Seabirds are today's canaries in the coal mine – and they're sending us an urgent message

Seabirds are today's canaries in the coal mine – and they're sending us an urgent message

Just as caged canaries once warned coal miners of the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, free-flying

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  495 Hits

Turkey struck by ‘sea snot’ because of global heating

Turkey struck by ‘sea snot’ because of global heating

When seen from above, it looks like a brush of beige swirled across the dark blue waters of the Sea

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  506 Hits

‘Scuba-diving’ lizards breathe underwater by attaching air bubbles to their snouts

You’re having a bubble! Biologists at Binghamton in the US and the University of Toronto in Canada h

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  507 Hits

The ticking environmental time bombs lying on Europe's seafloor

The ticking environmental time bombs lying on Europe's seafloor

For the police divers who work for the Schleswig-Holstein Bomb disposal unit in Kiel, their daily jo

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  616 Hits

Greenland's Melting Glaciers Are Polluting Coasts With Shocking Amounts of Mercury

Greenland's Melting Glaciers Are Polluting Coasts With Shocking Amounts of Mercury

ENVIRONMENT Greenland's melting ice sheet is unleashing an astonishing amount of mercury into the na

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  595 Hits

95% of Bull Kelp Forests Have Vanished From 200-Mile Stretch of California Coast

A lone blue rockfish swims past the graceful sweep of the blades of a bull kelp plant. The large air

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  572 Hits

Scientists turn cabbage into construction material stronger than concrete

Scientists turn cabbage into construction material stronger than concrete

Researchers at the University of Tokyo pressed cabbage, fruit peels and other food scraps into a str

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  613 Hits

S.C. horseshoe crab harvest for pharma can proceed - 4th Circuit

S.C. horseshoe crab harvest for pharma can proceed - 4th Circuit

Atlantic horseshoe crabs burrow in the sand near Little Creek, Delaware, May 20, 2008. TREUTERS/Mike

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  625 Hits

Excess nitrogen has made sargassum the world's largest harmful algal bloom

Excess nitrogen has made sargassum the world's largest harmful algal bloom

May 24 (UPI) -- Sargassum provides vital nursery habitat for crabs, fish, sea turtles and other mari

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  564 Hits

Biodiversity may take millions of years to recover from human impacts

Biodiversity may take millions of years to recover from human impacts

View 1 Image It could take Earth’s freshwater ecosystems millions of years to recover from the damag

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  588 Hits

Bottlenose Dolphin Mom Adopts Pilot Whale Calf in New Zealand

Bottlenose Dolphin Mom Adopts Pilot Whale Calf in New Zealand

New Zealand's Far Out Ocean Research Collective spotted a bottlenose dolphin caring for a young pilo

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  565 Hits

Dolphin found dead with woman’s thong wrapped around flipper

Dolphin found dead with woman’s thong wrapped around flipper

A THONG became so tightly wrapped around a dolphin's flipper that it almost cut to the bone and cont

...
Continue reading

Copyright

© Flipboard and it's respective authors

  582 Hits