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Shrinking Islands, shrieking dolphins, little hobbit shrimp, boat knives, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 18, 2018

Posted on June 18, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • We owe the next generation a better world than we’re giving them. Call your representatives. Demand they stop separating children from their parents at the border. The ACLU has a script to use.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Dispatch from Tangier, the Sinking Island in the Chesapeake.
A combination of storm-driven erosion and sea-level rise, which are both increasing as climate change advances, may soon swallow the island entirely.Photograph by Gordon Campbell / At Altitude Gallery
  • Scientists say they’re confident Chesapeake Bay health is ‘significantly improving’.
  • This is the sound a dolphin might hear if it’s about to become dinner.
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A normal call. 

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The call of a dolphin that would rather not get eaten. 

The Levee (A featured project that emerged from Oceandotcomm)

  • Our Speak Up for the Blue rundown continues!

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