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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CO2 emissions could doom fishing industry]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Aside from warming climate, rising carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to ocean acidification, threatening sea live, warn researchers writing in the journal <i>Science</i>.  This trend makes it all the more important to reduce emissions, argue the authors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Census of marine life opens with 122,000 species]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Discovering a new species can be the highlight of a biologist's career.  Yet once a species enters the formal literature, complications may develop.  The systen has been especially problematic because for centuries biologists have lacked the tools to construct a full and flexible list of the world's innumerable species.  Using the Internet and hundreds of scientists around the world, the Census of Marine Life is attempting to take on this monumental task.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Caribbean Monk Seal is officially declared extinct]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The NOAA fish service has officially declared the Caribbean Monk Seal extinct.  The seal--the first to go extinct by human causes--has not had a confirmed sighting for fifty-six year.  Many scientists believe sightings that have followed the last confirmation were probably of Hooded Seals and not the Caribbean Monk. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dried-up Colorado takes toll on giant Mexican fish]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Colorado River vanishes before it reaches the Sea of Cortez in all but the wettest years. Companies in California and the southwestern U.S. have diverted its once-vibrant flow to quench their thirst for water and power. Now, a new study in the April 2008 issue of the journal Biological Conservation reports that the dwindling of this major artery has changed the way some marine fish in the Gulf of California grow and develop.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists aim to catalogue tropical island from mountaintops to seafloor]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists are launching an effort to catalogue a complete tropical ecosystem, the first time anyone has attempted such an ambitious undertaking. Led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, a U.S.-French team plans to collect DNA "barcodes" for every animal, plant, and fungus on the small island of Moorea in the South Pacific, scouring habitats from coral reefs to high-reaching cloud forests. The island could eventually serve as a model for how ecosystems respond to stresses such as climate change, invasive species, and pollution.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Diversity in streams may brace Chinook salmon for climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Chinook salmon face a one-two punch. They have disappeared from several rivers in the western U.S. largely because of human interventions and some populations are threatened or endangered.  Numbers of Chinook in California's Central Valley have dwindled by 88 percent in the past five years, a loss that closed fisheries for 2008 and may cost California's economy $167 million, according to the state Department of Fish and Game. On top of all this looms a second impact: These salmon will be in hotter water still because of climate change.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0603-ucsc_hayley_salmon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greenpeace ship attacked by Turkish tuna fishermen during protest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Members of a Turkish tuna fishing boat attacked the Greenpeace ship <i>Arctic Sunrise</i> while the ship was engaged in a protest against overfishing.  The incident occurred Friday in the Cypriot Channel and was reported to the Turkish Iskenderun Gulf Port Authorities.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[50 years after the blast: Recovery in Bikini Atoll's coral reef]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fifty years after atomic bombs rocked Bikini Atoll and pulverized its coral reef, the lagoon again boasts a flourishing coral community. Scientists diving in the two-kilometer-wide Bravo Crater, created in 1954 by a blast 1,000 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, found a thriving habitat with treelike corals 30 centimeters (one foot) thick. The study shows that coral reefs can recover from profound damage?when humans leave them alone.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ocean acidification worse than expected, threatens sea life]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Increasing ocean acidification along the continental shelf of North America will likely have negative impacts on marine ecosystems, including the corrosion of calcium carbonate exoskeletons in many organisms, warn researchers writing in the journal <i>Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0522-oceans.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2008 hurricane forecast: storm activity will be above normal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government's weather agency predicts an above average Atlantic hurricane season this year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming harming plant-eating animals in the Arctic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Climate change is making it more difficult for plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments like as the Arctic to locate food, according to a new study published in the online edition of the journal <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-caribou.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Humpback whale population is recovering]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The number of humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean has increased substantially since international and federal protections were put into place in the 1960s and 70s, according to a new study involving more than 400 whale researchers throughout the Pacific region.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming will produce fewer hurricanes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Global warming will produce fewer Atlantic hurricanes, according to a study published today in the journal <i>Nature Geoscience</i> by a U.S. government meteorologist.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0518-hurricanes.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global wildlife declines 30% in 30 years]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly one third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to a study released by the Zoological Society of London, WWF and the Global Footprint Network.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0516-wildlife.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nitrogen pollution harming ecosystems and contributing to global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nitrogen pollution of the world's oceans is harming marine ecosystems and contributing to global warming, report two reviews published in the journal <i>Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-nitrogen.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming to worsen ocean dead zones, hurt fisheries]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Warming oceans will worsen oxygen-deficient or hypoxic dead zones, affecting ecosystems and fisheries, warn researchers writing in the journal Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-oceans.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos - researchers study largest squid ever captured]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Marine biologists in New Zealand are thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught in order to learn more about one of the ocean's most mysterious creatures.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-squid_study.