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A survey of 200 sites in 20 countries around the world has found that bisphenol A, a synthetic compound that mimics estrogen and is linked to developmental disorders, is ubiquitous in Earth's Oceans... One disturbing possibility is that BPA could bioaccumulate, with animals eating BPA-tainted animals that have eaten BPA-tainted animals, finally reaching high concentrations in top-level ocean predators and the humans who eat them...http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/ocean-bpa/ OCEAN PLASTIC'S IMPACT ON SEA LIFE, YOUR SEAFOOD AND WILD SEA TURTLES http://sco.lt/5LdeMb
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May 23, 2013 Focusing on Wildlife It sounds ludicrous, but it could just be true: scientists say seagulls may be responsible for hundreds of southern right whale moralities off the Argentine coastline. Since 2003, scientists have documented the deaths of 605 southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) near Península Valdés which the whales use as a nursery. Notably, 88 percent of these were newborn calves. The death rate is so high that researchers now fear for the whales’ long-term survival. Scientists now hypothesize that kelp gulls (Larus dominicanus) may be behind the high death rate, since the gulls repeatedly land on southern right whales pecking at them to tear off chunks of skin and blubber for food.,, “The attacks are very painful and cause large, deep lesions, particularly on the backs of young 2-6 week-old calves. ,,, http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/are-seagulls-killing-whales-in-patagonia/
May, 16, 2013 Guardian Environment - Nafeez Ahmed: US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else.. At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to make the most of the emerging economic opportunities in the region" due to the rapid loss of Arctic summer sea ice, and recognising "the need to protect and conserve this unique, valuable, and changing environment."... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/17/obama-arctic-energy-security-climate June 5, 2013 Grist
BP TO PUMP $1 BILLION INTO IT'S ALASKA DRILLING EFFORTS - AFTER TAXES REDUCED ON OIL COMPANIES AS INCENTIVE http://grist.org/news/bp-to-pump-1-billion-into-its-alaska-drilling-efforts/ May 15, 2013 Bloomberg China Granted Access to Arctic Club as Resource Race Heats Up http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-15/world/39264945_1_arctic-council-arctic-circle-observer-status May 15, 2013- Washington Post Superpowers China, India and Korea, Russia and European Union seek to mine Arctic region of its untapped energy http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-15/world/39264945_1_arctic-council-arctic-circle-observer-status DEEP SEA MINING 'GOLD RUSH' MOVES CLOSER, DEVASTATING OCEAN SEABEDS, DESTROYING UNKNOWN ECOSYTEMS http://sco.lt/5tF4s5 September 18, 2012 New York Times
Arctic Resources, Exposed by Warming, Set Off Competition http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/science/earth/arctic-resources-exposed-by-warming-set-off-competition.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly' - Highest Levels in 55 million years - Arctic Ice Free In Two Years http://sco.lt/6KTOpl WILL WE LEARN FROM THE PAST, OR CONTINUE RAVAGING OUR PLANET IN THE NAME OF PROFITS AND POWER? http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us?page=2 July 21, 1012 Guardian Environment
History repeats as Greenland's natural resources promise untold riches http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/31/history-repeats-greenland-natural-resources?INTCMP=SRCH July 5, 2011
The 'cold rush': industrialisation in the Arctic - interactive http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2011/jul/05/arctic-oil-exploitation-map-interactive?INTCMP=SRCH July 3, 2011
Q&A: natural resources exploration in the Arctic July 5, 2011
The 'cold rush': industrialisation in the Arctic - interactive http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2011/jul/05/arctic-oil-exploitation-map-interactive?INTCMP=SRCH April 5, 2013
The race for the Arctic's natural resources http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/apr/05/poles.endangeredhabitats?INTCMP=SRCH November 20, 1010
Europe joins international contest for Arctic's resources http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/21/arctic-energy-eu?INTCMP=SRCH Corporate Governance? What Is Corporate Social Responsibility As Sovereignty Rights Negotiated Away in New Global Trade Pacts http://sco.lt/8FToVl
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June 3, 2013 Planet Earth Online Seals wearing special tags are playing a vital role in collecting temperature and salinity profiles from the polar oceans, delivering insights for weather forecasters, climate scientists and biologists, according to a new review... http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1477&cookieConsent=A CANADA: 70,000 SEAL "CULL" AKA "SLAUGHTER" WILL NOT REVIVE CANADA'S COD STOCKS - SCIENTISTS http://sco.lt/4i4j33 NAMBIA - THE ANNUAL SLAUGHTER OF 90,000 BABY SEALS. ONE OF THE BIGGEST MARINE MAMMAL WILDLIFE CRIMES KNOWN TO MAN http://sco.lt/5LiaVl
