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Twitter: Ocean ...see also more feeds at bottom of this page
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Oceana: Haha aww!! RT @dianen56: #funny This is why the dolphins don’t play with the narwhals. | http://t.co/9EaLOOK99f
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Ocean Conservancy: A stunning ocean photo! Surgeon fish school swimming in Saint Leu. via @ScienceBlogs http://t.co/UFeOQwdGca
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Oceana: RT @1world1ocean: "Hey Mate, I'm on a beach!" (PHOTO via #reddit.) http://t.co/rCVtVwL43e
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Ocean Conservancy: Humans kill 100,000,000 sharks yearly. Still scared of sharks? Listen to @PCousteau on the truth behind attacks. http://t.co/9BAa2zuMdE
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Oceana: Air New Zealand becomes latest airline to stop flying shipments of shark fins to Hong Kong: http://t.co/qIX9EYcwHi @sharkfinning
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Fixing the Problem
- 1. Make Your Own Online Petition For Free!!
- Best Way to Connect to Congress and Express Your Views about Ocean Issues
- Best Way to Connect to Congress and Express Your Views about Ocean Issues (DEMO)
- Bottom Trawling UN Policy/Regulation
- Coastal Countries Step Up for Sharks
- Coastal States Organization
- Eco-Friendly Fish Choice Guides
- EPA Blog on Environmental Justice
- Geoengineering the Climate (The Royal Society – Science Policy)
- Gigantic Plastic Garbage Patches in the Ocean: How to Help
- How to Write to Congress
- Important Elements to Sustainable Fishing
- List of Social Action Websites
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
- MPAs Marine Protected Areas
- National Ocean Policy 2011
- New Earth Archive
- Ocean Champions
- Open Congress
- Possible End of Overfishing in US Coastal Waters
- Principles for Successful Community Organizing
- Project AWARE
- Saving Sharks – Get Involved!
- Saving Sharks – Get Involved!
- Search for Bills Pending in Congress
- Shark Research Institute
- Sustainability Leadership at US Universities
- Sustainable Fish Finder
- The Billfish Foundation
- Things You Can Do to Help the Ocean
- US Ocean Policy
- We The People Program at the White House!!!
It's My Ocean
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Environmental Ethics – Some History
- Environmental Ethics Overview
- Kids Sue Government under the Public Trust Doctrine
- Pubic Trust Doctrine – NOAA Tutorial
- Public Trust Doctrine from Wikipedia
- Public Trust Doctrine in Coastal Management
- Public Trust Doctrine: Legal Scholarship
- regarding natural ecosystems as capital assets
- White House National Ocean Council Blog
Global Warming
- Acidification Oceanography Journal Special Issue
- Carbon Emission Permit Sale
- Climate Change Tool for Educators – CAMEL
- Climate Change: The Next Generation – Great Blog!
- Climate Data – Recent Records of Sato & Hansen
- Copenhagen Diagnosis- Climate Science
- Coral Reefs – An Interview with Amy Knowlton
- Excellent Teaching Resources on Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation
- Farm Subsidies and Global Warming
- Geoengineering the Climate (The Royal Society – Science Policy)
- GFDL Climate Science Blog
- Global Warming Forcings Other than CO2
- How carbon dioxide melted the world
- How Hard Will It Really Be To Move Away from Fissile Carbon Energy Sources?
- Increasing Subtropical Ocean Deserts
- IPCC Assessment 4 Reports
- Links to the Scientific Literature Regarding Ocean Conservation
- Melting Polar Ice (New York TImes Article)
- NASA Images of Sea Ice Changes in Arctic
- New York TImes Science Pages
- Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidification Has Arrived
- NSF on Climate Change
- Ocean Acidification
- Real Climate Blog
- Role of the Ocean in Abrupt Climate Change
- Role of the Ocean in Climate Change
- Science Journal Articles on Climate Change
- Sea Level RIse of 70 feet with a 2 C Warming
- Senator Kerry: On Eve of Rio+20, An Honest Assessment of Climate Change Challenge
- Skeptical Science
- Socio-Economic Cost of Ocean Acidifiction
- State of the Ocean
- State of the Ocean 2011
- Strong US Public Support for CO2 Regulation and Carbon Tax
- The Anthropocene
- Why Global- Warming Skeptics are Wrong
Marine Pollution
- BP Oil Spill – Articles and Blogs from the Journal Nature
- BP Oil Spill – Articles in the Journal Science
- BP Oil Spill – Excellent Google Earth Interactive Map
- BP Oil Spill – Long Term Impacts
- BP Oil Spill – NOAA Updates on the Containment
- BP Oil Spill – Peer Reviews Papers on the Oil Spill
- BP Oil Spill: What eventually happened to all of the oil?
