. The current US administration greenlights increased fishing at hatcheries</span></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4M8tBMMkoPuWwxu-1V559sSAAgHxT5ab4YkGGwFADHfYJu98WnCvrT0_utfzJjKnP6KpWUblNhqYihrkMkahIZrTOZMAK6KWXxVehwpvCVqsUyz-IPlakJTkyUCn2pVMCLxPBiCCBybs/s409/MooseKNWR-1024x791.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4M8tBMMkoPuWwxu-1V559sSAAgHxT5ab4YkGGwFADHfYJu98WnCvrT0_utfzJjKnP6KpWUblNhqYihrkMkahIZrTOZMAK6KWXxVehwpvCVqsUyz-IPlakJTkyUCn2pVMCLxPBiCCBybs/s0/MooseKNWR-1024x791.jpg" /></a>The Trump administration on Tuesday opened up or expanded hunting and fishing at nearly 150 national wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, expanding hunters' ability to kill big game, migratory birds and other animals. The 147 newly opened or expanded hunting sites are scattered across nearly every state and include parts of the Everglades in Florida, the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas and the Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more in <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/512582-trump-administration-greenlights-hunting-expansion-at-nearly-150" target="_blank">"The Hill"</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">8. Stanford researchers develop new way to study ocean life</span></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDXNl3Jahj4wyiBeV-CpVEQGoeOoqYmZwJH433xL1SxyeqfovbBNYEVfkKUdvfUL2nS1POqookjg1bnRfCbDZAQdttnggkDFTcuzsIIj5eTKwMx2yEjhAzBQwYiZ17xH-Daem9V739vA/s1050/Screen+Shot+2020-08-20+at+12.14.13+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="1050" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDXNl3Jahj4wyiBeV-CpVEQGoeOoqYmZwJH433xL1SxyeqfovbBNYEVfkKUdvfUL2nS1POqookjg1bnRfCbDZAQdttnggkDFTcuzsIIj5eTKwMx2yEjhAzBQwYiZ17xH-Daem9V739vA/w410-h270/Screen+Shot+2020-08-20+at+12.14.13+PM.png" width="410" /></a>A new Stanford-developed rotating microscope, outlined in a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-0924-7" target="_blank">study</a> published Aug. 17 in Nature Methods, offers for the first time a way to track and measure these enigmatic microorganisms’ behaviors and molecular processes as they undertake on their daily vertical migrations.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Read more in <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2020/08/17/new-way-study-ocean-life/#:~:text=Insights%20from%20an%20innovative%20rotating,processes%2C%20such%20as%20carbon%20fixation." target="_blank">"Stanford University News"</a></div><div>Read the original paper in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-0924-7" target="_blank">"Nature Methods"</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></span></span></div></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; 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You Stay Informed<p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Plastic pollution plagues Southeast Asia amid Covid-19 lockdowns, </b><b>Greenland ice sheet calves, Whale shark sale in India, Trump signs $3 B plan to boost conservation, Mauritius oil spill and more...</b></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><b>1. </b></span><b>Plastic pollution plagues Southeast Asia amid Covid-19 lockdowns</b></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGp5XSB6mcGvPDYz2bzCNZZk6ySZiEAcDcEg1_fWJde_2ATFTjhnv7cL9ccr9mzibfagc331CKpekXDB_Xr4KpZWCQ-t5wZhuNV5stN16v7_DMQLu1jDMaWKOMLsUb90GcTnxfKmEjYg/s2048/pexels-magda-ehlers-2547565.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGp5XSB6mcGvPDYz2bzCNZZk6ySZiEAcDcEg1_fWJde_2ATFTjhnv7cL9ccr9mzibfagc331CKpekXDB_Xr4KpZWCQ-t5wZhuNV5stN16v7_DMQLu1jDMaWKOMLsUb90GcTnxfKmEjYg/w410-h274/pexels-magda-ehlers-2547565.jpg" width="410" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">With consumers around the world stuck at home amid the spread of Covid-19 – which has infected close to 19 million people and killed more than 700,000 – the utilization of single-use plastic has skyrocketed, raising concerns about recycling and surging pollution. Many people are reliant on food delivery services and online shopping platforms to obtain goods and stay connected, with a corresponding increase in disposable packaging. Southeast Asia is no different. More than 50 percent of the eight million tonnes of plastic waste that ends up in the world’s oceans every year comes from Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, environmental advocacy group Ocean Conservancy estimates – partly because richer Western countries such as Australia, Canada, Britain, and the United States have sent massive shipments of waste to these countries for decades.</span></div></span></div><div style="color: #262626; font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href="https://bit.ly/2E0c424">South China Morning Post</a>"</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><br /></b></div></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">2. </span><b>Warming Greenland ice sheet passes the point of no return</b></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRocHty2144Qk2OYzUJBKFG8i2tAvZTsIx_37WWkGRWXjEXGJ_8uw0F3lpbk8VvwL6xs8rXxg4MfMyaPeerqS_P4jBtXvux5oaltQ4WHfyoOn_umg03ncOHChQ78Cnn_OMEwhefMj1J_0/s1486/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+3.55.45+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1486" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRocHty2144Qk2OYzUJBKFG8i2tAvZTsIx_37WWkGRWXjEXGJ_8uw0F3lpbk8VvwL6xs8rXxg4MfMyaPeerqS_P4jBtXvux5oaltQ4WHfyoOn_umg03ncOHChQ78Cnn_OMEwhefMj1J_0/w410-h242/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+3.55.45+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking. The finding, published today, Aug. 13, in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, means that Greenland's glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts, where the snowfall that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot keep up with the ice that is flowing into the ocean from glaciers. That means that even if humans were somehow miraculously able to stop climate change in its tracks, ice lost from glaciers draining ice to the ocean would likely still exceed ice gained from snow accumulation, and the ice sheet would continue to shrink for some time.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in <a href="https://bit.ly/2DVn4h3" target="_blank">"Ohio State News"</a>.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;">Read more from the original study "<a href="https://go.nature.com/33YNBoG" target="_blank">Here"</a>. </span></div></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">3. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">Trump signs $3B-a-year plan to boost conservation, parks</span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYHpBcCJwC5ptYOLybQeRdUDkURJbPN8Sw5sLHQ2XKyopDCGhqi4wRvNGCBy82RmRqrdvcylR2cHGXQa64pjw2q6zxHawztwQNW7rbEeXS0u80kknQOTnJAJ-LxR67JD78zRZY2S1DS8/s1482/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.17.08+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1482" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYHpBcCJwC5ptYOLybQeRdUDkURJbPN8Sw5sLHQ2XKyopDCGhqi4wRvNGCBy82RmRqrdvcylR2cHGXQa64pjw2q6zxHawztwQNW7rbEeXS0u80kknQOTnJAJ-LxR67JD78zRZY2S1DS8/w410-h270/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.17.08+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday that will devote nearly $3 billion a year to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands following its overwhelming approval by both parties in Congress. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">"There hasn't been anything like this since Teddy Roosevelt, I suspect," Trump said, seemingly comparing himself to the 26th president, an avowed environmentalist who created many national parks, forests and monuments that millions of Americans flock to each year. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Supporters say the Great American Outdoors Act is the most significant conservation legislation enacted in nearly half a century. Opponents countered that the money isn't enough to cover the estimated $20 billion maintenance backlog on federally owned lands.</span></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in <a href="https://bit.ly/3fOE9Xi" target="_blank">"Press-Republican"</a>.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. </b></span><b>Whale shark found cut into pieces for sale in India </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div><span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXgNGX4ZjpB1MPJB-u3fSEFJ77CrfsYEL10Ej9qULjteiubigyUNofXX3aXAqjyFfCpjTRvEMC9WLnEnqgGc_EwDsxdZKHNtvBXO6kFEhgVT-DeFpNJ4GyFXyicvi5hJTulo3Eu2dtls/s1858/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+3.58.24+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1858" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXgNGX4ZjpB1MPJB-u3fSEFJ77CrfsYEL10Ej9qULjteiubigyUNofXX3aXAqjyFfCpjTRvEMC9WLnEnqgGc_EwDsxdZKHNtvBXO6kFEhgVT-DeFpNJ4GyFXyicvi5hJTulo3Eu2dtls/w410-h227/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+3.58.24+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The carcass of a 20-foot-long dead female whale shark was caught by a fishing boat that was brought to Sassoon Dock in Colaba, India on Wednesday morning. The shark was cut into pieces in an attempt to sell the protected species to a distributor. Two people have been detained in the matter and further investigation is underway by the fisheries and forest department. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972, and listed as ‘endangered’ species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are the largest species of any fish that can reach a maximum length of 40-feet. The incident comes eight days after the fisheries department initiated an investigation and called for action regarding unauthorized fishing practices affecting rare and endangered marine species. </span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;">Read more in <a href="https://bit.ly/3aoLKe3" target="_blank">"Hindustan Times"</a>.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-weight: 400;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span><span><b>5. </b></span></span><span><b>California initiative to fight plastic pollution submits petitions to qualify for statewide ballot</b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6IuAn0MJOSaUoxvfdzq96Kz6Vskt7t6piIUMR-UcGqZ4eIni_LU7CC_CVRm_smsyOeb0BbPz5DZdcppkbUXKNBoRnPZ5ENj_NHvoySN5qIG7GbIineLQh72_HtQNAWsQGyZasIVPBts/s1210/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.10.58+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1210" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6IuAn0MJOSaUoxvfdzq96Kz6Vskt7t6piIUMR-UcGqZ4eIni_LU7CC_CVRm_smsyOeb0BbPz5DZdcppkbUXKNBoRnPZ5ENj_NHvoySN5qIG7GbIineLQh72_HtQNAWsQGyZasIVPBts/w410-h262/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.10.58+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div><div>Supporters of an initiative to reduce plastic waste today submitted more than 870,000 voter signatures to qualify the Plastics Free California initiative for the ballot – significantly more than the 623,212 signatures required. The initiative was originally on track to appear on this November’s ballot; however, the signature gathering was slowed to respect and protect public health as a result of the pandemic. A court extended the original deadline, and a surge of volunteer support provided the remaining signatures needed to appear on the next general election to occur after this November – presumably in November 2022. The news was applauded by a wide range of respected individuals and organizations supporting the initiative.