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Booms that go boom, a deep-sea mining spiral, dying to go green, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: January 7, 2019

Posted on January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • The US Government enters it’s third week of shutdown over Trump’s Border Wall. Democrats in the House passing funding bills identical to the one unanimously passed by the Senate. Despite that, McConnell won’t let those funding bills come to a vote in his Senate. The Republicans own this travesty.
  • ‘Appalling’ toilets and rule-breaking as US shutdown hits national parks.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • How a Seaweed-Eating Microbe Could Help Fight Plastic Pollution
  • Apple finally admits what we basically all knew: being able to repair electronics is bad for the iPhone’s bottom line and that’s really bad news for the environments. Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones.
  • Snow at sea is lovely.

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Scallops, barnacles, and oysters- oh my! Thursday Afternoon Dredging, September 6th, 2018

Posted on September 6, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): Follow COSEWIC, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, on twitter. ‘Scallop wars’: UK offers olive branch as French navy threatens to act. By Pippa Crerar, for the Guardian. Brexit is complicating some existing relationships between the UK and European nations, including some fishing rights issues. Don’t worry, … Read More “Scallops, barnacles, and oysters- oh my! Thursday Afternoon Dredging, September 6th, 2018” »

Seafaring neanderthals and switchblade fish: A mega Thursday Afternoon Dredging, May 10th, 2018

Posted on May 10, 2018May 9, 2018 By David Shiffman
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After two weeks off, we’re back and bigger than ever! Cuttings (short and sweet):  Follow Archaeologist makes case for seafaring Neanderthals. By Christopher Ingraham, for Scientific American. Larson Creek trout may have been wiped out. By Randy Shore, for the Vancouver Sun. US Coast Guard steps up efforts to protect right whales. From GCaptain. The US … Read More “Seafaring neanderthals and switchblade fish: A mega Thursday Afternoon Dredging, May 10th, 2018” »

Thursday Afternoon Dredging: September 14th, 2017

Posted on September 14, 2017September 13, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Watch this bat ray at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Follow Marie Auger-Méthé, an Arctic ecologist, on twitter!
  • How sea creatures change color. From Nature Research Highlights.
  • Global fingerprints of sea level rise revealed by satellites. By Rachael Lallensack for Nature News.

 

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What does your sandwich cost, rare species in the deep, dong worms, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 26, 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • NPR did a great breakdown on the full carbon cost of one sandwich.
  • Public Lab was born from the desperate need for unconflicted data during the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Since then, they’ve grown into a global movement for citizen science. They just relaunched their world-changing balloon mapping kit on Kickstarter. Get yours now!

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Thursday Afternoon Dredging: February 16th, 2017

Posted on February 16, 2017February 16, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet):

Logo by Ethan Kocak

  • Watch cownose rays migrate past Destin, Florida, filmed by a parasailer

  • Follow Abby Lawson, a Ph.D. candidate researching alligators, on twitter!
  • Debunking myths about ocean garbage patches. From the NOAA restoration blog
  • What does BREXIT mean for UK fishing rights? By Daniel Boffey, for the Guardian

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