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Go Navy! Captain rescued from Somali pirates

Embedded video from &amp;lt;a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”&amp;gt;CNN Video&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; Somalian pirates received payback for their hostilities on Easter Sunday. Members of the U.S. Navy shot and killed…

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Let The Whales Die

Dr. M April 7, 2009 beachings conservation kidney failure mammals NGO RSPCA sea shepard spca stranding United Kingdom whales Zoological Society of London

No matter what meaning I intend with the title, it has more than likely made you uncomfortable. It makes me uncomfortable to write it. I…

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World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video

Peter Etnoyer April 6, 2009 deep sea deep-sea coral gerardia gold coral Honduras Karl Stanley stanley submarines submarine

Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…

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Lubchenco’s 1st Day at NOAA

Kevin Zelnio April 3, 2009 Jane Lubchenco NOAA Rats Scott Smullen The Washington Post

Was marked by a guest appearance… [From The Washington Post] “She has a fine corner office at 15th and Constitution — nothing fancy, but excellent…

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Can we get excited now?

Peter Etnoyer March 31, 2009 bailout Barack Obama fishing NOAA ocean law ocean management Omnibus Public Land Management Act stimulus

President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 into law yesterday, authorizing sustained funding for ocean exploration, mapping, coastal and ocean…

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Trophy fish, back in the day

Peter Etnoyer March 29, 2009 Ernest Hemmingway Key West Key West Florida Loren McClenachen Miller-McCune Center recreational fishing trophy fish United States

What better way to get at the question of recreational fishing impacts to ocean wildlife than to study historical pictures of the day’s catch on…

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Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft

Peter Etnoyer March 27, 2009 BBC digital map Ethiopia Google google earth Google Inc.Google Ocean google vs microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation NavTeq video map

A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below.…

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Offshore Luxury Condos

Dr. M March 26, 2009 architecture condo Dubai Gulf of Mexico hotel luxury Morris Architects offshore oil rigs oil derricks prefab

Thousands of offshore oil rigs dot the ocean with nearly 4,000 in the Gulf of Mexico ready to be decommissioned. What do we with all…

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One step closer to stimulus

Peter Etnoyer March 26, 2009 Coastal and Ocean Observation Act HR 146 NOAA ocean acidification ocean science

Sheril Kirshenbaum of the new Intersection blog at Discover alerts us that the House passed HR 146 yesterday, so the big ocean bill is one…

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Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming

Dr. M March 24, 2009 Alfred Wegener Institute algae copepod Environmental Issues global warming greenhouse gas iron iron fertilization phytoplankton plankton Southern Ocean zooplankton

BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in…