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Major changes to marine forests.
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Shape-shifting marine life.
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Whales like to play as well.
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Reef 're-seeding' using coral transplants.
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An underwater museum combining art & science.
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Protecting dolphins using VR.
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Reminders of Earth Day should be every day.
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A potential cure for plastic pollution.
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Art installations to save the oceans.
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Practical projects to help coral reefs.
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96% of ocean life is unknown.
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A new dolphin found living in plain sight.
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Whales and their environmental effects.
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Protecting the oceans every day.
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Cleaning Dutch canals of plastic waste.
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Sustaining the oceans helps feed the world.
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A small dolphin may soon join the dodo.
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Riled Up has paid close attention to sharks with previous posts on their conservation situation and the massive overfishing of these top ocean predators to produce a status-symbol soup in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The unsustainable demand in Asia poses the threat of extinction for these iconic marine creatures that have survived since the dinosaurs.
It seems that many others around the world have been paying attention to their precarious situation also.
Both the BBC and Public ...
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The Dolphin in the Mirror is a newly published book by marine mammal researcher Diana Reiss, dolphin research director at Baltimore's National Aquarium. Her radio interview on the Diane Rehm Show was an excellent introduction to marine mammal intelligence and issues of dolphin conservation worldwide. It is well worth capturing the podcast for later listening.
In particular, the interview focused on self recognition in dolphins-- one of the cognitive psychological keys to an animals ...