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Let The Whales Die

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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Earth Hour goes darkly this Saturday night

Peter Etnoyer March 23, 2009 conservation earth hour energy marine conservation

The WWF sponsored Earth Hour event calls on you to shut the lights for an hour this Saturday at 8:30 pm local time. This is…

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Warfare Ecology

Dr. M March 12, 2009 anthropogenic biological and chemical weapons conservation deep sea ecologist economics energy energy flows Environmental Issues Eugene Odum famous ecologist marine conservation Organisms policy Savannah River Plant tactical oil spills war warfare

Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors…

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Is Sea Sheppard Good or Bad for Sharks?

Kevin Zelnio March 2, 2009 conservation Finning Sea Sheppard shark Southern Fried Science

David from Southern Fried Science has a good post continuing the discussion started by Dr. M here on Deep Sea News. While Dr. M focused…

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Sea Shepard: Only Making Matters Worse

Dr. M February 27, 2009 conservation law marine conservation ocean ramming sea shepard vessels video whale

In looking over Swimming With Sharks, I came across this video of Sea Shepard ramming a Japanese whaling ship. Appalled is the best word I…

Cephalopods Reviews Scientist!

Martin Wells

Dr. M February 26, 2009 Books Cambridge Cephalopod conservation limpets marine biology

It is with great sadness that I post this from the Other 95%… I received the sad news today that Martin Wells, imminent biologist, one…

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Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought

Dr. M February 19, 2009 conservation Coral Invertebrate Open Access plos one Seamount sponge

About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…

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Excuse me sir there is a call

Dr. M February 18, 2009 conservation finances mining money Nautilus PNG recession

Nautilus CEO: Hello Official Representative of Teck Cominco Limited: This is —-, I have some good news and some bad news. CEO: Good news first…

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Sailor saves a bumblebee

Peter Etnoyer September 4, 2008 bumblebee conservation Environmental Sciences firefly

When a sailor misses a chance to go to sea, he tends to wander around his garden, paying special attention to the clouds and the weather, as if he were walking the deck in the sea air. He circles his home like it were a shipyard, looking for repairs.

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Making that deep-sea connection to mangroves

Peter Etnoyer August 5, 2008 conservation manglares mangroves Mexico ocean revolution sea turtle seafood

Think of an aquatic habitat as far away from the deep-sea as you can get without coming up on land, and we will find a connection to the deep-sea. River rock = settlement substrate. Kelp forest = urchin food. Beaches = spawning grounds for tuna food. Mangroves = seafood … food. Bumper stickers in the Carolinas say it best – “no wetlands, no seafood.”