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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

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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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, though, it’s not like the UK would ever get involved in a shooting war over fishing… except for that one time. And three other related times.

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Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

Fish with a switchblade and other animal weapons. By Liz Langley, for National Geographic.
Fish and chips shops battered by soaring costs: Brexit threatens Britain’s national dish. By Jamie Doward, for the Guardian.
Noisy reefs help fish find their way home. By Sue Palminteri, for MongaBay
Something slithery this way comes: the difference between sea snakes and eels. By Emily Brauner, for the Ocean Conservancy blog.
Catch and deceased. By Christopher Pollon, for Hakai.
Why Atlantic species are invading the Arctic. By Eli Kintisch, for Vox.
New Brunswick fishermen not happy with rules to protect whales. By Alexander Quon, for Global News.
Chinese fish farm tests the waters with the world’s largest salmon cage. By Frank Tang, for the South China Morning Post.
Unique Amazon coral reef at risk from oil drilling. By Amelia Urry, for OceansDeeply.
Feds agree to list 75 remaining pink dolphins as endangered. By Ramona Young-Grindle, for Courthouse News
How to save the high seas. By Olive Heffernan, for Nature.

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Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

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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