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Brainless Jellyfish Sleep Too

September 21, 2017 admin ANIMALS, brains, Caltech, discoveries, environment, invertebrates, jellies, jellyfish, marine life, OCEAN, Read, sea creatures

Credit to Author: Samantha Cole| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0000

It’s the first-ever example of sleep in animals without a brain.

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Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100

September 20, 2017 admin Carbon +, carbon cycle, Climate Change, Conservation, discoveries, environment, extinction, Geoengineering, GLOBAL WARMING, mass extinction, ocean acidification, Pollution, Read

Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:06:29 +0000

If we put another 310 gigatons of carbon into the ocean by 2100, which we’re well on track to do, we enter “unknown territory.”

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We’re Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry

September 14, 2017 admin clothes, discoveries, environment, fish, Great Lakes, laundry, marine life, microbeads, microplastics, plastic, Pollution, polygone, Read, water

Credit to Author: James Jackson| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:12:27 +0000

A startup is developing a reusable sheet that sucks microplastics from our laundry machines, so they don’t end up in the water supply.

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Nearly Half of Canada’s Monitored Wildlife Populations Are In Decline

September 13, 2017 admin ANIMALS, Birds, Canada, discoveries, endangered species, environment, fish, Fishing, Living Planet Report, nature, Read, species at risk act, vertebrates, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund, wwf

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 01:00:00 +0000

They include woodland caribou, lake whitefish, and swift fox.

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TV Weathercasters Are Being Recruited to Convince People Climate Change Is Real

September 8, 2017 admin broadcasting, Climate Change, climate matters, environment, extreme weather, GLOBAL WARMING, Hurricane Harvey, hurricanes, meteorologists, Read, Reddit, storms, tv news, Weather, weathercasters

Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:43:18 +0000

Weathercasters’ on-air reporting about climate change increased over 1,200 percent between 2013 and 2016.

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The Most Realistic Antarctic Warming Experiment to Date Went Worse Than Expected

August 31, 2017 admin Climate Change, environment, food chain, oceans, water

Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000

By studying the impact on microscopic, shallow water organisms, researchers got a glimpse of the impact of warming seas.

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Louisiana’s Plan to Punch a Hole in the Mississippi River

August 29, 2017 admin 2017 coastal master plan, dead zone, environment, erosion, Fishing, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mid-Barataria diversion project, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Read, sediment, subsidence, US geological survey, wetlands

Credit to Author: Rosemary Westwood| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0000

To save coastline, the state is attempting the “most important environmental construction project in US history.”

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Hunt Moose to Save Caribou That Are Killed By Wolves, Scientists Say

August 29, 2017 admin Alberta, Canada, caribou, Climate Change, discoveries, environment, hunting, moose, nature, Read, wolf cull, WOLVES

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Canada’s caribou are under threat.