</div></div><div><span><br /></span></div></div></div></span></span><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span face=""><span face="" style="font-family: arial;"><span><span>Read more in <a href="https://bit.ly/33TuBrH" target="_blank">"News Break</a></span></span><span><a href="https://bit.ly/33TuBrH" target="_blank">"</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">6. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">Mauritius dodges second oil spill as fuel pumped from stricken ship</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4prrwzGarJ0MhXCgS4SOlG4WUUWc5jfsSnLPDSf49lXTOgmZGCTC_4wf_vwwtGMYjgIihKIVeF-cq2TYL91Fq7E0dyXmK4vmbHRUa9TPZgagWHthndjo6Om-fgGp1gcokt7mw5cyU58/s1478/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.22.33+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1478" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4prrwzGarJ0MhXCgS4SOlG4WUUWc5jfsSnLPDSf49lXTOgmZGCTC_4wf_vwwtGMYjgIihKIVeF-cq2TYL91Fq7E0dyXmK4vmbHRUa9TPZgagWHthndjo6Om-fgGp1gcokt7mw5cyU58/w410-h245/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.22.33+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div><span>Just two decades ago, it was rare to see one dead whale along New York’s</span><span> shores in a single<span> </span></span><span>year. But this </span>month alone, two dead humpback whales were spotted on Long Island — bringing the total to seven large whale strandings in the New York area in 2020. In the past three years, 52 carcasses of the large sea mammals have washed up in the waters around New York — averaging around one stranding every 27 days, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in <a href="" id="https://bit.ly/3h12bzS" name="https://bit.ly/3h12bzS">"PHYS.org"</a>.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></h3></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span face="">7. </span></span></span></span><b>Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean</b></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCqrvymwmppXu1rHBcOMwgUDZlXr17M84DpAIy8YYD-RDgTlvC2aeep8SSaUFl_qi9OqqIlwUFJ5Bjg7GPyzifC0UL23K7A9TYMzEyI7knjb416Uy_G7HDjSJOoADEgIZ8nq3qbFkjOk/s1484/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.05.24+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1484" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCqrvymwmppXu1rHBcOMwgUDZlXr17M84DpAIy8YYD-RDgTlvC2aeep8SSaUFl_qi9OqqIlwUFJ5Bjg7GPyzifC0UL23K7A9TYMzEyI7knjb416Uy_G7HDjSJOoADEgIZ8nq3qbFkjOk/w410-h236/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.05.24+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Earlier this year, a team from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), National Museum of Nature and Science (NMNS), and Kochi University (KU) set out to collect specimens of sea worm near the South Orkney Islands, a remote region of the Southern Ocean about 400 miles northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. </span><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">The researchers collected material from the seafloor at depths of 2,036 to 2,479 meters, a segment that falls within what oceanographers call the bathyal zone (1,000 to 4,000 meters deep). Among the collected seafloor material, they observed a new Acrocirridae Banse, a family that now includes 43 species of worm, all but two of which are bottom-dwelling. The team, led by Naoto Jimi, a postdoctoral fellow at NIPR, published their findings in Biodiversity Data Journal on June 8, 2020.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Read more in <a href="https://bit.ly/2PSr2tG" target="_blank">"EurekAlert!"</a>.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><b>8. </b></span></span></span><b>Biotelemetry provides a unique glimpse into white-spotted eagle rays' behavior</b></span></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #262626; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-NqiADTveWRaZyZXl17nlJZLwQuEdOQ-C7BRHYo36yLKLUvn0q2AuxUibxym0SJWT9UZjF4j8PCt8z1zwLh9lda_RUjKEk3sj7_RWfSmuiZevNY1E0wpu46VtLFQCs0m39h0vxhE_Vs/s1566/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.09.10+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1566" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-NqiADTveWRaZyZXl17nlJZLwQuEdOQ-C7BRHYo36yLKLUvn0q2AuxUibxym0SJWT9UZjF4j8PCt8z1zwLh9lda_RUjKEk3sj7_RWfSmuiZevNY1E0wpu46VtLFQCs0m39h0vxhE_Vs/w410-h270/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.09.10+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div>The white-spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari), found in estuaries and lagoons throughout Florida, is listed as “near threatened” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “Red List of Threatened Species.” Keeping tabs on this highly mobile species for conservation efforts can be extremely challenging, especially for extended periods of time. </span><span>Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’</span><span>s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute used uniquely coded transmitters and acoustic telemetry to give t</span><span>hem a leading edge to unravel fine-scale movement, behavior, and habitat use of white-spotted eagle rays in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. Biotelemetry provided the researchers with unique insights into this species’ occupancy, which is not apparent at the landscape-scale.</span></span></div></div></div><div><span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span><span face="">Read more in <a href="https://bit.ly/3kHGM0J" target="_blank">"Florida Atlantic University"</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div><div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><b>9. </b></span></span></span><b>Discovery transforms understanding of hydrogen depletion at the seafloor</b></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZNPF7hyInxSPOSn20KUYOeBXQTolcd22zTX0BEvZF18QeLS6IysI5vZ-1I1trNE9RVkpedWhsVp8OZ8tOgxTc0qWf2UvNbV7U29EynR_NgQDsCM6SwBUxL6pRoNKD_yF3gYeGzr1Ds8/s1354/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.25.20+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1354" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZNPF7hyInxSPOSn20KUYOeBXQTolcd22zTX0BEvZF18QeLS6IysI5vZ-1I1trNE9RVkpedWhsVp8OZ8tOgxTc0qWf2UvNbV7U29EynR_NgQDsCM6SwBUxL6pRoNKD_yF3gYeGzr1Ds8/w410-h234/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.25.20+PM.png" width="410" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The discovery of hydrothermal vents―where volcanoes at the seafloor produce hot fluid exceeding 350 degrees Celsius or 662 degrees Fahrenheit―fundamentally changed our understanding about Earth and life in the 1970s. Yet, life at and underneath the seafloor is still very much a mystery today. Gaining a better understanding of these volcanically active areas is important, as the chemistry at seafloor vents impacts ocean chemistry more generally. In addition, the seafloor’s unique environment supports biological and non-biological processes that offer clues as to how life on Earth first began, how it is sustained over time―and the potential for life on other planetary bodies.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Read more in "<a href=" https://bit.ly/2Fnqgmn" target="_blank">Lehigh University"</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><b>Opinion and Round-up Publications:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">1. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">Who's your daddy? Male seahorses transport nutrients to embryos</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS2geXbgeUtILogBLAisL56nRN_bZAI4pzW9m7IhpEI6Iph1B8N8ACbGdp1XZco-r8My-Zms1jCs9whyI8w2sOnbRoe2ojuX85X5TDGY3hNOmTcP9DLhaZ3TKcl_nN27BMuoY1kumNS3E/s1200/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+1.30.52+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1200" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS2geXbgeUtILogBLAisL56nRN_bZAI4pzW9m7IhpEI6Iph1B8N8ACbGdp1XZco-r8My-Zms1jCs9whyI8w2sOnbRoe2ojuX85X5TDGY3hNOmTcP9DLhaZ3TKcl_nN27BMuoY1kumNS3E/w410-h251/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+1.30.52+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New research by Dr.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Camilla Whittington and her team at the University of Sydney has found male seahorses transport nutrients to their developing babies during pregnancy. This discovery provides an opportunity for further comparative evolutionary research. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seahorses and their relatives are the only vertebrates that have male pregnancy. The expectant fathers incubate developing babies inside a pocket called a "brood pouch." We know a male seahorse can have more than a thousand embryos in the pouch at once but until now, researchers had limited understanding of how the babies are fed.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2XXzwnE">Read more in "University of Sydney" </a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span><span face=""><span face=""><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />2. </b></span></span></span><b>Inaccurate and biased global media coverage is a threat to sustainable shark conservation</b></div><div><br /></div><span><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFoAX6WTFMaj1NuKEuPZxlO5lbsn5w04JW4p7E8KAocx0okDoyLxKibNO-XKLkN7V4ZmRKacqhnlCDx8J6moQRKfUIrv9fSXqASGXC67Hlxad66XIRd5L7NIU1z7vWF5E37mSHv0xOKA/s1326/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.14.24+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1326" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFoAX6WTFMaj1NuKEuPZxlO5lbsn5w04JW4p7E8KAocx0okDoyLxKibNO-XKLkN7V4ZmRKacqhnlCDx8J6moQRKfUIrv9fSXqASGXC67Hlxad66XIRd5L7NIU1z7vWF5E37mSHv0xOKA/w410-h267/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+4.14.24+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div></span>Does media coverage of an animal influence what we know about them? The short answer, yes! But a team of researchers wanted to know how massive the discrepancy was between how trained experts talked about shark conservation threats and solutions, and how the concerned non-expert public talks about shark conservation threats and solutions. “I'm both a scientist who studies threatened sharks and how to protect them, and a public science educator who talks to the interested public about these important topics,” the study’s lead author Dr. David Shiffman, a Postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, said. “So the focus of my research the last couple of years is trying to understand why so many people believe wrong things about shark conservation, with a focus on tracking what information is shared through different information pathways, including the popular press. Longtime social media followers know that I regularly gripe about wrong nonsense in news articles about sharks, but we wanted to systematically, scientifically test how prevalent this nonsense is.”