NATURE WORLD NEWS - STRANGE JELLY CREATURES by Monica Antonio
EXCERPT ... Ryan Rustan, a local resident, posted a picture of the strange creatures that he described as "little water balloons popping under his feet." Rustan noted that there were approximately thousands of these little creatures on the Huntington Beach shore... Weird as they may look, Matt Bracken, UC Irvine associate professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, offered some answers in unveiling what these strange creatures really are. Bracken said these creatures could be "pelagic tunicates" or more commonly known as snaps.
11/24/16
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EXTINCTION : DO BIG OR SMALL SEA CREATURES DIE OFF FIRST?
CBS NEWS - SURVIVAL OF THE SMALLEST IN THE SEA
EXCERPT:
Almost none of the genera that have species averaging 0.4 inches long are threatened with extinction, But 23 percent of those that are 3.9 inches are threatened, 40 percent of those that are 39 inches are endangered and 86 percent of those that are 32.8 feet are vulnerable, Payne said.
These are species that are not extinct yet, but are on the respected Red List of threatened and endangered species created by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
EXCERPT:
Almost none of the genera that have species averaging 0.4 inches long are threatened with extinction, But 23 percent of those that are 3.9 inches are threatened, 40 percent of those that are 39 inches are endangered and 86 percent of those that are 32.8 feet are vulnerable, Payne said.
These are species that are not extinct yet, but are on the respected Red List of threatened and endangered species created by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
11/6/16
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SEA CREATURES WHO EAT PLASTIC IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN?
OUR WORDS : PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN by Ivette Evangelista
EXCERPT: Sea creatures living in the Atlantic ecosystem tend to eat more plastic than having a healthy diet. A recent study in Nature, made by Chelea Rochman, an ecologist who specializes in Marine Ecology, reports that chemicals can be transferred into the fish. The study in the lab was split into three different groups: one received commercial fish feed, the second received 90% fish food and 10% clean plastic particles. The third group received 90% fish food and 10% plastic particles that had been floating in the San Diego Bay for three months. Researchers reported that the third group receiving polluted plastic had a greater concentration of plastic than the controlled diet group. Rochman suggests that “Both fish groups that ate plastic saw in increase in glycogen depletion,” which decreased the amount of glycogen in the liver of the fish. The ingestion of plastic caused the fish to experience stress because of the lack of protein.
EXCERPT: Sea creatures living in the Atlantic ecosystem tend to eat more plastic than having a healthy diet. A recent study in Nature, made by Chelea Rochman, an ecologist who specializes in Marine Ecology, reports that chemicals can be transferred into the fish. The study in the lab was split into three different groups: one received commercial fish feed, the second received 90% fish food and 10% clean plastic particles. The third group received 90% fish food and 10% plastic particles that had been floating in the San Diego Bay for three months. Researchers reported that the third group receiving polluted plastic had a greater concentration of plastic than the controlled diet group. Rochman suggests that “Both fish groups that ate plastic saw in increase in glycogen depletion,” which decreased the amount of glycogen in the liver of the fish. The ingestion of plastic caused the fish to experience stress because of the lack of protein.
11/4/16
SEA OF PLASTIC IN THE PACIFIC BIGGER THAN EVER!
THE GUARDIAN - GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH BIGGER THAN EVER
EXCERPT:
A reconnaissance flight taken in a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft found a vast clump of mainly plastic waste at the northern edge of what is known as the “great Pacific garbage patch," located between Hawaii and California.
The density of rubbish was several times higher than the Ocean Cleanup, a foundation part-funded by the Dutch government to rid the oceans of plastics, expected to find even at the heart of the patch, where most of the waste is concentrated.
EXCERPT:
A reconnaissance flight taken in a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft found a vast clump of mainly plastic waste at the northern edge of what is known as the “great Pacific garbage patch," located between Hawaii and California.
The density of rubbish was several times higher than the Ocean Cleanup, a foundation part-funded by the Dutch government to rid the oceans of plastics, expected to find even at the heart of the patch, where most of the waste is concentrated.
11/1/16
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