- BP Spill – Long Term Impacts
- Coastal Pollution Overview
- Dead Zones in Coastal Bottom Waters
- Farm Subsidies and Global Warming
- Farm Subsidies Lead to Greater Coastal Pollution
- Global Fertilizer Use
- Global Nitrogen Policy
- Links to the Scientific Literature Regarding Ocean Conservation
- List of fish that are unsafe to eat because of heavy metals
- Mercury in Tuna Sushi
- NYT Article on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
- Oil and Fish Don't Mix
- Oil Pollution History
- Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
- Reactive Nitrogen Pollution
- regarding natural ecosystems as capital assets
- Sewage Treatment Infrastructure Decline
- Toxic Waters
- Whales and Noise Pollution Blog
fishing impacts
- 4 Dirty Little Secrets About Canned Tuna
- Aquacalypse Now
- Bottom Trawling UN Policy/Regulation
- Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning News (NOAA)
- Coastal Countries Step Up for Sharks
- Conservation International – Sustainable Fisheries
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Death at Sea World – Captive Orca Treatment
- Eco-Friendly Fish Choice Guides
- Eco-Friendly SeaFood Restaurant Guide
- Fish Farming Facts
- Fish Oil is Not Eco-Friendly
- Important Elements to Sustainable Fishing
- International Fisheries Management
- Lost Lobster Gear
- Narrated Photo Essay
- New UN Treaty
- New York Time Archive on Commercial Fishing Articles
- Possible End of Overfishing in US Coastal Waters
- Saving Sharks – Get Involved!
- Shark Whisperer
- State of the Ocean
- State of the Ocean 2011
- The Most Important Fish In the World
- US Ocean Policy Overview
Coral Reef Destruction
Sustainable Future
- 1. Make Your Own Online Petition For Free!!
- American Public Media's Sustainability Page
- Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
- Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (BLOG)
- Back to the Start (Cold Play / Willy Nelson Music Video)
- Biodiversity and Sustainability – A Big-Big Problem Headed in the Wrong Direction
- Building a Green Economy by Paul Krugman
- Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning News (NOAA)
- Conservation International – Sustainable Fisheries
- Conservation Psychology
- Cornell moves beyond coal with opening of new power plant
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecosystem Services
- Encyclopedia of the Earth
- Geoengineering the Climate (The Royal Society – Science Policy)
- How Fast Are We Consuming the Earth?
- How Have Ecosystems Changed?
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
- Millennium Assessment Reports
- National Geographic: Why Oceans Matter
- New Earth Archive
- Pew Oceans Commission
- Really Good Green News Source
- Senator Kerry: On Eve of Rio+20, An Honest Assessment of Climate Change Challenge
- State of the Ocean
- State of the Ocean 2011
- Sustainability Leadership at US Universities
- Sustainable Fish Finder
- TED Conference Video on Sustainability
- Tragedy of the Commons: Science Magazine Archive
- UN 3rd Global Biodiversity Report
- UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report 2007 (PDF)
- UN Sustainable Development Documents
- UNEP Green Economy Blue Ocean
- US Ocean Policy Overview
- Visions of a Sustainable Future
- White House National Ocean Council Blog
- World Resources Institute
Generally Positive News
- Good news on preventing bottom trawling
- National Ocean Policy 2011
- NOAA's "Thank You Ocean" Program
- Obama Administration's Oceans Policy Plan
- Obama Administration's Oceans Policy Plan in the News
- Ocean Hope at Mission Blue
- President Bush Declares Vast Region on the Tropical Pacific A Marine Conservation Area
- President Obama's Executive Order Regarding a New Ocean Policy
- UN Biodiversity Summit 2010 Makes Progress
Beauty
- Beautiful Seabirds!!!
- Beautiful Videos from the European Space Agency (ESA)
- Census of Marine Life Photos
- Deep Sea Volcanic Eruption
- Dolphin Intelligence
- Drew Harvell's Friday Harbor Blog
- Movie Trailer for "Oceans"
- National Geographic Oceans Website
- National Geographic Photo Contest
- Nice El Nino Site
- NOAA Mission Blog
- NOAA Ocean Data Viewer – Very Cool!
- Octopus' Use of "Tools"
- Pretty Cool Sea Creature Pics
- Pristine Cuban Coral Reefs
- Shark Whisperer
- Sharks : More links to information than you can imagine
- Smithsonian Museum's Oceans Pages
- The Secret Life of Plankton
fishing impacts Archive
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Aquaculture and Its Environmental Effects
Essentially fish and shellfish farming, the aquaculture industry has been thriving, but it is very misunderstood by the public. To help satisfy the growing population’s growing hunger, the aquaculture industry has been…
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Factory Ships and Overfishing
At the start of my lecture on overfishing in the oceanography class that I teach, I emphasize that the good old days of small “mom and pop” family fishing efforts has given…
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Story of the Bluefin Tuna – Nice Video
I came across this nice video HERE. It was produced by How to Save the Bluefin. It touches on almost all the main points I mention in my oceanography class: 1) Huge…
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The Scandal Continues – CITES decides NOT to ban the trade in Bluefin Tuna.
As Northern Bluefin Tuna near extinction, the never ending greed of a few continues to take YOUR tuna. The UN’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted yesterday to not list Northern Bluefin Tuna
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Why You Should Avoid Eating Shrimp
Eating shrimp (most especially the large tiger shrimp/prawn variety) is almost always a bad idea for a couple of reasons. One, it is bad for your health if the shrimp are farmed…
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The Issue of Overfishing
The issue of overfishing is right up there with global warming as a twin threat to the ocean. Many of the students in my oceanography class are shocked when they find out just how overfished the oceans are today
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The Beauty of Sharks
Alyssa was a student in the Cornell Oceanography class last semester. She has had a strong affection for sharks since she was a little girl.
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Protesters and Whalers Collide in Antarctica
Pretty dramatic news footage of whale protester boat that was hit by a Japanese whaling vessel. For additional information: click here Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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Skipjack Tuna Fishing Video
Pretty disturbing (to me anyway) YouTube video from the BBC of skipjack tuna being fished… Did you like this? Share it:Tweet