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Our #Oceans are affected by #climatechange #GlobalWarming #Oceanacidification, #coralbleaching #sealevelrise #plasticpollution #overfishing #deoxygenation

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Ryan Gallagher@rj_gallagher26 Sep 2018
NEW: Scientist who quit Google over its China censorship plan calls on US senators to act over what he calls "unethical & unaccountable" leadership at the company: theintercept.com/2018/09/26/… #Dragonfly
Former Google Scientist Tells Senate to Act Over Company's "Unethical and Unaccountable" China...

Former Google Scientist Tells Senate to Act Over Company's "Unethical and Unaccountable" China...

Google staff “actively subverted” an internal review of a search engine for China that would blacklist terms like “human rights,” ex-Google employee said.

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Oceana
@oceana21 Sep 2018
That #FridayFeeling.
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MDMA or ‘ecstasy’ makes octopuses more social, too zmescience.com/science/mdma-…
MDMA or 'ecstasy' makes octopuses more social, too

MDMA or 'ecstasy' makes octopuses more social, too

This could help scientists uncover the origin of social behavior in all animals.

zmescience.com
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Azula@azula20 Sep 2018
Why do we call orcas "killer whales" when they're not whales? There's a history behind this misleading nickname.
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Ocean Wise@OceanWise20 Sep 2018
Sharks have their own #Pacific ocean cafe: ow.ly/3zjf30lToMn

Great White Sharks Gather in Droves in the Middle of Nowhere, But Why?

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Ocean Wise@OceanWise19 Sep 2018
Great white sharks have led researchers to discover a secret, hidden oceanic void teeming with life: ow.ly/WlAK30lSp48
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@ABC16 Sep 2018
KEEP YOUR DISTANCE: A humpback whale made a surprise appearance off the coast of Nova Scotia, slapping an inflatable boat with its tail. Canadian gov't regulations require vessels to maintain a minimum distance of 330 feet from most whales and dolphins. abcn.ws/2NfuzDm
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MBARI@MBARI_News12 Sep 2018
The hidden lives of #deepsea creatures caught on camera. Super-sensitive devices capture #bioluminescent displays and other behaviours long shrouded in darkness. #MBARI scientist Steve Haddock’s work featured in @nature #DSBS2018 @beroe
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Where have our beautiful #corals gone? The #Philippines used to boast of over 27,000 square kilometers of #coral areas. Destructive fishing methods, including the use of trawls, dynamite and cyanide have caused enormous damage to the #marineecosystem goo.gl/svvDaS
The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the State Government of Quintana Roo has created a first-of-its-kind system that will protect the reef bit.ly/2CBgSK7
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@PADI9 Sep 2018
The Amazon River dolphin is famous for its pink color, but here is what you didn't know about these unique creatures: padi.co/oRzWbl
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@NYTScience7 Sep 2018
These sharks must be reclassified as omnivores — the first omnivorous sharks known to science. nyti.ms/2wKthVQ

The Omnivorous Sharks That Eat Grass (Published 2018)

Diminutive bonnethead sharks are the first omnivorous sharks known to science, which could change our understanding of what some sharks eat.

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CMS becomes Member of UN-Oceans as #BBNJ meetings start at @UN Headquarters in New York this week.bit.ly/2wNCZaK
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@PADI6 Sep 2018
Take a minute to get lost in this incredible video by Apple Napaket Limthanakit og Dive Team Thailand while diving in Komodo, Indonesia.
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#NOAA deploys a flotilla of #Saildrones. #Saildrones measuring air & #watertemperature, #salinity, #carbondioxide concentration, #fishabundance and the presence of marine animals. They were launched from #Alaska, #Washington and #California goo.gl/tCTTNn
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Ocean Wise@OceanWise6 Sep 2018
Dream job alert: Ocean Wise is looking for a Communications Advisor to join the team: ow.ly/oayd30lGz1y @BestJobsInVan #PR #communications
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#Seaturtles, #dolphins, #whales, and other marine wildlife in #California waters will get a reprieve from an indiscriminate fishing gear—#driftgillnets—thanks to state lawmakers’ passage of a bill to phase out the destructive equipment goo.gl/WFGmx8
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From The Pew Trusts @pewtrusts a quiz. "What Do You Know About the High Seas?" Test your knowledge with questions like-What percentage of the Earth's surface do the high seas represent? goo.gl/HHFaVC
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Government researchers and #WorldWildlifeFund experts seek to uncover elusive #narwhal activities. Each summer the #ArcticOcean – where #narwhals live – is warming due to increasing solar radiation goo.gl/RMvw3J
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Diverse family of #algae could help #corals survive #warmingseas. Some #corals stand a chance of surviving the current rise in global #seatemperatures, thanks to the diversity of their algal counterparts goo.gl/YTEyq3
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