<br /><span face=""><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span><span><a href="https://bit.ly/3iF9g9G">Read more in "Forbes"</a></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><b>3. Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: arial;"><span><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9IhdeDgeIUbafWfJglmbnMdibCacs_gHU3kBF25wvXicUzAfSg2cjuvy4apbMLSLTLlshPz25WpO5LUzYjXz0YLhms9ticQcc6VQ6j1Dfoe9PXBFjjNFGx7zxyFp0cD1kiQXWOso8wYs/s1270/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+1.23.36+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1270" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9IhdeDgeIUbafWfJglmbnMdibCacs_gHU3kBF25wvXicUzAfSg2cjuvy4apbMLSLTLlshPz25WpO5LUzYjXz0YLhms9ticQcc6VQ6j1Dfoe9PXBFjjNFGx7zxyFp0cD1kiQXWOso8wYs/w328-h170/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+1.23.36+PM.png" width="328" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The amount of oil spilled from the Japanese-owned ship nearby the lagoons and coastal areas of south-east Mauritius is relatively low compared to the big oil spills the world has seen in the past, but the damage it will do is going to be huge and long-lasting, experts say. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unlike most previous offshore spills, this has taken place near two environmentally protected marine ecosystems and the Blue Bay Marine Park reserve, which is a wetland of international importance. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, it's the location rather than the size of the spill which is causing greatest concern about its p</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">otentially serious environmental impact.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: arial; 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The Ocean Week in Review is a team effort produced by the Sea Save staff to provide a weekly summary of the latest in marine research, policy, and news</i></span></b></div><div><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3>Sea Save Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002420966816238173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390426145098006230.post-61080682275026788822020-08-06T23:53:00.179-07:002020-08-07T15:09:11.078-07:00Sea Save Foundation "Ocean Week in Review" August 7, 2020: We Gather News; You Stay Informed<h3><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">800 Chinese ships found fishing in North Korea, Global community far behind United Nations Oceans Goals, Toxic pollutants found in stranded dolphins and whales, Fukushima wastewater dumping, New penguin colonies seen from space, Bulk carrier ship leak oil off Mauritius coast and more...</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">1. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">Over 800 Chinese vessels found fishing in North Korean waters in 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LNtuOwnxJgnV8Ff8vKpapwncE1eY-KSxZQ6SqRpcRPNMaeFOWE5LMEaqLfcDKgk-gSjlzs08WYvZQ3LDL2wVqjjd-vE7Kqs66kAOtZh8X-0CIwKx5Wes8U72WEDs_FfbYsYg0SCKYZY/s960/800.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LNtuOwnxJgnV8Ff8vKpapwncE1eY-KSxZQ6SqRpcRPNMaeFOWE5LMEaqLfcDKgk-gSjlzs08WYvZQ3LDL2wVqjjd-vE7Kqs66kAOtZh8X-0CIwKx5Wes8U72WEDs_FfbYsYg0SCKYZY/w410-h230/800.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over 800 Chinese vessels caught Pacific flying squid and other marine resources in North Korean waters last year, likely in violation of U.N. sanctions on foreign fishing adopted following Pyongyang's testing of ballistic missiles, according to officials of organizations looking into the issue. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The discovery by Global Fishing Watch and the Outlaw Ocean Project, using satellite data, also suggests that overfishing in the waters has caused a sharp fall in squid catch in neighboring Japan. Global Fishing Watch, an ocean conservation nonprofit group co-founded by Google LLC, which released the outcome of the probe last week, also believes that vessels from China have been pushing North Korean wooden boats to fish far off, resulting in more than 100 of them being washed ashore in Japan every year as "ghost boats."</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in "Kyodo News" <span>by pasting</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> this URL in your browser:</span> <a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.do%2F800chinesevessels%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3uLIzpduggJgb8PgF0KDrK-Qqoow3Mt0rMli2PCwgvWnvrgE5GMZU5lEo&h=AT3mPhLRbJplNL1OBA2WZpKkjcBKlHQUZhYq6ZIU4Oe-qnVlNmCMrbaWwEdMWlVCCBc3okYUHxyixzDlvuaL33SMKRj_2rkZ5WANoQ1vvq7mCyFoPXNjbMyjw4GUoVMeLLna46rM5tBSWFUf0-ttG9vV" href="http://bit.do/800chinesevessels?fbclid=IwAR3uLIzpduggJgb8PgF0KDrK-Qqoow3Mt0rMli2PCwgvWnvrgE5GMZU5lEo" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: white; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">http://bit.do/800chinesevessels</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;">2. REPORT United Nations: Sustainable Development Goals - We are far behind our objective</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZUhy5f1BvGN6Zph8lJzMx2D2_ir57i3bgByd5bwFbUFHoZrACjiuKgOCM8fXCbtdopVGUp58Vi97f0EU4mXTZfv1uEbAREaUSePdXdtPml7M9m0X8JPUWFssG6ui5NMsSmh47m5DZQd0/s1626/Screen+Shot+2020-08-06+at+8.54.54+PM.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1626" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZUhy5f1BvGN6Zph8lJzMx2D2_ir57i3bgByd5bwFbUFHoZrACjiuKgOCM8fXCbtdopVGUp58Vi97f0EU4mXTZfv1uEbAREaUSePdXdtPml7M9m0X8JPUWFssG6ui5NMsSmh47m5DZQd0/w328-h193/Screen+Shot+2020-08-06+at+8.54.54+PM.png" width="328" /></a></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />The latest United Nations analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) shows that countries are failing to protect the world’s ocean and land environments. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">With 10 years to go until 2030 — the endpoint of the SDGs, after which they’ll be reassessed and updated — most markers of ocean and land integrity are declining amid reckless industrial activity that destroys ecosystems and over-exploits natural resources, according to the Sustainable Development Report 2020, which reviews countries' performances on the 17 SDGs so far. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overall, not a single country has achieved the 2020 targets for SDG 14: Life Below Water. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in "Global Citizen" <span>by </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">pasting this URL in your browser:</span> http://bit.do/unitednationsfail</span></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">3. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">More seals mean more sharks off New England coast</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="clear: right; float: right; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="More seals means learning to live with sharks in New England ..." height="262" src="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/meridianstar.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/74/574396ad-0645-594c-a144-95431589aa88/5f232f4c9b4ad.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800" width="393" /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seals are thriving off the Northeast coast thanks to decades of protections, and that victory for wildlife has brought a consequence for humans — more encounters with sharks. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seals are a favorite prey of large sharks such as the great white. The death this week of swimmer Julie Dimperio Holowach, who was killed by a great white off Harpswell, Maine, might have happened because the shark mistook her for a seal, authorities said. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Swimmers off the New England states have learned to be more mindful in recent years due to a spate of sightings of great whites, the apex predator made famous in the movie Jaws. A shark that killed a man off Cape Cod in 2018 was also believed to be a great white.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in "Boston CBSLocal" </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by pasting this URL in your browser:</span> http://bit.do/sealsmeanmoresharks</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">4. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">The weird human garbage found inside whales</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9JtoYpRJulbCB9bbNCS41JiFcGBTfIHrAQZxCUyaSIjtXfdai_JqVuowtJp74gNCizj332KclFqLTKoOGvDN71_0mvRFvD7SUIT7hyphenhyphenoKvpiwIIwSwElxIV63SCXQDc81bOmRwG0SIwQ/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-08-06+at+8.03.20+PM.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2048" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9JtoYpRJulbCB9bbNCS41JiFcGBTfIHrAQZxCUyaSIjtXfdai_JqVuowtJp74gNCizj332KclFqLTKoOGvDN71_0mvRFvD7SUIT7hyphenhyphenoKvpiwIIwSwElxIV63SCXQDc81bOmRwG0SIwQ/w410-h278/Screen+Shot+2020-08-06+at+8.03.20+PM.png" width="410" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just two decades ago, it was rare to see one dead whale along New York’s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> shores in a single<span> </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">year. But this month alone, two dead humpback whales were spotted on Long Island — bringing the total to seven large whale strandings in the New York area in 2020. In the past three years, 52 carcasses of the large sea mammals have washed up in the waters around New York — averaging around one stranding every 27 days, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in "The New York Post" </span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">by pasting this URL in your browser:</span> http://bit.do/garbageinsidewhales</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">5. </span><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;">Study finds high levels of toxic pollutants in stranded dolphins and whales</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4xx2I8MqRZR7eDLigryNgCrvZlJZ8T38jJK4YMWtTepkKM0L3u36z_9-XUWMLl3ZG335cj9-lqHW4emMvgAbSh8d_qDDL5etI_D5kv9uRaAjcqHAfAeA3Z4Vod7En4qM4BIwVEIro0Y/s1600/116015342_294515521624976_4740065819911376577_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Stranded Whale, Florida, Atlantic Ocean, Pollution, Marine Environment, Pathology, Marine Mammals, Toxins, Fossil Fuels" height="266" src="http://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/gervais-whale-newsdesk.jpg" width="399" /></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Researchers examined toxins in tissue concentrations and pathology data from 83 stranded dolphins and whales from 2012 to 2018. They looked at 11 different animal species to test for 17 different substances. The study is the first to report on concentrations in blubber tissues of stranded cetaceans of atrazine, DEP, NPE and triclosan. It also is the first to report concentrations of toxicants in a white-beaked dolphin and in Gervais' beaked whales.