Topic: Marine Ecology and Conservation
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In Pictures: Cancun climate talks
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/04
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day 09/23
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 09/07
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Gallery: Dead zones
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How a humongous garbage patch in the Pacific breeds new bugs (+video)
The great Pacific garbage patch has created a new breeding ground for a marine insect, which in turn is changing Pacific ecosystems.
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Scientists found hammerhead sharks have twin cousin
The newly found scalloped hammerhead shark faces similar existential threats as its look-alike fishy cousin.
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Debris from tsunami to reach West Coast, join Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch will soon include debris from the Japanese tsunami, while one million to 2 million tons of lumber, construction material, refrigerators, TVs, fishing boats and other fragments from Japanese coastal towns make their way across the Pacific.
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Green Economics
The real cost of climate change
There is a lot of money to be had in innovating new ways to adapt to climate change
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Reader recommendation: The View From Lazy Point
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Fishing ban brings species back to Mexico park. But can it rebuild a fishery?
A study finds that a fishing ban at a Mexican marine park – with critical help from local residents – has successfully restored the fish population. Whether it's enough to restore the industry is not clear.
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Disgusting sea creature threatened with extinction
Conservationists say that the hagfish, a loathsome undersea scavenger whose appearance and behavior are too revolting for most people even to contemplate, is on the decline.
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Stir It Up!
Bastille Day is perfect for mussels, frites
Bastille Day is July 14. Celebrate France and its culinary contributions with this classic pair.
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EU unveils plan to revive dwindling fish stocks
The European Union acknowledged that existing policy has failed to stop declining European stocks, which have plummeted to about 10 percent of their post-WWII levels.
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Pacific Ocean trash patch mystery: How many fish eat plastic?
The finding, in a new study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, could have implications for the food chain. The region of floating trash in the Pacific Ocean is double the size of Texas.
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BP to inject $1 billion into Gulf restoration
BP money is expected to pay for restoration projects, which may include building new fishing piers and oyster reefs, or stabilizing bird sanctuaries with rock barriers
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Outside Cancún climate conference, Caribbean Sea testifies to global warming
2010 was one of the deadliest years on record for coral reefs. The Caribbean Sea just outside the Cancún climate conference offers evidence of global warming's negative effect.
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In Pictures: Cancun climate talks
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/04
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day 09/23
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 09/07
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Soaring temperatures spark mass coral death in Indonesia
Ocean temperatures in the waters off Indonesia have climbed into the 90s, devastating some of the world's most biodiverse coral reefs and threatening the livelihood of locals.
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Gallery: Dead zones
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Are we causing a mass extinction in our oceans?
Research shows that many areas of today's oceans have conditions that parallel those of 250 million years ago, when 95 percent of marine species quickly died out.
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Vital ocean phytoplankton a casualty of global warming?
A new study suggests that a global rise in ocean temperatures has cut the number of phytoplankton, which are the bedrock of the food chain, by 40 percent since 1950. Other scientists link the rise in ocean temperatures to global warming.
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Man returns home after three years at sea
A man returns home to the US after spending three years at sea on his sailboat.
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Oil spill cleanup: BP spill's effect on endangered marine species potentially 'mind-boggling'
Oil spill cleanup: The growing BP oil spill threatens a critically endangered sawfish with extinction, as well as many other threatened species.
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Killer seaweed poisons vulnerable coral reefs
A certain type of seaweed can kill corals on contact upon contact by releasing deadly chemicals.
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In Pictures: Disaster averted at the Great Barrier Reef
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Britain names Chagos Islands world's largest marine preserve
The government of Britain named the Chagos Islands – home to the military base of Diego Garcia and some of the Indian Ocean's healthiest coral reefs – the world's largest marine preserve.
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