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March 20, 2013 CNN Tech CNN) -- Despite most humans' land-centric view, Earth is an ocean planet. The global ocean covers more than two-thirds of our planet's surface and makes life as we know it possible: it produces half of the oxygen we breathe, helps regulate our climate and provides the single largest habitat for life on Earth.,,, http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/18/tech/oceans-woods-hole-oped/ March 27, 2013 CNN
OVERFISHED AND UNDER-PROTECTED: OCEAN ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/world/oceans-overfishing-climate-change/index.html?iid=article_sidebar Mau 28, 2013 The Conversation
WE MUST STOP COMMITTING VALUABLE FISH TO A WATERY GRAVE http://theconversation.com/we-must-stop-committing-valuable-fish-to-a-watery-grave-14302 OVERFISHING Beneath the serene beauty of our ocean waters lurks a nightmare worse than any Jaws movie. You could compare it to alien abduction – massive numbers of fish are being snatched out of the water by high-tech factory fishing trawlers. This nightmare scenario is real, and the impacts on our ocean's ecosystems are extensive. Entire populations of fish are being targeted and destroyed, disrupting the food chain from top to bottom.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/oceans/threats/overfishing/ OVERFISHING AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT https://confluence.furman.edu:8443/display/GGY230F10/Overfishing+and+Its+Effect+on+the+Environment LEARN ABOUT OVERFISHING WITH THIS INTERACTIVE WEB AQUARIUM http://mashable.com/2013/05/17/overfishing-web-acquarium/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss SUPER TRAWLERS http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us?q=super+trawlers BOTTOM-TRAWLING http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us?q=bottom+trawling VIDEO: FORAGE FISH KEY TO A HEALTHY OCEAN FOOD WEB - GOING..GOING... http://sco.lt/5xliU5 KRILL SUPER-TRAWLERS PUSHING PENGUINS TOWARD EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/68bs8X 100 MILLION A YEAR JUST FOR THEIR FINS. SHARK POPULATIONS PLUMET 90% - COULD BE EXTINCT IN A FEW YEARS http://sco.lt/7kHqLZ DEEP SEA MINING 'GOLD RUSH' MOVES CLOSER, DEVASTATING OCEAN SEABED, DESTROYING YET UNKNOWN ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/5tF4s5 ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY; HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS. ARCTIC COULD BE ICE FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6KTOpl
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May 6, 2013 BBC News Science and Environment Carbon dioxide is rapidly altering the chemistry of the Arctic, and the changes will last many thousands of years, a report says.,, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341 WATCH
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THIS IS WHAT AN ICE-FREE ANTARCTICA LOOKS LIKE http://grist.org/climate-energy/this-is-what-an-ice-free-antarctica-looks-like/ May 23, 2013 New York Times
OYSTER SHELLS ARE AN ANTACID TO THE OCEANS http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/science/oyster-shells-are-an-antacid-to-the-oceans.html?_r=0 June 17, 2013 Grist
OYSTER HATCHERIES PUT HEARTBURN MEDS IN THE WATER TO FIGHT OCEAN ACIDIFICATION http://grist.org/list/oyster-hatcheries-put-heartburn-meds-in-the-water-to-fight-ocean-acidification/ May 2, 2013 Guardian Environment
NASA VIDEO: AN ICE FREE ARCTIC IN TWO YEARS: WHITE HOUSE WARNED ON IMMINENT ARCTIC ICE DEATH SPIRAL http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/02/white-house-arctic-ice-death-spiral May 16, 2013 Common Dreams
CANADA VOWS PLUNDER IN THE ARCTIC AS ICE MELTS FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP May 6, 2013
SCIENTIST SOUND ALARM AT ARCTIC OCEAN'S RAPID ACIDIFICATION Now at highest levels in at least 55 million years http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Scientists_sound_alarm_at_Arctic_Oceans_rapid_acidification_999.html May 7, 2013 World Environment News -
ACIDIFICATION: THE LATEST UNKNOWN FOR STRESSED ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM http://planetark.org/wen/68601 May 2, 2013 Yale Environment 360
A KEY EXPERIMENT TO PROBE THE FUTURE OF OUR ACIDIFYING OCEANS http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_key_experiment_to_probe_the_future_of_our_acidifying_oceans/2644/ May 7, 2013 The Independent
THE ACID OCEAN: ARCTIC' OARING CO2 LEAVES FISH AND HUNTERS GASPING FOR LIFE http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-acid-ocean-arctics-soaring-co2-leaves-fish-and-hunters-gasping-for-life-8606805.html Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION - AN INTRODUCTION - THE TWIN SISTER TO CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.awi.de/en/news/focus/2013/ocean_acidification/ What Have We Done??? Polar bears 'may need to be fed by humans to survive' http://sco.lt/8I7Pwv May 7, 2013 Mother Jones
