Oceans

The Oceans Wikizine is dedicated to information about the Earth's oceans and the life within them. Articles here explore what the ocean means to people, but also what they mean on their own terms. Oceanographic research, marine biology, ethical seafood and the environmental crisis within the seas are all topics that may be reported upon here. Ocean activism, to deal with issues like overfishing, pollution and the impact of climate change on the oceans, also belong here.

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Salmon Seafood Elitism

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From: irregulartimes.com

Republican insiders and anti-Obama power brokers like Thomas Buffenbarger have spent the last few months trying to make elitist the official word of the 2008 election. What makes someone an elitist, in their opinion? Drinking coffee with milk (a latte), some say. Driving a hybrid car to save money on regular unleaded gasoline that will soon be five dollars per gallon, others say. That doesn’t make sense to me. You want to see what real elitists look like? Consider the people who bought... Read Full Story

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Bush Manipulating Science Again To Kill Right Whales

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From: irregulartimes.com

If you want to know what a truly endangered species is, look at the North Atlantic Right Whale. There are only 350 of the slow-to-breed animals left alive, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded that the death of even one of pregnant North Atlantic Right Whale could make the difference between species survival and species extinction. So, scientists in the federal government were given the task, mandated by the law, of determining how to prevent right... Read Full Story

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Updated Ocean Activist Media

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From: irregulartimes.com

As I explained over the weekend, Social bookmarking and wikimedia have turned me sour. I’m remain open, however, to other sorts of collaborative media experiments online. One such experiment is Zimbio, a place where authors, graphic designers and videographers can contribute their efforts to the construction of online magazines that focus on particular topics. It’s kind of like Squidoo, only more cooperative in structure. A Squidoo lensmaster controls a lens fairly tightly, whereas the who... Read Full Story

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Stop The Slaughter of Bottom Trawling

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From: irregulartimes.com

paths of destruction from bottom trawling for fish visible from space

How do you like to prepare your slimehead? That’s not a nonsense question - there really is a popular food known as slimehead, though you’ve probably heard it under a different name. It’s a fish that fine restaurants prefer to call orange roughy. The orange roughy is a long-lived deep sea fish that is being pulled out of the oceans at a rate that threatens it with extinction because, well, orange roughy does sound delicious, doesn’t it? As long as we’re playing around with food names... Read Full Story

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About the Ocean Wikizine

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An Ocean Wikizine? What's that? Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one focuses on the Earth's Oceans. Discuss ocean issues with fresh voices that can respond in real time. Got an interesting idea, information or activist opportunity about the oceans to share with other members of the Oceans Wikizine? Then get to your writing station and add your own article! Read Full Story

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