Conservation & Environment

My Wish for World Ocean Day

Dr. M June 8, 2009 Coral Reef Alliance World Ocean Day

I wish everyone would donate $10 to their favorite marine conservation organization. NGO’s rely on small donations, not large donations, to keep their organizations running…

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Finding Coral in Canada, World Ocean Day

Hello, I’m Michael, I’ll be the Deep Sea News “field correspondent” for the Finding Coral Expedition with Living Ocean Society. We launch on World’s Ocean…

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TGIF: World’s Deepest Pool

Peter Etnoyer June 5, 2009 Barack Obama Belgium Brussels Brussels-Capital Region deepest pool Europe John Beernaerts scuba scuba diving

Why does Europe get all the cool stuff, while here in America we can only brag about the world’s largest McDonald’s? Oh, and the world’s…

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World champion leatherback wins Iron Turtle award

Peter Etnoyer May 5, 2009 Bryan Wallace Bullis Charter School conservation international Eric Shanteau Great Turtle Race leatherback Pearl Jam Sara Campbell sea turtle

Deep Sea News is proud to present the Iron Turtle award in partnership with Conservation International and National Geographic. The official press release follows. Academic…

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Iron Turtle victory for Cali

Peter Etnoyer May 5, 2009 Bullis Charter School Great Turtle Race leatherback turtle

The winner in the Great Turtle Race 2009 Iron Turtle Competition is Cali, a leatherback turtle from Bullis Charter School in Palo Alto, California. The…

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Bionic Penguins Will Wipe Out The Penguin Race

Kevin Zelnio April 30, 2009 Festo penguin robot The Daily Mail

‘Nature demonstrates how maximum performance can be achieved with minimum energy consumption,’ a Festo spokesman said. DON’T DO IT!!!! We’ve all seen Terminator! We know…

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Enormous sea turtle lays 95 eggs after ocean race

Peter Etnoyer April 29, 2009 Canada Caribbean French Guiana Georges - Great Turtle Great Turtle Race Jean-Yves Georges leatherback Nova Scotia Pearl Jam sea turtle Wawa Bear

Pearl Jam’s “Backspacer” is declared the victor in the Great Turtle Race, the first leatherback sea turtle to arrive in the Caribbean Sea from foraging…

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UK Launches Bold Ocean Acidification Research Program

Kevin Zelnio April 28, 2009 Antarctica Arctic Atlantic BBC carbon dioxide Funding ocean acidification United Kingdom

Way to go brits! The BBC reports: “The UK government has launched an £11m ($16m) five-year research programme into ocean acidification… The study will focus…

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