ocean
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Meet the guy who’s farming the seas to save them
He grew up having squid squirt gun fights. Now he's helping build a new, blue economy.
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In Greenland, abandoned oil drums turn into fleeting art
Julia Edith Rigby was fascinated by trash near a Greenland village -- so she made it into art.
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The ocean is full of treasure — if you know where to look
NOAA scientists value the ocean’s climate-saving benefits — among others — at billions of dollars.
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20,000 leagues under the sea, we’ve made a mess
Industrial chemicals can now be found at the very bottom of the ocean.
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Don’t look now but you’re shedding plastic
At least, your microfiber fleece is.
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Oyster prices could skyrocket if we don’t change our shellfish ways
That's the bottom line according to a scientist at the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the country.
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Watch a clam snarf salt off a table
Here’s a fun pastime, if you’re mildly sociopathic: Put a clam on a table. Sprinkle salt around it. Watch as it investigates with what looks for all the world like a gigantic creepy beige tongue. Yes, we know it’s not a tongue, but you know it looks like it’s sticking out its tongue and very […]
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Will climate change kill off Washington state’s oysters?
After years of speculation and research on the impact of the increasingly acidic seawater in the Pacific Northwest, some farms have actually begun to lose oysters. Can the state of Washington adapt quickly enough to save them?
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XKCD has some amazing facts about oceans for you
Randall Munroe, writer of the web comic XKCD, has put out another one of his dizzyingly meticulous infographics, and this one is about the depths of various bodies of water. No, wait, don’t leave, it’s actually really cool!