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Thursday Afternoon Dredging: January 19th, 2017

Posted on January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet):

  • Watch this basking shark breach!
Basking shark breaching in Cornwall, UK
  • Follow GreatLakesCisco, a freshwater fish restoration citizen science project run by Ph.D. student Ellen George, on twitter!
  • Remember when 2014 was the hottest year on record? Then 2015? Now it’s 2016. By Brad Plumer, for Vox.
  • Dozens of false killers whales mysteriously strand in the Everglades. By Merri Kennedy, for NPR.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • What does China’s ivory ban mean for elephants? By John Platt, for Extinction Countdown
  • Private capital investment in conservation is on the rise. By Mike Gaworecki, for MongaBay
  • What it’s like to be an underwater crime scene investigator. By Ella Morton, for Slate’s Atlas Obscura.

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