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'Inhospitable Oceans' Acidifying at Rate Unseen in 250 Million Years (or Ever) | Jon Queally
Read more...New study shows oceans in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's history (Photo: 'Rough Ocean'/Flickr/Jacqueline Fasser) Aug. 26, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In both a new study published Monday and in a newspaper interview over the weekend, German marine biologist Hans Poertner warns the world that the crisis of ocean acidification -- an intricately woven aspect o ...
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Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)
Read more...Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...
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Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)
Read more...Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing coun ...
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Eruption: As the Indonesian volcano explodes, scientists fear something far more catastrophic may be brewing (William Sargent)
Read more...A plume of gas and ash billows some six miles high from the Mount Merapi volcano Nov. 4. (Clara Prima/ AFP/ Getty Images) Nov. 10, 2010 (Boston Globe) -- THE MERAPI volcano, currently exploding more ...