</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read more in "Florida Atlantic University" by pasting this URL in your browser: </span>http://bit.do/strandedwhalesdolphines</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 700;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b><b>6. Mix of contaminants in Fukushima wastewater, risks of ocean dumping</b></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM61GaJmtdvd46vAxsBqperoC7nEk65hXOQ_ZMRG_YGAfskgn0chsGjgW3gBPAoRXQ3D3k2L9n4UDrA3sD4GI5Vf9HKSf9ERvRISjFPAbPd9Vlh1JsQ0rdw8Vf7dhqGGxr1VE5Ak519c0/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+11.31.38+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Mix of contaminants in Fukushima wastewater, risks of ocean dumping" height="246" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/mixofcontami.jpg" width="410" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nearly 10 years after the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant and triggered an unprecedented release radioactivity into the ocean, radiation levels have fallen to safe levels in all but the waters closest to the shuttered power plant. Today, fish and other seafood caught in waters beyond all but a limited region have been found to be well within Japan's strict limits for radioactive contamination, but a new hazard exists and is growing every day in the number of storage tanks on land surrounding the power plant that hold contaminated wastewater. An article published August 8 in the journal Science takes a look at some of the many radioactive elements contained in the tanks and suggests that more needs to be done to understand the potential risks of releasing wastewater from the tanks into the ocean.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "Science", </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by pasting this URL in your browser: </span>http://bit.do/fukushimafloodgates<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span face="">7. </span></span></span><span><b>Scientists discover new penguin colonies from space</b></span></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisBtZhfFgIyOJFgpVqAuHO2ubfE3qQ0lfsuCFCrRn4i3cWcC_QzLAKva6u-zSaGoF-DKSUeVQSwMlE4jo7Rlgztk4o5SzWzV5bBsG3NRycbLShyE_RRdraEA5oZhISKld4iDIOqmAo5NI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+12.07.51+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img height="283" src="https://www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6a13dc0551775b3b2d7470cb68ea540e_1483630776-736x552.jpg" width="377" /></a></div><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than was previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact of environmental change on the population of this iconic bird. Emperor penguins need sea ice to breed and are located in areas that are very difficult to study because they are remote and often inaccessible with temperatures as low as ?50°C (?58 degrees Fahrenheit). For the last 10 years, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have been looking for new colonies by searching for their guano stains on the ice.</span><br /><div style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Read more in "British Antarctic Survey (BAS)" </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by pasting this URL in your browser: </span>http://bit.do/penguincolonies</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><div><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>8. </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span><b>Plastics, pathogens and baby formula: What’s in your shellfish?</b></span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMipyX5thCVutKypIYDZxa2sBMQe_VuY7emC3o1TBwxiMKekcCH14wYm6WTrYAIdHNhW0Do0kwo9qXMQYMXP17wk88E97cC1rE2CgMqI1wk0PCps2JEfgtfDCWFlJhZPgQlpfoUoo2Lv4/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+11.27.39+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Plastics, pathogens and baby formula: What’s in your shellfish?" height="263" src="https://news.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Lamb_lr-768x512.jpg" width="393" /></span></a></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The first landmark study using next-generation technology to comprehensively examine contaminants in oysters in Myanmar reveals alarming findings: the widespread presence of human bacterial pathogens and human-derived microdebris materials, including plastics, kerosene, paint, talc and milk supplement powders. </span><span>The study — led by scientists from the University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with Environmental Defense Fund, Cornell University and the University of Queensland — was conducted in the eastern Andaman Sea through partnerships with local researchers in Myanmar in the densely populated but still rural Tanintharyi region. The study concludes that coastal urbanization and lack of sewage treatment increases contamination in seafood and can cause potential health risks to humans, even large distances from pollution sources.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span><span>Read more in "University of California - Ir</span></span><span>vine", </span></span></span></span><span>by pasting this URL in your browser: <b>http://bit.do/plasticpathogens</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><span face=""><b>9. </b></span></span><b>Lab-grown and replanted corals to spawn in the Florida Keys</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkl4_NG0vvNO9uGXyg1m0RgLS-dfs-lmQvFktcEPg8Adtn33T9gow7_7GZGQKIYkexEAv25s8xKlsywBbOXQrpfYTeKCjKUYARNlG87zxHnNXBi2nq-LQUDL33UDW7XlFICV6x_JeVXM/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+11.35.06+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="coral" height="246" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/coral.jpg" width="410" /></span></a></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #262626;">Not long after the August full moon, Florida's reefs are the scene of an annual show of sexual reproduction called the coral spawn, with coral colonies releasing masses of tiny white, pink and orange spheres into the ocean. </span><span style="color: #262626;">This year, for the first time, corals raised by scientists in a lab and transplanted to the natural reefs are primed to join the spawn—a promising milestone for ongoing efforts to restore the ravaged reef systems off South Florida. </span><span style="color: #262626;">"This is really amazing because we had no idea what to expect when we planted these corals five years ago," said Hanna Koch, a coral reproduction scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory, which is using a technique called micro fragmentation-fusion to raise the corals on land and plant them on local reefs.</span></span></div></div><div style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span><span face="">Read more in "Miami Herald", </span></span></span><span>by pasting thi</span><span>s URL in your browser: <b>http://bit.do/coralmilestone</b></span></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: start;"><div><div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="font-weight: 700;"></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"></div></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="">10. </span><span face="">Washington dam removal means 37 more miles of salmon habitat restored</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span face="" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="salmon" height="246" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2019/3-salmon.jpg" width="410" /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 500;">Washington's dam-busting summer is still rolling, with two more dams coming down on the Pilchuck River, opening 37 miles of habitat to salmon for the first time in more than a century. </span><span style="font-weight: 500;">The $2 million</span><span style="font-weight: 500;"> </span><a class="textTag" href="https://phys.org/tags/dam+removal+project/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">dam removal project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 500;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 500;">is a collaboration between the City of Snohomish and Tulalip Tribes, and will benefit multiple species of</span><span style="font-weight: 500;"> </span><a class="textTag" href="https://phys.org/tags/salmon/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">salmon</span></a><span style="font-weight: 500;">, including threatened</span><span style="font-weight: 500;"> </span><a class="textTag" href="https://phys.org/tags/chinook+salmon/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">chinook salmon</span></a><span style="font-weight: 500;">, crucial food for endangered southern resident killer whales. </span><span style="font-weight: 500;">It's the state's second dam tear</span><span style="font-weight: 500;">down project in two months. In July, the</span><span style="font-weight: 500;"> </span><a class="textTag" href="https://phys.org/tags/city/" rel="tag" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">city</span></a><span style="font-weight: 500;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 500;">o</span><span style="font-weight: 500;">f Bellingham blew up its Nooksack Diversion Dam on the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River, opening 16 miles of habitat for salmon, including chinook.