oceans
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Fish are great at fighting climate change. Too bad we’re eating them all.
Fish are superheroes when it comes to sequestering carbon and slowing global warming -- but overfishing and bycatch are killing these deep-sea ecosystems.
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Six ways climate change is screwing with your seafood (and what to do about it)
Think of this as a study guide for your climate-change-and-seafood pop quiz.
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Is there a sustainable future for America’s most popular seafood?
The shrimp farming industry gets a bad rap, but it might be greener than you think -- and we eat enough of the stuff that it's worth getting right.
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This artist builds coral reefs by hand
Courtney Mattison used her marine biology background to build giant, ceramic art installations that highlight the beauty and fragility of reefs as climate change takes its toll.
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A surprisingly pleasant song about plastic pollution
Maybe you've never thrown a plastic bottle at a sea otter before, but chances are you're still responsible for ocean pollution. Now you can hum this catchy tune to remind yourself!
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Fearless teenage fish don’t run from climate change, death
These acid-addled fish just want to watch the world burn.
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How can we deal with ocean acidification? Step one: Study it.
A group of government agencies have released a strategic research plan for ocean acidification. Stop yawning, this is important!
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Here’s a shorebird’s-eye view of the Galveston oil spill
No cooing with disinterested horror over aerial shots of rainbow slicks over water this time -- pull on a pair of waders and slosh through the muck at sea level.
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“More fish in the sea” is not a reason to keep overfishing
A new study suggests we've been underestimating the amount of fish in the oceans by a factor of 10 -- but that doesn't mean we get to drive bluefin tuna to extinction.