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fatal San Diego Shark Attack a Rare Event]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Friday morning a 66-year-old swimmer was attacked and killed by a shark off Solana Beach in San Diego county.  It was the first fatal shark attack in San Diego since 1994.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Arctic's most threatened marine mammals due to climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A recent study has measured the sensitivity to Arctic marine mammals to climate change. The study found that the three species most vulnerable to climate change are the hooded seal, the polar bear, and the narwhal: the common thread between these species being the loss of sea ice.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-hance_arctic.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shark-repelling fishing gear in the works]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fishing gear that produces an electric field in sea water could help prevent sharks from becoming accidental bycatch, say scientists at NOAA.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0423-sharks.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ocean dead zones have nearly quadrupled since 1994]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coastal areas worldwide are suffering from over-enrichment of their waters by nitrogen and phosphorus, finds a new study from the World Resources Institute (WRI).  This over-enrichment, known as eutrophication, causes numerous environmental problems, eventually devastating coastal environments.  In overly nutrient-rich waters phytoplankton, micro- and macroalgae grow to excessive portions; these 'algal blooms' diminish subaquatic vegetation, damage coral reefs, and deplete populations of fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and sea birds.  In the worst case scenarios the massive algal blooms form hypoxic or dead zones due to loss of oxygen in the water, essentially condemning the ecosystem.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0403-hance_wri.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Microbes could be the key to coral death]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists speaking today at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-coral.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Squid beaks may revolutionize engineering]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When scientists dissect the stomachs of sperm whales, they find the super-hard beaks of squids, the only part of them that is indigestible.  Scientists can tell the diet of a whale by the variety of beaks left behind, sometimes numbering in the thousands.  But how does a squid, whose body is soft and supple, have a beak that is considered one of the hardest organic materials in natures?  Scientists have long pondered this question.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-hance_squid.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Giant sea creatures discovered in Antarctica]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An eight week long survey of New Zealand's Antarctic waters has turned up giant creatures including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish, as well as up to eight previously undiscovered species of mollusc, reports the Associated Press (A.P.).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0321-antarctica.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Perennial ice disappearing in the Arctic receives little attention from the media]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A big story came out on the loss of perennial ice in Arctic from NASA on Wednesday &#8212; and was mostly ignored by the media.  Despite a colder winter than usual, the Arctic is losing its perennial ice (ice that lasts longer than a season) making the region even more susceptible to global warming.  Perennial ice used to cover 50-60 percent of the Arctic.  Results from this year's satellites show that perennial ice has decreased to less than 30 percent.  In addition ice older than six years has declined from 20 percent in the eighties to six percent today.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0319-hance_arctic.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dams mask sea level rise]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Water held in man-made reservoirs is masking the true extent of sea level rise from melting ice and thermal expansion, report scientists writing in the journal <i>Science</i>.  The researchers, from the National Central University in Taiwan, calculate that sea levels would be 30 mm (1.2 inches) higher without water stored behind dams.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0313-sea_levels.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fast-growing coral may help reefs survive global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two fast-growing coral species may hold the key to Caribbean reefs surviving global warming, report researchers writing in the journal Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0313-coral.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Humans are appropriating 20% more resources than Earth can provide]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mankind is appropriating 20 percent more resources each year than Earth can produce, according to a report from environmental group WWF.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0310-wwf.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corn ethanol is worsening the Gulf dead zone]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Proposed legislation that will expand corn-ethanol production in the United States will worsen the growing "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and hurt marine fisheries, report researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0310-ethanol.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cretaceous sea levels were 550 feet higher than today]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sea levels were 550 feet (170 m) higher in the late Cretaceous period, about 80 million years ago, than today, shows a new reconstruction of historic ocean basins published in the journal Science.  The authors say the work may help model current global warming-driven sea level change.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0306-sea_levels.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New 'red list' seeks to stave off global seafood collapse]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Over-fishing and destructive fishing practices have had a considerable effect on oceanic ecosystems.  In 2006 a highly-reported study found that without drastic measures all wild seafood will disappear from the oceans in 50 years.  Greenpeace, working against such a crash, has started a campaign that highlights 'red fish'.  The twenty-two 'red' species are seafood that consumers and suppliers (including supermarkets) should avoid due to their plummeting populations and/or the damage caused by harvesting them.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-hance_seafood.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Expedition finds inverted pyramid where sharks dominate marine ecology]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A survey of a remote Pacific archipelago turned up pristine coral reefs that could offer a "baseline" for measuring the human impact on reefs worldwide, report researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California at San Diego.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-kingman.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest logging threatens endangered sea turtles]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging is having an unexpected impact on endangered sea turtles in Central Africa, reports a new study published in <i>Oryx</i>. Aerial surveys in Gabon reveal that logs lost during transport are clogging beaches, preventing critically endangered leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from nesting.