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "PHYS.org", </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by pasting this URL in your</span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> browser: </span>http://bit.do/salmonhabitat</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span face=""><b>11. </b></span></span><b>Seal-eating killer whales accumulate large amounts of harmful pollutant</b></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Seal-eating killer whales accumulate large amounts of harmful pollutants" height="308" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/1-sealeatingki.jpg" width="461" /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Research of killer whales in the southern Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean have shown that their blubber contains high levels of pollutants called PCBs, whilst killer whales found along the Norwegian coast have been assumed to be healthy and at low risk from pollution. This is because when researchers took samples from nine Norwegian killer whales in 2002, they found lower levels of pollutants than other populations.</span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "PHYS.org", </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by pasting this URL in your</span><span> browser: <b>http://bit.do/killerwhales</b></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><b>12. </b><b>Fossil mystery solved: Super-long-necked reptiles lived in the ocean, not on land</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXlzkfPBAzg5m0LRYBHua3qbOENysOAsRukmsvdh6sKIcjTsBAOdYUhkI1aQRKfcqmYVVqwKQvCFZKJTN0ooyyCA0HITWxn3BxDHVND2TB200MCn3_uk_T9IzkLMiLn0sPiKAY0TYEZg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+11.45.58+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Long neck helped reptile hunt underwater" height="246" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/longneckhelp.jpg" width="409" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">A fossil called Tanystropheus was first described in 1852, and it's been puzzling scientists ever since. At one point, paleontologists thought it was a flying pterosaur, like a pterodactyl, and that its long, hollow bones were phalanges in the finger that supported the wing. Later on, they figured out that those were elongated neck bones, and that it was a twenty-foot-long reptile with a ten-foot neck: three times as long as its torso. Scientists still weren't sure if it lived on land or in the water, and they didn't know if smaller specimens were juveniles or a completely different species -- until now. By CT-scanning the fossils' crushed skulls and digitally reassembling them, researchers found evidence that the animals were water-dwelling, and by examining the growth rings in bones, determined that the big and little Tanystropheus were separate species that could live alongside each other without competing because they hunted different prey.</span></div><div style="color: #262626;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><span face=""></span></span><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more in "Field Museum", </span></span></span><span>by pasting this URL in</span><span> your browser: <b>http://bit.do/fossilmystery</b></span></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span face=""><span face=""><b>13. </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><b>Bulk carrier sitting on reef off Mauritius starts to leak bunker fuel</b></span></span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf31UIL-abkNh7wR-ieH1osx9EjQO2yKJsq-tW6ADkGzXdsWmp4VjoLfl4LWFX7hP7KCGY5zBDDtlMTa89fQ-Qy09Vlwvu9z92vdBQ3FK8-8BYr4eg7SXtCEH4Q_IujNAJcpafH5kRZm8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+11.48.10+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="241" src="https://splash247.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Wakaship-Mauritius-780x470.jpg" width="399" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div>The 203,000 dwt Wakashio bulk carrier, which ran aground on a reef just off the southeast coastline of Mauritius on July 26, has started spilling bunker fuel into the famous azure seas of the French-speaking republic. Local authorities have ordered the public, including boat operators and fishermen, not to venture to the beach and in the lagoons of Blue Bay, Pointe d’Esny and Mahebourg. “All highly sensitive areas including the Ramsar site of Pointe d’Esny and the Blue Bay Marine Park have been protected with booms,” a government spokesperson said. The ship, owned by Japan’s Nagashiki Shipping, was en route from China to Brazil when it ran aground with 3,800 tonnes of bunker fuel onboard. “Due to the bad weather and constant pounding over the past few days, the starboard side bunker tanker has been breached and an amount of fuel oil has escaped into the sea. Oil prevention measures are in place and an oil boom has been deployed around the vessel,” a spokesperson for the Japanese shipping company said today. </div><span face=""><br /></span><span face=""><span face="">Read more in "Splash 247", </span></span>by pasting this URL in your browser: <b>http://bit.do/bunkerfuelleak</b><br /><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><span face=""><b>14. </b></span></span><b>Dolphin calf entangled in fishing line only lived two years following rescue</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cxw3byq3dLODoRXTUhaYHIxQSruqqg5dCFsMUtSOkXZ23cpQij6U_6eosRIOeWhI0HhxRwbjXS1zBuTlrO1SlsxBPPnI7EDiu40l4JFwdyt2ceu163Vi2sSXEYO3GzlGpUY8hmjuhbY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+12.05.33+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Bottlenose Dolphin, Entanglement, Fishing Line, Indian River Lagoon, Rescue and Release, Recreational Fishing, Habitat, Long-term Damage" height="266" src="http://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/dolphin-enganglement-newsdesk.jpg" width="399" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>More than 1,000 bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) live in the Indian River Lagoon year-round. The estuary system along the central east coast of Florida stretches about 250 kilometers and provides valuable shallow water habitat for this species. The lagoon also is popular for recreational fishing spots, which often coincide with bottlenose dolphin feeding habitats because they target the same species of fish. In fact, it very common to observe interactions between dolphins and recreational fishermen. These interactions include dolphins going after bait or captured fish, illegal feeding of dolphins, and dolphin encounters during release of undersized or non-targeted fish.<br /><span face=""><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span>Read more in "Florida Atlantic University", </span><span>by pasting this URL in your browser: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span><b>http://bit.do/dolphinrescue</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Opinion Pieces:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="http://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/entangled-dolphin-study.php" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></a></span><span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: start;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="269" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5c7969df006eda6f330028c3b63cb8aab1af5cb5/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=30feeaf0098b50013ee1240133e32991" width="448" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>15. </b></span></span><span><b>What can you do to fight the climate crisis?</b></span></span></div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG-Uctl7RoFmlNh1VMerhDNhlFVmywPr2Yc9V9WeuVxfuIwrUfgiq2J_Hp_Zt59f00hE3Cc85dEOUMneoshofoIfJpU1m4Kh_-jEgkP3V_dsWULqpGD65BezeEggy0CTq65RGVn0YvXiA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-30+at+11.59.16+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the climate crisis intensifies, scientists and experts agree that systemic change is critical. But while individual efforts alone aren’t enough to reverse global heating, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do. We asked several climate scientists and advocates about individual actions that can make a difference.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>What’s one thing you do in your day-to-day life to combat the climate crisis?</b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist:</b> I have transitioned over 80% of the talks I give to virtual online events (100% these days!), and when I do travel, I bundle my requests and commitments such that I am doing anywhere from 4-5 to as many as 15-25 events in each location that I fly to, in order to minimize the carbon footprint of each individual event.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>Adrienne Hollis, climate justice and health scientist:</b> I am being mindful about the water shortage. I like to plant around my deck, and I use my rain barrel to water my plants. It’s a small thing, and it’s a big thing. I get up at about 6 to water my plants, and I grow my herbs and peppers. It makes me feel like I am making a difference. And feeling like you’re making a difference is important. It’s finding your way of contributing. 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So in May 2019, when the couple sat down with 50 guests for their wedding lunch at Tin Lung Heen restaurant, in The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, the popular wedding dish shark’s fin soup was off the menu. </span><span>“I’ve been a wedding planner for a decade and in the past few years have been happy to see restaurants in the city remove shark’s fin soup from their menus,” Li says. “We both love the ocean so at our wedding we wanted to spread the word that people should refuse shark’s fin soup not just at weddings but for all occasions.”</span></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Read more in " South China Morning Post", </span><span>by pasting this URL in your browser: </span><span><b>http://bit.do/weddingsharks</b></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face=""> ----------------------------------------------- </span><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4409024328111004494" itemprop="" style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9125420127456204395" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4672871912313134632" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2317162181409469587" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1675672867692437289" itemprop="" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div style="line-height: 20.79px; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Sea Save Foundation is committed to raising awareness of marine conservation. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A new analysis finds that without immediate and sustained action, the annual flow of plastic into the ocean could nearly triple by 2040. The study also identifies solutions that could cut this volume by more than 80% using technologies available today, if key decision-makers make system-wide changes. The research found that if no action is taken to address the projected growth in plastic production and consumption, the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year would grow from 11 million metric tons to 29 million metric tons over the next 20 years, equivalent to nearly 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of plastic on each meter of coastline worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Shoppers’ use of plastic carrier bags in England has continued to fall – by 59% in the last year alone – since the introduction of the 5p charge, according to recent figures. </span><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Overall, sales of single-use plastic carrier bags have dropped by more than 95% in England’s main supermarkets since the charge was introduced in October 2015, government data reveals. </span><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">In the past 12 months, Asda, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, the Co-operative Group, Tesco and Waitrose sold 226m bags – 322m fewer than in 2018-19.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Juvenile fishes have one of the highest mortality rates compared to other life stages. Within two days of settling into a reef almost 60 percent are consumed by predators. Our recent study found noisy boats and ships can also affect the prey response of these young fishes. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When exposed to the noise of vessels, juvenile fishes decreased their activity, which reduced their swimming distance. Previous research found more active fishes learn faster about their environment and potential predators, which results in a higher chance of survival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Microplastics have been found in the guts of sharks that live near the seabed off the UK coast. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">University of Exeter scientists studied four species of demersal (seabed-dwelling) shark. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of the 46 sharks examined, 67% contained microplastics and other human-made fibers. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A total of 379 particles were found and -- though the impact on the sharks' health is unknown -- the researchers say it highlights the "pervasive nature of plastic pollution."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Whale sharks, as their name implies, are very large—they can grow to be 18 meters long. They are unique in other ways, as well—they tend to eat mostly plankton and they have eyes on the sides of their heads instead of in front, as is the case with most other sharks. They can also retract their eyes if need be to protect them from other creatures in the sea, and unlike most other sharks, they do not have eyelids. Now, researchers have found that their eye coverings are covered in tiny teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rhode Island is still the only state in the country with an offshore wind farm, but that will change in the coming years as wind farms are built along the entire Eastern Seaboard, from Virginia all the way up to Maine. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now five years old, the Block Island wind farm, consisting of just five turbines, has been the subject of considerable study as scientists determine what impacts, if any, the construction of the facility and the turbines themselves are having on the ecosystem. Researchers are also looking to the future, when thousands of wind turbines will be coming online. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">New fishing measures to protect critically endangered dolphins, Climate change may intensify disease outbr</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">eak, </span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Endangered Australian fish sold in shops and restaurants, </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1,150 kg manta ray caught off the Indian coast, Arctic town records highest temperature ever, and more...</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New protections were introduced on Wednesday to protect Hector's and Māui dolphins from threats posed by fishing vessels. There are around 15,000 Hector's dolphins in the wild, though the Māui is critically endangered, with only 63 dolphins over the age of one remaining, according to the Department of Conservation. <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 64, 66); text-align: left;">Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash said the new rules would "significantly increase fishing restrictions in dolphin habitats, focusing on methods with the highest potential to affect dolphins".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A pair of conservationists have found that viruses are largely to blame for the deadliest mass die-offs in marine mammal species in decades — and the changing climate will only intensify the factors contributing to these outbreaks. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Claire Sanderson and Kathleen Alexander — who both work for Virginia Tech’s fish and wildlife conservation department published their research based on a review of scientific literature on 36 mass mortality events involving infectious diseases and marine mammal populations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Even after more than 20 years in the ocean, everyday plastics can show very few signs of breaking up or degrading, according to a new study examining the effects of deep-sea submersion on this problematic material. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Researchers looked at two plastic samples recovered from 13,615 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, finding that the majority of the plastic was still fully intact.</span></span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scientists have found manmade mercury pollution in the deepest part of the ocean, the Marianas Trench. The discovery raises new questions about how mercury may affect the marine environment and whether it has accumulated in the food chain. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The findings, which have been reported by two research groups, were presented at the </span>Goldschmidt Conference<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. </span></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mercury is poisonous in any form, and some types of fish absorb methylmercury in contaminated water. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marine eco-systems in English waters need greater legislative protection, according to a new independent review. Heriot-Watt's Chief Scientist, Professor Michel Kaiser, was one of eight expert panel members invited to give their insight and guidance on "The Benyon Review into Highly Protected Marine Areas" (HPMAs) published this wee</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">k. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212438; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">It sets out a series of recommendations including calls for the UK Government to introduce HPMAs alongside the existing Marine Protected Areas network.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212438; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first-ever detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off the east Australian coast reveals this apex predator spends more time feeding close to the seabed than expected. “Within the sharks’ stomachs, we found remains from a variety of fish species that typically live on the seafloor or buried in the sand. This indicates the sharks must spend a good portion of their time foraging just above the seabed,” said lead author Richard Grainger, a Ph.D. candidate at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A giant manta ray (Mobula birostris) weighing about 1,150 kg was caught by fishermen near Palayakatippa beach in Krishna district. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ray was caught on the evening of June 15, in the gill net by a group of six fishermen on a mechanized boat. The fishermen, led by Venkanna, had ventured into the sea on June 11. The b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oat owner said that the aquatic animal was brought out from the water at the Gilakaladindi harbor with the support of a crane. The 1,150-kg ray fetched 37k rupees at the Kakinada harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean during a joint project between scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, UK (NOC), the University of Hawai'i, and the University of Geneva. 'Moana' has inspired the name Moanammina for one of the new genera, while the second has been named Abyssalia in recognition of its abyssal habitat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tanaids are one of the most underappreciated animals in the world. These small crustaceans can be found in virtually all marine benthic habitats, from mangroves, rocky shores and coral reefs along the coasts to mud volcanoes, cold seeps and trenches in the deepest oceans. They even inhabit the shell surfaces of sea turtles, live inside gastropod shells like hermit crabs, and reside under the skin of deep-sea sea cucumbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers from Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Ryan Institute at the National University of Ireland have carried out a study on the contribution of widely flushed personal care textile products (wet wipes and sanitary towels) to the ocean plastic crisis. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Liam Morrison led the study, which showed that sediments adjacent to a wastewater treatment plant are consistently strewn with white microplastic fibers that are comparable to those from commercially available consumer sanitary products. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The temperature in a Russian town located within the Arctic circle reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, the hottest temperature on record for the area. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Verkhoyansk, a town in the region of Siberia known for experiencing wide ranges in temperatures throughout the year, reported a temperature reading of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38 degrees Celsius, the Associated Press reported. The previous record was 98.96 degrees Fahrenheit, while temperatures of -90 degrees Fahrenheit have also been reported in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Senators on Wednesday highlighted holes in recycling infrastructure exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, questioning how Congress can stop a plastic pollution crisis from emerging alongside a public health crisis. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many municipalities paused recycling pickup programs as part of stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, causing recyclables to either end up in landfills or pile up outside. