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Environment
Hybrid Sharks Show How Nature Adapts to Climate Change
Off the coast of Australia, researchers have identified the first hybrid shark—a genetic mashup of the common black tip and Australian black tip.
Business
The Most Sustainable Sushi Restaurant in America
Our taste for tuna rolls is depleting the oceans, so Bamboo Sushi wants to add new fish to the sea for every one you eat.
Lifestyle
Superb Idea: Pay Fishermen to Catch Trash
A pilot project will begin this month which will pay fishermen to ease up on taxed European fish stocks and catch plastic trash instead.
Environment
Why Californians Will Soon Be Drinking Water from Mexico's Ocean
The desalination of seawater is becoming an inevitability. Californians will soon be drinking Mexico's ocean water.
Environment
Video: Van Jones Speaks at TEDxGPGP on the Economic Injustice of Plastic
Van Jones talks about the injustices—health, economic, environmental—of plastic and our addiction to disposability.
Culture
Image of the Day: "New World Transparent Specimens"
The artist and former fishery student Iro Tomita injects sea creatures with colorful dyes that reveal their complex skeletal systems.
Culture
Intermission: Majestic Views of the World's Largest Aquarium
Stillmotion made this lovely short video of the Georgia Aquarium, the largest in the world.
Environment
Video: A Day in the Life of Mr. O
An abstract short film that narrates the story of the ocean's struggles alongside a collection of understated motion graphics and a jazz score.
Culture
Chasing the Swell: Big Wave Surfing Through the Pacific
A new interactive L.A. Times video feature highlights the terrifying and jaw-dropping world of competitive big wave surfing.
Environment
The First Ever Ocean Census Is Revealed
The 10-year-in-the-making document is available for download, and includes amazing interactive maps about the appalling state of our oceans.
Environment
Take a Trip Down the Gulf Oil Spill, From Surface to Sediment
Despite near-constant denials from BP that there's any oil at all under the surface in the Gulf, actual evidence points to there being plenty,...
Lifestyle
GOOD Instructions: Enjoying the Beach—Without Ruining It
Show the beach some love by remembering these tips to keep it clean and beautiful.
Environment
Electrolux to Make Vacuums from Plastic Ocean Trash
While images of brown streaks of drifting crude oil, beached tar balls, and petroleum-stained pelicans are now conjured with any mention of ocean...
Environment
Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban Falls Through
This is a damn shame: An unprecedented effort to use world trade rules to save a species from rampant overfishing has failed. A proposal to ban...
Environment
Five Gyres: More Ocean Trash Than We Thought
You may have heard of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," the swirling mess of plastic junk that's floating in a gyre in the pacific ocean. Well,...
The Community Board
Scale Matters
The industrialization of our foodsystems is a lose/lose situation for family farmers, the way our food is produced, the way animals are treated...
The Community Board
Oceans Rising Faster Than UN Forecast, Scientists Say
June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Polar ice caps are melting faster and oceans are rising more than the United Nations projected just two years ago, 10...
The Community Board
Stripping the oceans
Everyone needs to read all they can about the Aral Sea and the repercussions of using the water to irrigate fields. It is frightening to see the...
