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Watch Dramatic Elephant Rescue 10 Miles Off Sri Lanka Coast

Watch Dramatic Elephant Rescue 10 Miles Off Sri Lanka Coast

Sri Lanken Navy divers and wildlife officials saved an elephant that was swept about eight nautical miles (roughly 10 miles) off the coast of Kokkuthuduwai, Kokilai on Tuesday. The rescue team was able to carefully direct the animal towards the coast with ropes after a 12-hour effort. Dramatic footage of the rescue shows the elephant […]

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    Feds Sued by State of California Over Offshore Fracking

    Feds Sued by State of California Over Offshore Fracking

    Citing risks to public health and marine life, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the California Coastal Commission filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the federal government’s inadequate analysis of offshore fracking’s threats to the California coast. Feds Find Offshore #Fracking in the Pacific Would Have No 'Significant' Environmental Impact https://t.co/eypwXoSNZA @CenterForBioDiv — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) June […]

    World’s First Aerial Survey of Great Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘It’s Worse Than We Thought’

    World’s First Aerial Survey of Great Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘It’s Worse Than We Thought’

    Boyan Slat, the 22-year-old Dutch inventor and CEO behind The Ocean Cleanup, announced today preliminary results of the organization’s latest major research mission, the Aerial Expedition, the first-ever aerial survey of an ocean garbage patch. Boyan Slat next to Ocean Force One, which will help accurately quantify the ocean’s biggest and most harmful debris—discarded fishing […]

    Warming Atlantic Ocean Leads to Rise in Marine Bacteria

    Warming Atlantic Ocean Leads to Rise in Marine Bacteria

    By Robert McSweeney Rising sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic are likely to be behind a recent surge in cases of diarrhoeal diseases from marine bacteria in northern Europe and the U.S. East Coast, a new study says. In their analysis that goes back to 1958, the researchers show that levels of Vibrio bacteria—which […]

    Buddhist Monks Return Hundreds of Lobsters Back to the Sea

    Buddhist Monks Return Hundreds of Lobsters Back to the Sea

    By Alicia Graef Hundreds of lobsters avoided being boiled alive thanks to a group of Buddhist monks from Prince Edward Island. The monks, who are from the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society, bought the lobsters—600 pounds worth of them—solely with the intention of returning them to their rightful home in the ocean. https://twitter.com/JDoriaBrownCBC/statuses/751801405896286208 Venerable Dan, […]