Cool Green Science

MAY 30, 2024

From religion major to glass blower to leader in global ocean conservation, Lizzie McLeod’s career path has been anything but conventional. The post Meet Lizzie McLeod, TNC’s Global Oceans Director appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2022

In February 2021, a German research vessel went on an expedition in the Weddell Sea to study ocean currents in the Antarctic. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Can’t get enough of cool deep-sea discoveries? Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 26, 2024

My favorite creatures in the ocean are the weird ones. They can be found in the benthic zone, the sandy bottom of the ocean. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 17, 2021

Historical illustrations give us a glimpse into the scientific research of the past—and they can be very cool to look at! Previously, we dug through the BHL archives to bring you some of our favorite ocean , shark and cephalopod illustrations from the 18 th and 19 th centuries. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at the water cycle and how it impacts the weather and our ocean. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As ocean waters warm , more water evaporates into the air, which then results in more intense and frequent rain or snow.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And yes, even though they dwell on the ocean floor, they have a couple of characteristics in common with their feline namesake. See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It turns out that catsharks do, too.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2023

Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 Even the deepest SCUBA dive ever recorded, 1,090 feet, is less than 10% of the way to the average ocean depth. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 7, 2022

Historical illustrations give us a glimpse into the scientific research of the past —and they can be very cool to look at! See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Now, we’re bringing you our favorite cool and unusual illustrations of whales from the BHL!

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog post was co-written by Black Surf Santa Cruz founder Esabella Bonner and board secretary Rachel Kippen whose organization has partnered with Ocean Conservancy over the past two years. Bonner founded Black Surf Santa Cruz in 2020 to make ocean spaces more inclusive and welcoming to BILPOC community members.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the Arctic Ocean, the summer sea ice minimum is an important milestone during this seasonal transition. The sea ice minimum occurs when the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reaches its lowest point for the year. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On November 2, The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania released new results and analysis of a federally-funded community science study that produced Philadelphia’s highest-resolution heat map to date. For more information, visit TNC-PA’s Urban Conservation in Pennsylvania webpage. Click Here to become a member.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 26, 2023

Every year, I gather with friends and family in someone’s backyard with cold drinks and hot dogs, all the while keeping our feet dipped in kiddie pools to cool off from the scorching midsummer heat. Want to learn more about ocean animals? The post Declaring Independence From Single-Use Plastics appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 21, 2023

The trees outside my house help cool my neighborhood, improve water quality and can even have a lasting effect on my sense of community. Specifically, some islands in the Indian Ocean have seen a decline in bird populations due to rats sneaking into their nests and eating unhatched eggs. Want to learn more about ocean animals?

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PBS Nature

APRIL 3, 2023

In the waters of Belize and Guatemala, a desperate fisherman takes his small boat into the open ocean in search of fish. Cold currents rising from the depths sweep nutrients up to the reef and cool the corals. The year is 2013. Encountering engine trouble, he peers over the side of his boat and can’t believe his eyes.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Gray whales will dive down to the ocean floor, turn to their sides, and scoop up sediment with their mouths. When feeding at the bottom of the ocean, a gray whale will try to scrape off these freeloaders, but it doesn’t always work. Just imagine how gray whales have seen their ocean home change during that time.

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Cool Green Science

MAY 1, 2022

The post Saving the Pacific’s Most Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles appeared first on Cool Green Science. A new monitoring effort will gather information about the world's most endangered population of leatherback sea turtle.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Each lantern shark comes equipped with big eyes to help them see in the darkness of the deep ocean, sharp spines behind their fins and photophores, which are bioluminescent organs that help light up their sides, fins and bellies. It’s why I feel called to protect our ocean, and you can join me by taking action and becoming an ocean advocate.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And yes, even though they dwell on the ocean floor, they have a couple of characteristics in common with their feline namesake. See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It turns out that catsharks do, too.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 9, 2023

Competition and cooperation ensued, but eventually the maritime Inuit were better suited to a cooling climate than the farming Norse, and Greenland became an Inuit homeland. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post South Greenland at a Crossroads appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Washington Nature

