Posts Tagged ‘ oceans ’

It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s… Enviropig?

April 6, 2010
By Beth Buczynski
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s… Enviropig?

It's often said, "two wrongs don't make a right," but that wisdom seems to have escaped a group of scientists suggesting that a genetically engineered pig, eerily dubbed "Enviropig," might be the answer to the agricultural pollutants that are making large portions of the ocean uninhabitable for marine life.
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Pigs, Pollution, and Ocean Dead Zones. Can You Hear Me Now?

April 5, 2010
By Beth Buczynski
Pigs, Pollution, and Ocean Dead Zones. Can You Hear Me Now?

From giant whales and manta rays to tiny fish that represent an essential link in the marine food chain, there's so much more going on beneath the waves than might initially meet the eye. That is, of course, unless you've stumbled into a dead zone.
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Garbage Patch Kids

July 8, 2009
By Beth Buczynski
Garbage Patch Kids

It’s a swirling mass of color and shape, driven in silent perpetual motion by the planet’s own vortical motion. It’s not the newest work of an abstract artist, but something much larger, and much deadlier. It’s the North Pacific Gyre…better known as the Great Garbage Patch. Technically speaking, a gyre is any manner of...
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