10 KEY FINDINGS FROM A RAPIDLY ACIDIFYING ARCTIC OCEAN http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/05/arctic-ocean-rapidly-getting-more-acidic WE HAVE KNOWN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE FOR 75 YEARS http://grist.org/news/we-have-known-about-climate-change-for-75-years/ April 24, 2013 Arctic News
ANIMATION: ARCTIC SEA ICE MINIMUM VOLUME http://arctic-news.blogspot.dk/2013/04/arctic-sea-ice-animation.html April 8, 2013
CARBON-DIOXIDE LEVELS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST POINT IN AT LEAST 800, 000 YEARS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/carbon-dioxide-levels-are-at-their-highest-point-in-at-least-800000-years/ April 3, 2013 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
WHAT DOES 400 ppm LOOK LIKE? THE KEELING CURVE http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/what-does-this-number-mean/ THE SUICIDAL RACE FOR ARCTIC'S NATURAL RESOURCES - OBAMA'S ARCTIC STRATEGY SETS OFF A CLIMATE TIME BOMB http://sco.lt/85k9th April 2013 398.25ppm
EARTH'S CO2 HOME PAGE http://co2now.org/
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April 28, 2012 IUCN, International Union for Conervation of Nature At least 12% of groupers – globally-important food fish species that live on coral and rocky reefs – face extinction, putting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people around the world at risk, finds a report published today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission’s (IUCN SSC) Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group. The study points to overfishing and the booming international luxury seafood trade as major threats to the survival of some grouper species, and to the livelihoods of those who depend on them for food and income. Its authors call for urgent conservation and management efforts to prevent further declines of these species... http://www.iucn.org/?uNewsID=12869
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January 22, 2013 Global Possibilities There are massively disturbing ethical, environmental, and health concerns that make the introduction of Frankenfish highly controversial... Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year. On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environmental assessment that found “no significant impact” from the controversial AquaBounty AquaAdvantage transgenic salmon.,, What is the rationale behind genetically engineered salmon? Why have scientists spliced genes from an eel-like creature called the ocean pout into the genome of the Atlantic salmon? These genes crank out growth hormone year-round, resulting in a fish that grows faster, cutting the time to reach market weight almost in half. This could mean cost savings for fish farmers, leading to higher profits for the salmon farming industry and (they promise) lower prices for consumers. But there are massively disturbing ethical, environmental, and health concerns that make the introduction of Frankenfish highly controversial... http://www.globalpossibilities.org/is-genetically-engineered-salmon-safe/ FATALLY FLAWED" FDA ASSESSMENT TO UNLEASH GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SALMON ONTO YOUR DINNER PLATE: NO REGULATION, NO OVERSIGHT, NO LABELLING http://sco.lt/7Ksakj MAJOR US FOOD RETAILERS TO SHUN GENETICALLY MODIFIED, PATENTED, FACTORY FARMED, ENLAVE SEAFOOD http://sco.lt/4qgoDZ 28 March, 2013 - Nation of Change
BIO-DEMOCRACY OR CORPORATOCRACY: THE FOOD FIGHT OF OUR LIVES http://www.nationofchange.org/biodemocracy-or-corporatocracy-food-fight-our-lives-1364483920 ABNORMAL GROWTH: UNLEASHING GENETICALLY SALMON ONTO YOUR DINNER PLATE = NO REGULATIONS, NO OVERSIGHT - "FATALLY FLAWED" FDA ASSESSMENT http://sco.lt/8ZDraz March 28, 2013 VIDEO REPORT RT News
' FRANKENFISH' HEADING TO YOUR DINNER PLATE AS OBAMA SIGNS 'MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao7ECASd5pc 20 March, 2013 - The Guardian Environment MAJOR US SUPERMARKETS TO BOYCOTT GM SALMON - FIRST OF 30 OTHER GENETICALLY ALTERED SPECIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT The GM salmon is the first in some 30 other species of genetically engineered fish under development, including tilapia. Researchers are also working to bring GM cows, chickens and pigs to market.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/20/major-us-supermarkets-boycott-gm-salmon OUR 21st CENTURY FACTORY OF LIFE - RE-ENGINEERING, PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF -- IS BIOTECH OUT OF CONTROL http://sco.lt/4thM6j DO WE NEED A GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS? http://sco.lt/6jmb1l DID YOU KNOW? GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://sco.lt/7oVxQH BIOTECH AGRICHEMICAL INDUSTRY GETS IMMUNITY FROM US CONGRESS, OBAMA - RISES ABOVE COURTS http://sco.lt/8edR3Z
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