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<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-sea_turtles.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon rainfall linked to Atlantic Ocean temperature]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Climate models increasingly forecast a dire future for the Amazon rainforest. These projections are partly based on recent research that has linked drought in the Amazon to sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic. As the tropical Atlantic warms, the southern Amazon -- the agricultural heartland of Brazil -- may see higher temperatures and less rainfall.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-good_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deep-sea krill discovered in Antarctica]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Antarctic krill have been found living at depths up to 3000 meters near the Antarctic Peninsula, a finding that changes scientists' understanding of a fundamental part of the ocean food chain.  Previously researchers believed that krill lived only in the upper ocean.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-krill.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Widespread butterflyfish may go extinct due to global warming, pollution]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Chevroned Butterflyfish, a colorful fish found in tropical oceans around the world, faces extinction due to overexploitation, pollution and climate change, report researchers writing in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology.  Despite its widespread distribution, the species could be doomed by its specialized feeding habitats: the Chevroned Butterflyfish (Chaetodon trifascialis) feeds on only one type of coral.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-butterflyfish.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Large-scale Amazon deforestation or drying would have dire global consequences]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study shows that large-scale degradation of the Amazon, either through drying or continued deforestation, would have global consequence, including worsening climate change, causing regional vegetation shifts, and increasing dust in the atmosphere.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0221-hance_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming - not el Nino - drove severe Amazon drought in 2005]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One of the worst droughts on record in the Amazon was caused by high temperatures in the Atlantic rather than el Nino.  The research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, suggests that human-driven warming is already affecting the climate of Earth's largest rainforest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0220-marengo_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Planktos kills iron fertilization project due to environmental opposition]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Planktos, a California-based firm that planned a controversial iron-fertilization scheme in an attempt to qualify carbon offsets, announced that it failed to find sufficient funding  for its efforts and would postpone its project indefinitely.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0219-planktos.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of bizarre creatures discovered in Antarctica]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers aboard the Aurora Australis, an Australian vessel, have discovered a trove of strange creatures on the sea floor near East Antarctica.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0219-antarctica.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0219-antarctica.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Tuna may go the way of cod: a collapsed fishery]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The collapse of the cod fishery could provide important lessons to prevent a similar fate for some tuna populations, say researchers presenting at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Boston on February 18.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0218-tuna.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0218-tuna.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Why are oceans at risk from global warming?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Climate change is putting the world's oceans at risk by increasing the temperature and acidity of seawater, and altering atmospheric and oceanic circulation, warned a panel of scientists this week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-oceans.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-oceans.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[How will global warming affect marine food chains?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rising temperatures and acidity of the world's oceans due to human emissions of carbon dioxide is putting marine food webs at risk warned a researcher speaking at a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-acidification.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-acidification.html</guid>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Mysteries of the Great White Shark unveiled]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Great White Shark has always been a creature of mystery.  The world's largest shark has long fascinated humanity from the novel and film Jaws to recent sumptuous footage of the sharks catching sea lions in Planet Earth.  The behemoth, who at times can reach seven meters in length, has also become famous for occasionally attacking swimmers and surfers, though scientists believe the sharks do not intentionally hunt humans.  However, the great predator's behavior and lifecycle remains mostly mysterious to science.  Some of these mysteries are just now being unraveled thanks to the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-hance_sharks.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-hance_sharks.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Ocean trawling impacts can be seen from space]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0216-trawling.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0216-trawling.html</guid>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Digital maps and mathematical analysis could reduce fishing bycatch]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Images of dolphins and turtles ensnared in tuna nets are a heart-wrenching reminder of the impact of fisheries on ocean bio-diversity. Known in fisheries science as ‘by-catch,’ this killing of non-target species is a complex problem that has resisted easy answers.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0216-bycatch.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0216-bycatch.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Warming could bring sharks to Antarctica with devastating ecological consequences]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Global warming could make the waters around Antarctica hospitable to sharks for the first time in 40 million years.  Their return could have devastating ecological consequences report researchers from the University of Rhode Island.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0215-sharks.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0215-sharks.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[World's largest marine protected area established in the South Pacific]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Kiribati, a small island nation in the South Pacific, has established the world's largest marine protected area.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0214-kiribati.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0214-kiribati.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Only 4% of the ocean is pristine according to first oceanic map of human-impact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There is a much used adage regarding the ocean that goes something like this: we know more about our solar system than our ocean.  Whether or not one believes this to be true (less than 5% of the ocean has been explored), a group of over twenty researchers, by agglomerating the available information on the oceans, have created a large-scale image of the ocean's health.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0214-hance_ocean.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0214-hance_ocean.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Fatal shark attacks hit a 20-year low in 2007]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Human deaths from shark attacks hit a 20-year low in 2007 according to statistics released by the University of Florida.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0213-sharks.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0213-sharks.html</guid>
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