Oceans

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...

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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Written by marysoderstrom on
Back from Portugal to find the garden overgrown and mass of news to digest. While in Lisbon I wa5ched far more television than I do here, largely to work on my Portuguese comprehension. Canada made the news a couple of times—a second death due to AH1N1, the Stanley Cup finals (only on BBC sports,) Alice Munro winning the International Man Booker, J’ai tué ma mère running away at Cannes and the CAW making more concessions to GM. Other big stories here didn’t rate a mention there. It’s going to take me a while to digest what’s happened, to say nothing about making sense of ... Read Full Story
Written by omniswami on
Here's a photo taken near Naples, Florida. There were literally piles of shells washed up on the beach. I thought this photo made for a pretty decent free desktop wallpaper. Click on the image to get the full resolution and save it as your background. Enjoy :)OmniSwami.com - Tomorrow the truth will be revealed... Read Full Story
Written by wilcoxclynn on
Picture this: It's Monday morning, and you wake up groggy to your alarm because the incessant traffic and blaring of truck horns from the local highway kept you from getting a good nights' sleep. You'd go back to sleep, but your spouse is already up watching TV and that annoying anchor for the 6 AM news is peppily rambling about how great his week abroad in Hawaii was - like an image of him in a speedo is what you need in your head first thing. You hop in the shower, if only to drown out the television, and try and remember what exactly ... Read Full Story
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If you've been reading the news, people are reacting strongly to a new study which reported ocean acidification due to CO2 output is occurring at a faster rate than expected. But what is the deal with acidification, anyway? The worst part of a change in ocean pH is that it shifts the balance of carbonate ions. As the pH of the oceans drops, it is harder for animals to fix calcium carbonate. Therefore, with oceans acidifying at an alarming rate, the threat to calcified organisms is also rising faster than previously thought - and 2005 estimates were bad enough. Luckily, some calcifying organisms have ... Read Full Story
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There are certain rules that one must abide when working at sea, especially in the Southern Ocean with water temperatures not quite in the summer Jamaican vacation range. Anyone with a captain's license would know that. ... We hope you all will have a fun, safe marine conservation expedition this Antarctic summer season! And remember, if you follow our 7 Simple Rules, you might actually save a whale! (Disclaimer: Saving whales does not stop...  
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Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5000 meters ( ~3 ... the submerged mountains rising from the seafloor, the muddy floor of ocean plains, and the vents, seeps, whale falls and chemically-driven ecosystems found on the margins of mid-ocean ridges and in...  
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The scans are providing detailed three-dimensional replicas of a whale's hearing anatomy using a breakthrough method developed by Dr. Ted Cranford, a marine biologist sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Chief of Naval .... Other Biology News:Cultural transmission in bats: When listening for dinner, bats learn from their neighbors 2Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows...  
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These deep-sea corals, which include species of Paragorgia, Lophelia, and Primnoa, feed on microorganisms and “marine snow,” particulate organic matter that drifts down through the layers of ocean water and provides an important food source for bottom-dwellers. ... Thus, the coming years of marine research promise to continue to be not only awe-inspiring and but also fundamental to expanding our knowledge of the great vastness of the world's...  
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