All posts tagged with ocean health
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-(Natural News) Plastic waste is one of the leading causes of environmental problems today. While everyone’s looking for ways to solve this looming crisis, researchers from Yale University suggest using a mushroom that feasts on plastic. In their study, which appeared in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, the team said that Pestalotiopsis microspora can not only live off polyurethane – a compound […]
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-(Natural News) Plastics are so pervasive in our society and environment that it is almost impossible to imagine life without them. From the bottles our babies drink their formula from, to the containers our kids take their lunches to school in, plastic is literally everywhere. The thing about plastic is that besides causing a devastating […]
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-(Natural News) What do you call a tiny critter that lives in most corals and creates chlorophyll but doesn’t bother using it to turn sunlight into energy? Dubbed corallicolid, this unusual creature is the first known organism that is capable of phototropic behavior yet doesn’t perform photosynthesis. Corallicolids belong to the phylum Apicomplexa. Its relatives […]
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-(Natural News) A recent string of power outages reportedly sent at least 4.5 million gallons of raw sewage from wastewater treatment plants throughout Seattle directly into the crisp waters of Puget Sound, once again illustrating that this leftist-run metropolis has a very serious poop problem on its hands. Whenever the power goes out in Seattle, […]
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-(Natural News) A team of 250 experts from around the world has named plastic pollution as one of the greatest threats to global health. Estimates suggest that eight million tons of plastic waste is dumped into the oceans every year. There is little doubt that the plastic revolution has changed the world –but as we […]
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-(Natural News) The nuclear fallout from a Russian submarine that was sunk off the coast of Norway roughly three decades ago has spiked dramatically over the past several years, and experts are scratching their heads trying to figure out why. According to reports, the Soviet-era vessel, which currently sits at the bottom of the Barents […]
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-(Natural News) The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has been under threat lately from coral bleaching, but now it’s facing what experts are terming “another nail in the coffin” as plans have been approved to dump more than a million tons of sludge there. In January, a permit was issued by the Great Barrier Reef […]
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-(Natural News) Scientists discovered a mysterious disease that has been killing the already dwindling coral reefs in the Lower Florida Keys. The scientists tried to prevent the outbreak from spreading for four years by removing the sick corals and setting underwater “fire breaks.” Researchers from Florida Keys Community College, working with state and federal investigators, […]
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-(Natural News) We are accustomed to hearing about global warming, how the polar bears are dying off as ice breaks away into the North Atlantic Ocean. What we never hear about is the cooling of the coastal waters near Florida, which causes the Florida’s manatee population to suffer from cold-stress syndrome and a slow, painful […]
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-(Natural News) Earth’s once-pristine oceans are now seas of plastic waste. And for marine life, the unending flow of used microplastics and other trash is beyond life-threatening. Scientists recently surveyed 50 dead sea mammals who’d washed up on British shores, and found that every single one had consumed plastic. Ten different species of dolphin, seal […]
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