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Worlds First Plastic Fishing Company Wants to Rid the Oceans of Plastic Pollution
2016-04-01 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The premise behind the Amsterdam-based venture Plastic Whale is beautifully simple. First, the company fishes out plastic bottles and other debris from the city`s numerous canals. Second, when enough bottles are collected, the plastic is transformed into material to make a boat. Third, the new boat is used to fish for more plastic bottles--to make more boats. Genius. The goal of Plastic Whale--which describes itself as the world`s first plastic fishing company--is to rid the world`s waters of...
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Coral Reefs Bounce Back Despite Warming Of Oceans
2016-03-26 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Coral reefs have managed to bounce back, despite being under constant threat of extinction. However, marine scientists caution these fragile ecosystems are still being threatened by global warming, pollution and human activity. The discovery of a large number of coral reefs in excellent health has been quite a joyous occasion for the researchers who routinely deal with ominous news like mass die-offs, worldwide bleaching events, oil spills, and such other calamities which have been pushing the...
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Leonardo DiCaprio gives $1 million to help island nation protect its oceans
2016-03-19 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: From Shutter Island to Manatee Island, Leonardo DiCaprio keeps winning our hearts - and our climate-inclined minds. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation recently granted $1 million to help the Seychelles islands protect their ocean territory - which makes up 99 percent of the country. It`s part of a huge, unprecedented swap between the Pacific Island nation and foreign investor groups. The gist of the deal: The country of 115 tiny islands commits to protecting 154,000 square miles of its surrounding...
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Novel ocean-current turbine design: Taming oceans for 24/7 power
2016-03-07 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Fossil fuels propelled the Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological advances. However, our future cannot be based on them, if only because they are a finite resource; and we are very close to exhausting them. Solar and wind power is often seen as the main locomotive of the energy revolution. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that solar panels and wind turbines alone cannot provide all the energy we need, especially considering that energy consumption around the world is steadily...
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Disease, warming oceans, rock lobster and sea star populations
2016-02-16 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Two new Cornell University studies show how diverse marine organisms are susceptible to diseases made worse by warming oceans. The first study warns that warm sea temperatures in 2015 may increase the levels of epizootic shell disease in American lobster in the northern Gulf of Maine in 2016. The second provides the first evidence linking warmer ocean temperatures with a West Coast epidemic of sea star wasting disease that has infected more than 20 species and devastated populations since 2013....
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