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Narwhal stress and coral disease: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, December 14th, 2017

Posted on December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Watch this amazing scene from Blue Planet 2!
  • Follow Cat Horswill, a PostDoc studying the life history of marine predators, on twitter!
  • In the Arctic, at least, diplomacy works. Bloomberg Editorial.
  • Mysterious “white plague” threatens South Florida coral reefs. By the Associated Press.
  • Climate change and overfishing are pushing seabirds to extinction. By Matthew Taylor, for the Guardian.
  • Not all that glitters is gold, some is plastic. By George Leonard, for the Ocean Conservancy Blog.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • How do fish handle the cold? By Brandon Peoples, for the Fisheries Blog.
  • These imaginary islands only existed on maps. By Simon Worrall, for National Geographic.
  • Stressed out narwhals don’t know whether to freeze or flee. By Nell Greenfieldboyce, for NPR.
  • Forest code falls short in protecting Amazonian fishes. By John Cannon, for MongaBay.

 

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