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Issues: Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Giant trash dump in Pacific is bad for sea life - but you can make it better

March 26, 2009

Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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albatross, birds, ellendegeneres, greatpacificgarbagepatch, lisasuatoni, makana, montereybayaquarium, plasticbags, plasticgyre, pollution, recycling, simplesteps, tips, trash, turtles, wallstreetjournal

At first, I was glad to see the Wall Street Journal headline "How Big Is That Widening Gyre of Floating Plastic?" yesterday. But after reading on, I found the piece really misses the point when it came to the giant,...

New York Times: Save our seas by curbing your emissions

December 12, 2008

Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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acidification, CO2, coral, coralreefbleaching, energyefficiency, healthyoceansact, marineprotectedareas, newyorktimes, oceanacidification, oceans, oil, pteropods, seaangels, sustainableseafood, whales

I was thrilled to see the New York Times editorial yesterday "The Oceans' Shifting Balance," which talked about what all the CO2 emissions in our air are doing to our oceans.  CO2 pollution – the same that is contributing to...