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Saving the Iron Snail, Ghosts of the Potomac, Invasion of the Land Crabs, and More! Monday Morning Salvage: July 22, 2019.

Posted on July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

This week in deep-sea mining:

  • Seabed-Mining Foes Press U.N. to Weigh Climate Impacts. Minerals used in electronics are found on the seafloor, but disturbing them could release carbon.
  • Red List: Extinction threat to overlooked species.
The scaly-foot snail lives only at hydrothermal vent sites. Chong Chen.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

SPACE!

  • One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for the Merchant Marine
  • Discard Studies with an incredibly important dissection of the Tragedy of the Commons: The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the commons.

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

  • Radiation Levels at the Marshall Islands Remain Disturbingly High.
The mushroom cloud from the “Ivy Mike” nuclear test over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. Image: Photo/Los Alamos National Laborator
  • Lobstermen and women rally against industry regulations, right whale deaths
  • From California to Alaska, animals born during the infamous Blob are coming of age.
  • Poor shark was slowly sliced open by plastic ring she got stuck around her neck as a baby.
Destiny the porbeagle shark was almost beheaded by a plastic ring that got stuck around her neck as a baby, and which began to cut into her flesh as she grew older (Pictures: Sulikowski Shark and Fish Research Lab)
  • We just can’t win. Another Thing Killing Coral Reefs: Our Poop.
  • Pirates Kidnap Ten Turkish Sailors Off Nigeria.
  • What’s Killing Seabirds in the Bering Sea?
  • Not Good: From over 100,000 species assessments in IUCN update, zero improvements.
  • The Short Life and Strange Death of Maryland’s Ghost Fleet. The long-languishing ships of Mallows Bay are getting a second life as a National Marine Sanctuary.
Marine Robotics & Remote Sensing, Duke University
  • Global shipping industry at risk of asset stranding.
  • Scientists Wrote a Eulogy for Iceland’s First Glacier Lost to Climate Change
  • Florida homes invaded by scurrying onslaught of land crabs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadA9X6-BwQ

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