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging businesses to use disposables, and cities have pulled back on single-use plastic bans, further contributing to pollution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century than predicted by most climate models. This additional CO2 causes distinctly stronger ocean acidification. These results were published in a study by climate scientists from the University of Bern and École normale supérieure in Paris. Ocean acidification threatens the life of calcifying organisms—such as mussels and "sea butterflies"—and can have serious consequences for the entire food chain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We need new guidelines to shield whales from human-made noise to ensure them some peace and quiet. It is no good keeping whale-watching boats out of whales' sight if the noise from the boats' engines disturb the whales most. And whales can hear the boats' engines from far away, according to a Danish-Australian research team. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Public authorities around the globe have set restrictions on whale-watching boats in order to protect whales. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During a visit to rural Maine on Friday, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to open a vast protected site off the East Coast to commercial fishing ― a move that goes against the very purpose of designating a marine monument. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Established by the Obama administration in 2016, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument encompasses more than 4,900 square miles off the East Coast and is home to ancient seafloor canyons and seamounts, endangered whales, deep ocean corals and numerous migratory fish species. Rolling back the restrictions on that area, the liberal Center for American Progress estimated, would eliminate nearly 85% of ocean protections along the United States outside the remote western Pacific.<span id="goog_206265034"></span><span id="goog_206265035"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When most of us think about what climate change will do to our coastlines we tend to focus on how sea-levels are rising as the polar ice caps melt and the oceans warm. But that is only part of the story. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What many don’t realize is that at the same time as sea levels are rising, storms are increasing in magnitude and frequency, resulting in larger ocean waves. These waves increase coastal erosion and the risk of flooding. N</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ew research suggests that by the end of the century the magnitude of extreme wave events will have increased by up to 10 percent over extensive ocean regions, and the frequency of storms that generate extreme waves will have increased by five to 10 per year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A new study led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers shows that fluctuations in population sizes in the past have had a significant effect on contemporary seal populations, and estimates the risk of genetic impoverishment in the species investigated. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the course of Earth's history, evolution has given rise to an enormous range of biological diversity, which in turn enabled the emergence of complex, species-rich ecosystems. The availability of adequate levels of genetic variation is a basic prerequisite for evolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has declared a state of emergency in a region in northern Siberia after a huge oil spill turned a river crimson and threatened to inflict significant damage to the Arctic environment. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More than 20,000 tons of diesel leaked into the Ambarnaya River near the city of Norilsk last Friday, after a fuel tank collapsed at a power plant. Norilsk Nickel, which owns the plant, said in a statement that thawing permafrost had caused one of the tank’s pillars to collapse. The oil leaked more than seven miles from the site.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Тhе Wоrld Ваnk Маrіnе Соnѕеrvаtіоn аnd Сlіmаtе Аdарtаtіоn Рrојесt (МССАР) fоr Веlіzе, set goals to ѕtrеngthеn thе сlіmаtе rеѕіlіеnсе оf thе Веlіzе Ваrrіеr Rееf ѕуѕtеm. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Тhе рrојесt іnсludеѕ thе іmрrоvеmеnt оf соrаl rееf рrоtесtіоn thrоugh ехраndеd mаrіnе рrоtесtеd аrеаѕ аnd соrаl оutрlаntіng. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Less than a week before World Environment Day, June 5th, the Maharashtra Forest Department has proposed the declaration of the 2,011 sq km Angria Bank as a protected area. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If approved this will be the first such marine protected zone in this part of India. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angria Bank, is a submerged plateau. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The coral formation, located at a depth of 20 to 400 meters, includes 39 species of hard and soft corals. Currently, the reef shows no evident signs of bleaching.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333;">It was the most commonly caught shark in in northern Brazil during the 1980s then catch numbers plummeted around 85%.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A healthy and resilient ocean can help tackle climate change while providing sustainable food sources and jobs around the world. Half of the world’s GDP is dependent on nature, according to the World Economic Forum, and more than 3 billion people rely on the ocean for their livelihoods. As countries begin to manage the economic and social impact of COVID-19, the ocean can be part of the solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NOAA and a variety of academic institutions will conduct a study looking at carbon dioxide uptake and ocean acidification in both North American coasts. The primary target of this work is to compare the East and West Coast. Researchers were able to identify the similarities and differences of ocean acidification and target hotspots that will be vulnerable to acidification in the future.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an effort to encourage public engagement with science, translators play a vital role in bridging the gap between us and research. </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">These scientific storytellers help distill dry, monotonous textbook writing, and turn it into something that inspires, educates, and motivates people to learn more. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientific storytelling can take a lot of different forms. Teachers, docents, and journalists all work to find ways to deliver science’s message to the masses, in the hope that it will capture attention and spark a conscious shift in perspective, ultimately with the goal of changing our behavior in favor of the planet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Warming ocean temperatures and acidification drastically reduce the skeletal strength and filter-feeding capacity of glass sponges, according to new UBC research. </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The findings, published in Scientific Reports, indicate that ongoing climate change could have serious, irreversible impacts on the sprawling glass sponge reefs of the Pacific Northwest and their associated marine life—the only known reefs of their kind in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Geophysicists and Inuit hunters unite to record narwhals, Scientists define path of microplastics from insects to river predators, Distinct timeline for climate-related coral death and more...</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A squad of climate-related factors is responsible for the massive Australian coral bleaching event of 2016. If we’re counting culprits: it’s two by sea, one by land. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, El Niño brought warmer water to the Coral Sea in 2016, threatening Australia’s Great Barrier Reef’s corals. Long-term global warming meant even more heat in the region, according to a new CIRES assessment. And in a final blow that year, a terrestrial heatwave swept over the coast, blanketing the reef system well into the winter, Karnauskas found. The final toll: more than half the coral in some parts of the Great Barrier Reef died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scientists have created the first-ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they bloomed across the surface of snow along the Antarctic Peninsula coast. Results indicate that this 'green snow' is likely to spread as global temperatures increase. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The team, involving researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey, combined satellite data with on-the-ground observations over two summers in Antarctica to detect and measure the green snow algae. Although each individual alga is microscopic in size, when they grow en masse they turn the snow bright green and can be seen from space. The study is published today in the journal Nature Communications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A new study by the University of Southampton has revealed why some corals exhibit a dazzling colorful display, instead of turning white, when they suffer 'coral bleaching' - a condition which can devastate reefs and is caused by ocean warming. The scientists behind the research think this phenomenon is a sign that corals are fighting to survive. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many coral animals live in a fragile, mutually beneficial relationship, a 'symbiosis' with tiny algae embedded in their cells. The algae gain shelter, carbon dioxide, and nutrients, while the corals receive photosynthetic products to fulfill their energy needs. If temperatures rise just 1 C above the usual summer maximum, this symbiosis breaks down; the algae are lost, the coral's white limestone skeleton shines through its transparent tissue and a damaging process known as 'coral bleaching' occurs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ocean warming is likely to alter the distribution and lifecycle of ecologically and commercially important Antarctic krill over the rest of this century, according to new IMAS-led research. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the study looked at how krill growth habitat is likely to be affected by changes to ocean temperatures and the concentration of the species' preferred food, phytoplankton. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The research team found there would be a moderate impact across 85 percent of the Southern Ocean, with krill expected to move further south and shifts in the time of year when conditions are most favorable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Monte Conca cave system on the island of Sicily is a vast system of springs and pools, sitting below a nature preserve. It might be presumed to be one of the few places untouched by human-driven pollution. