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Unless you purposefully ignore pop culture news coverage, you’re likely familiar with The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary revealing the annual dolphin hunts in Japan. The film made an incredible impression on global audiences and uncovered hidden secrets about dolphin and whale meat in Japanese fish markets. However, Animal Planet knows the story can’t be held in just one documentary film. Airing next Friday, August 27th, is Blood Dolphin, a miniseries that delves deeper into dolphin hunts. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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By now you’d have to have been living on a desert island by yourself with an imaginary coconut companion to not know that overfishing is a serious problem for all the world’s oceans. The good news is, though the future for fish looks pretty dire if we keep up how we’ve been fishing, we already have seen conservation successes to show the way forward and stop overfishing….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Superfund sites are hazardous waste areas that were once abandoned but have (finally) received funding for clean-up efforts. They’re all over the US and are usually kept on the down-low in the public eye by the government since they’re so hazardous to those living nearby. So when something is going right at a superfund site, the EPA is eager to get the same good thing going at other s…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The problem of sea level rise is usually discussed in terms of the dislocation of people away from coastlines, or even whole islands. But sea level rise has another dire impact: the loss of freshwater drinking supplies. The Delaware estuary is unfortunately a perfect example of how higher sea levels due to warmer global …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cave diving is scary business. There’s an endless list of things that can go wrong and a diver puts their life at risk every time they slip on their air mask. However, exploring underwater caves is important to understanding and discovering rarely seen ecosystems and slices of prehistoric worlds. Thanks to a great gallery of images, we get to see some of the wonder that attracts cave divers to their profession, and keeps them swimming despite their risk. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A high tech, deep sea robot named the Benthic Rover has been crawling around the ocean floors off the coast of California, collecting data on life at the bottom of the sea. The findings not only help scientists to understand more about how life exists at these depths, but can also be important for our understanding of how warming temperatures is affecting marine ecosystems. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Richard O’Barry was waiting for this, knowing that the halt on this year’s dolphin hunt was too good to be true, or last very long. Eight days later than usual, but still arriving, this year’s seasonal cetaceans killing has begun at Taiji with about 50 pilot whales and 100 bottlenose dolphins being driven into the cove this morning.

NEW UPDATE – Click through to get the latest info to cross the wires about the Taiji dolphin and pilot whale round up. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Roz Savage has just completed stage two of her journey rowing solo across the Pacific Ocean. She landed in Tarawa, a small atoll in the Republic of Kiribati after 104 solid days of rowing. That means two things: First, she’s the first woman to row solo across the Pacific. Second, while stage two is done, there’s a really, really big stage 3 to look forward to. But her message makes the miles worth it. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coral reefs are worth about $100 billion annually thanks to everything from tourism to fishing. However, current climate targets are still not good enough to save them from dying off. If the fact that they’re a cornerstone for healthy ocean life is not incentive enough to save them, then is the loss of the source for this incredible annual revenue be enough to get policy makers to save coral reefs with appropriate climate targets? …Read the full story on TreeHugger