Happy Father's Day! These seahorse dads go the extra mile in a parenting scheme that is unusual in the animal kingdom. Biologists studying seahorses search for them in low visibility water. In …
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The Week in Water: Jun 9-15, 2012
The Week in Water brings you blue living ideas and news from around the web. Hormones injected into dairy cows stay around in the environment longer than previously suspected. In India, Chief …
Desalination Plant in West Bank Improves Irrigation
A desalination plant in the West Bank will improve irrigation for farmers this year. The Palestinian village of Marj Naaja has a fifty-year-old water well that produces water too saline for drinking …
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Using Stalactites as Rain Gauges
According to a paper in Physical Review Letters this month, scientists may be able to determine historical precipitation rates by using the rings that form on stalactites. Stalactites form when water …
Hardy Species Hitch a Ride from Deep Sea Vent
Some deep sea explorers got a bit of a surprise when they found that a species of snail known only from deep sea hydrothermal vents had hitched a ride to the surface. Previously, researchers had …
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Red Deer River Oil Spill
About 125,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Red Deer River after a pipeline broke in Jackson Creek. The oil coated the banks of Jackson Creek and the Red Deer River for more than sixteen miles …
The Week in Water: Jun 2-8, 2012
The Week in Water brings you blue living ideas from around the web. There's an app that reminds you to water your houseplants. The Koubachi Wifi Plant Sensor sits in the pot of one of your …
Ocean Acidification: Some Simple Things You Can Do About It
June 8th is World Oceans Day, the UN-designated day for the global community to celebrate and take action for our shared ocean. This year, take a moment to make change on two little-known but …
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World Oceans Day 2012
June 8 is World Oceans Day. The theme for 2012 is Youth: The Next Wave for Change. The oceans are important to all of us, even those of us who live far inland. The oceans provide food and other …
Massive Algae Bloom Under Arctic Ice
NASA has discovered a massive algae bloom under Arctic ice. In years past, as Arctic ice melted in the summer, algae multiplied and fed the Arctic ecosystem. A NASA expedition discovered that the …
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Japanese Tsunami Debris Includes 66 Foot Dock
Among the Japanese tsunami debris that has washed up onshore is a sixty-six foot dock, still intact. The dock washed ashore on Tuesday morning on Agate Beach, near Newport, Oregon. It measures …
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Brands of the Great Pacific Garbage Dump
by Kali Wyrosdic Of the five different gyres existing in our oceans, each one is suspected of having its own floating garbage patch. The largest, and first to be discovered, was last estimated at …
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How to Water Your Lawn
With summer heating up quickly, lawns are already getting thirsty. The folks at Trugreen, a lawn service company, sent around a list of tips on how to water your lawn to promote healthy grass and …
Solar Powered Floating Resort
A luxurious floating resort allows residents to view undersea life while going green. The resort is described by the designer as part habitation, part yacht, and part submarine. It's designed to be …
The Week in Water: May 26-Jun 1, 2012
The Week in Water brings you blue living ideas and news from around the web. The sea surface temperature map from NASA above shows the temperatures on 30 May 2012. Scientists are predicting a normal …
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Puget Sound Salmon Conservation—Admirable change, the “Washington Way”
Over the past 30 years, wild salmon numbers have depleted due to over fishing, habitat destruction, dams, and hatchery salmon competition. These pressures are just one of the many side effects of the …
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Climate Change May Spur Algae Infection Along the East Coast
In 2007 an invasive algae, Didymosphenia geminata, known as didymo, or "rock snot," was identified in the cold waters near Hancock, New York. It grew in a thick mat, sometimes eight inches thick, …
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Fukushima Radiation Found in Bluefin Tuna in the Eastern Pacific
Researchers have found radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant in bluefin tuna found in the Eastern Pacific. The tuna contained levels of cesium-134 nearly ten times higher than in previous …
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Seagrass Meadows Store Carbon Better Than Trees
Seagrass meadows store as much carbon per hectare as trees, but the seagrass keeps the carbon stored longer. Trees capture about 27 million tons of carbon annually, but when a tree dies, it releases …
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Pink Dolphins of Taiwan
A small population of pink dolphins live off the western shore of Taiwan. The dolphins start out gray as babies and slowly turn pink as they become adults. Until recently, the pink dolphins (Sousa …
The Week in Water: May 19-25, 2012
The Week in Water brings you blue living ideas and news from around the web. A forty-year leak in underground pipes has produced an underground jet fuel spill of between eight million gallons and …
Industrial Waste Disposal Facility Responsible for Formaldehyde in Tone River in Japan
An industrial waste disposal facility dumped a chemical in the Tone River in Japan, causing formaldehyde levels to exceed acceptable limits. More than 300,000 households lost their water supply over …
Japanese Tsunami Debris Hits Alaska
Debris from the March 11, 2011 tsunami has been washing ashore in bits and pieces for a while now, but this week, the amount of debris hitting Alaska has picked up significantly. Remote Montague …
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Razor Clams Burrow Fast Using Quicksand; Robots Can, Too
A team of scientists studying razors clams' locomotion found that they create their own quicksand to burrow. Next step, robots. The razor clams don't have much muscle and they have difficulty digging …
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