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Orca protection and vanishing Arctic lakes: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, December 20th, 2018

Posted on December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet):

  • Follow YouTube science communicator Kurtis Baute on twitter!
  • Ottawa designates two new areas as critical habitat for killer whales in B.C. waters. CHEK news.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Arctic lakes are vanishing by the hundreds. By Chelsea Harvey, for Scientific American.
  • Even fish get the bends. By Anna Saleh, for ABC news
  • Seals eye view shows shows Weddell seals playing, fighting underwater in Antarctica. From New Zealand’s One News Now
  • Deep Seagrass Bed Could Stall Climate Change, If Climate Change Doesn’t Kill It First. By Emma Bowman, for NPR All Things Considered.
  • Gila Trout: A Native Trout conservation story. By Steve Midway, for the Fisheries Blog.
  • Warming oceans offer coral a new place to colonize. By Richard Kemeny, for Hakai
  • Shorebirds can no longer count on the Arctic as a safe haven for rearing their young. By Mike Gaworecki, for MongaBay
  • Alarming levels of chemicals in great barrier reef turtles. By Lisa Cox, fo the Guardian

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