JULY 18, 2023

The Columbia River stretches around 1,243 miles from the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. After The Nature Conservancy conserved Ellsworth Creek Preserve in the early 2000s , scars still lie on the land today from the near-century history of logging.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 4, 2023

Justin Urresti, Conservation Forester, in the Clearwater Forest Reserve of Washington. Photo by Leah Palmer Justin Urresti, Conservation Forester knows his work must take place in harmony with community members. Hunt Creek feeds into to Clearwater River, which eventually spills into the Pacific Ocean. I’m cool with that.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Award Winners The 2021 Governor’s Awards for Environmental Excellence were awarded to: Statewide -- Game Commission for Wildlife on Wifi (WoW) : The commission launched this online conservation learning program in April 2020, shortly after COVID-19 orders went into effect. million kilowatt hours of electricity from solar energy.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

We are seeing the consequences in bushfires, acidifying oceans and locust invasions – which could push millions of people in East Africa into hunger. Backing sustainable production and consumption to conserve the planet’s resources. In April, the World Meteorological Organization said temperatures have increased 1.1

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The ocean is also experiencing record-breaking temperatures and more frequent marine heatwaves. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Up to this point, the ocean has been our greatest guardian against extreme heat and catastrophic climate changes.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 5, 2022

Jump on in and take a trip down to Bikini Bottom with us and meet some of the real ocean animals behind this world-renowned cartoon cast! But, for the sake of this blog (and the fact that the series’ creator was a marine science teacher and thought sea sponges were super cool and underrepresented animals), let’s say he’s a sea sponge.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

With more than 90% of global trade moving by ocean transport, maritime shipping is a major driver of the world economy. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post The Problems with Liquefied Natural Gas appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2024

Some threats are other birds that thrive thanks to major conservation victories. He hopes the tracking will indicate how seabirds adapt to ocean heatwaves and help offshore wind developers site facilities to avoid conflict with birds. I just thought it was cool being with birds.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 18, 2023

There’s something nice about exploring the coast, and whenever you get hot you can just pop into the ocean waves to cool down! These sights led me to wonder why more and more seaweed was surrounding me on my ocean walks and where was it all coming from. Love ocean content? What is seaweed? Where does seaweed come from?

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 10, 2023

Two YouTubers by the names of MrBeast and Mark Rober approached Ocean Conservancy to talk about their idea to create a major social movement for the ocean, based on their incredibly successful campaign, #TeamTrees. Their idea: For every dollar raised, a pound of trash would be removed from our beaches, rivers and ocean.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

WEDNESDAY 10:00: DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting. 9 Trail Challenge 25K Run/Hike In The Susquehanna Riverlands Conservation Landscape [PaEN] -- Keystone Trails Assn. Rachel Carson State Office Building, Room 105, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg. Hosts Sept.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Enter a true star of the ocean: algae! Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? The post Wild Facts About Algae appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Our own local team, and the ability to name it: how cool is that? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Ellen Cuylaerts/Ocean Image Bank. Wont’ you join us at Ocean Conservancy to protect these gentle giants? Never miss an update. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 29, 2023

Last week, TNC Washington, the Stillaguamish Tribe and the Tulalip Tribes hosted Dr. Richard Spinrad, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, for a tour of TNC’s Port Susan Bay Preserve and the Stillaguamish Tribe’s zis a ba II site.

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Frontiers

MAY 24, 2021

The results are published in Frontiers in Conservation Science and show the importance of such studies for marine wildlife conservation, as they provide important data that can help develop conservations actions such as marine protected areas. The species’ geographic range is thought to cover much of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2023

Animals around the world and throughout our ocean are impacted by changing temperatures. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As with everything in nature, there are a few cool exceptions. And humans aren’t the only ones that are affected.

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Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2022

Very cool study. Now the researchers found that in areas where beaver ponds existed in the Bavarian National Forest Park in Germany, there were more species of conservation concern found at the beaver ponds than on the river and forest plots. Research warns of significant conservation gaps in US ocean territory.

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