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But new research published by a University of South Florida microbiology and geoscience team has found that even below ground, the microbial communities in the pools of water in the Monte Conca cave show signs of being altered by pollution from above.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produce organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When plankton die or are consumed, a set of processes known as the biological carbon pump carries sinking particles of carbon from the surface to the deep ocean in a process known as marine snowfall. Naturalist and writer Rachel Carson called it the “most stupendous snowfall on Earth.” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of this carbon is consumed by sea life, and a portion is chemically broken down. Much of it is carried to deep waters, where it can remain for hundreds to thousands of years. If the deep oceans didn’t store so much carbon, the Earth would be even warmer than it is today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Texas game wardens scanning the internet spotted a restaurant’s menu offering that caught their eyes: shark fin and shredded chicken soup. It’s illegal to sell shark fin in the state. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The game wardens went to the restaurant in Harris County and found frozen shark fins in a freezer, according to a news release. During their inspection, the owner led the game wardens to shark fin soup on a stove, telling them it was for personal consumption, officials said. Then a game warden found more shark fin in cellophane inside a freezer. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The owner again insisted that it was for personal consumption,” officials said. That’s when a game warden grabbed a menu from a table and pointed to the shark fin soup listed on it, officials said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientists have discovered where a whale species that feeds around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia breeds during the winter months. This understanding of where the animals migrate from will enable conservation efforts for their recovery from years of whaling. The results are published this week (20 May 2020) in the Journal of Heredity. Southern right whales were hunted to near extinction after centuries of whaling. In the most comprehensive study of its kind, 30 researchers from 11 countries studied 15 skin samples from whales feeding around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia and compared them to 149 samples collected from around Argentina and Brazil and South Africa where the whales breed and give birth to their calves. New samples were collected from South Georgia during an expedition led by the British Antarctic Survey in 2018 and were combined with samples held by a network of collaborators across the globe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Noises produced by European spiny lobsters—known as antennal rasps—may be detectable up to 3 kilometers underwater, according to a study in Scientific Reports. The sound, created when lobsters rub an extension of their antenna against a 'file' below their eyes, may be used for communication or to deter predators. Its detection could help conservation efforts, the study suggests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scientists have discovered the world's oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its prey, in a fossil dating back almost 200 million years. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fossil was found on the Jurassic coast of southern England in the 19th century and is currently housed within the collections of the British Geological Survey in Nottingham. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a new analysis, researchers say it appears to show a creature -- which they have identified as <i>Clarkeiteuthis montefiorei</i> -- with a herring-like fish <i>Dorsetichthys bechei</i> in its jaws.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Researchers from Czechoslovakia and Germany believe that chemoautotrophs (chemical eaters) recycle approximately five percent of the carbon and phosphorus assimilated by marine algae and release small portions of dissolved organics into the ocean each year. These findings are now published in the journal Science Advances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hong Kong has seized 26 tons of smuggled shark fins, sliced from some 38,500 endangered animals, in the largest bust of its kind in the southern Chinese city. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The record haul was discovered in two containers from Ecuador and highlights the continued demand for shark fin, which is served at wedding banquets in many Chinese communities. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The city's customs department unveiled the haul on Wednesday and said it smashed previous records. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Each consignment consisting of 13 tons broke the previous record seizure of 3.8 tons of controlled shark fins made in 2019," customs official Danny Cheung told reporters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The UK's vast marine territories are monitored by the Royal Navy using high tech sonar equipment. Sonar systems emit and receive acoustic signals which can be analyzed to detect underwater objects and map our subsea environments. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Defence and Security Accelerator 1 (DASA), a part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), contracted the IMI and Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd. (SEA) to develop an AI algorithm capable of automatically classifying underwater environments directly from sonar measurements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Researchers at Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences have taken a step closer to solving one of nature's most remarkable mysteries: How do salmon, when it's time to spawn, find their way back from distant ocean locations to the stream where they hatched? </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A new study into the life cycle of salmon, involving magnetic pulses, reinforces one hypothesis: The fish use microscopic crystals of magnetite in their tissue as both a map and compass and navigate via the Earth's magnetic field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Action on wet markets amid COVID-19, Protected shark fins traced to place-of-catch, Arctic will have an iceless summer by 2050, Breakthrough to help save reefs from dying and much more...</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the first time, researchers have traced the origins of shark fins from the retail market in Hong Kong back to the location where the sharks were first caught. This will allow them to identify “high-risk” supply chains for illegal trade and better enforce international trade regulations. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Florida International University's Marine Scientist Demian Chapman led a team based in the United States and Hong Kong — the Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China — to conduct DNA analysis on shark fins from scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini). One of the most common and valuable species in the trade, these sharks face an increasing risk of overexploitation — and possibly extinction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a paper published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have examined traits of marine megafauna species to better understand the potential ecological consequences of their extinction under different future scenarios. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Defined as the largest animals in the oceans, with a body mass that exceeds 45kg, examples include sharks, whales, seals, and sea turtles. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These species serve key roles in ecosystems, including the consumption of large amounts of biomass, transporting nutrients across habitats, connecting ocean ecosystems, and physically modifying habitats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">A growing body of scientific research linking tire wear to microplastic pollution, as well as increased scrutiny from lawmakers in the European Union (EU), has led the $180 billion-a-year tire industry to fight back. The companies have stepped up lobbying with EU lawmakers weighing tougher regulations on tire wear, according to lawmakers and LobbyFacts.eu, a website that tracks EU lobbying data. They are also quickly countering scientific studies on tires and microplastic pollution with ones of their own that say tire particles present no significant risk to humans and the environment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A new method of detecting patches of floating macroplastics—larger than 5 millimeters—in marine environments is presented in Scientific Reports this week. The approach, which uses data from the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellites, is able to distinguish plastics from other materials with 86% accuracy. Lauren Biermann and colleagues identified patches of floating debris from Sentinel-2 data based on their spectral signatures—the wavelengths of visible and infrared light they absorbed and reflected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">French Polynesia is the world's largest shark sanctuary. It is forbidden to possess or transport protected species. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last month, the Chinese ship Shen Gang Shun ran aground on the reef of Arutua atoll and as salvage operations began, the mayor of Arutua and other fishermen discovered in its hold a number of frozen sharks stitched up with cut-off fins inside them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The vice-president Teva Rohfritsch issued a statement a day after the discovery was reported in the local media, saying there had been no poaching in French Polynesian waters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the 2010 BP oil spill, marine scientists have sampled more than 2,500 individual fish representing 91 species from 359 locations across the Gulf of Mexico and found evidence of oil exposure in all of them, including some of the most popular types of seafood. The highest levels were detected in yellowfin tuna, golden tilefish and red drum. The study, just published in “Nature Scientific Reports,” represents the first comprehensive, Gulf-wide survey of oil pollution launched in response to the Deepwater Horizon spill. </span></div>
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