sharks
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Flooded Queensland city may now be living every week like it's Shark Week
Artist’s conception Writing about the Queensland floods, Grist cities editor Sarah Goodyear wrote: “If you were to anthropomorphize the flood, you might say it is taking a perverse pleasure in pointing out just where the shiny, mighty city is weakest.” Little did we expect that it would start finding cities’ weakest points AND PUTTING SHARKS […]
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Goldman Prize winner says sharks still in trouble
Costa Rica is a leading exporter of shark fins for fin soup trade. Fighting this is Randall Arauz. I spoke with the Goldman Environmental Prize winner
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Waiter, there's some-fin in my soup [VIDEO]
If you give a flip about what flops across your plate -- and want to avoid the dinner faux pas of the lady in this video -- then now is a great time to take some advice from the TV show 30 Rock and "live every week like it's Shark Week."
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Ten green stories you probably missed this week
The big story of the week, of course, is that BP, after almost three miserable months, may have finally stopped its Gulf gusher. (Emphasis on “may.”) But chances are you missed these greener tales — from the beauty of pond scum to the bendable bike to the regenerative power of beer. Flasks of algae waiting […]
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It’s time to end the practice of shark finning
This post is co-authored with Discovery Channel GM & President John Ford. —– Photo: Willy VolkEvery half-second a shark is killed for its fins, so in the time it takes you to read this post, hundreds of sharks will die. “Finning,” as the practice is known, is decimating shark populations world-wide. Every year up to […]
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Why it will be very hard to save sharks from extinction
Here’s a video from a restaurant in Hong Kong which illustrates how much trouble the world’s sharks are in. If this woman’s reaction to the kitchen being ‘all out’ of shark fin soup is representative of the expectations of people in just Hong Kong, then sharks are in for a lot more senseless finning in […]