OCEANOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE : SO MANY INTERESTING ARTICLES!

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Here's a sampling of current titles!

France's 'lacklustre' bottom trawling plans "a missed opportunity"

UK government claims "overdue bottom trawling ban" will benefit all

Offshore oil and gas is threatening marine life "at every step"

Samoa protects 30% of its ocean with new marine spatial plan

Hot limpets: Humble shellfish harbour climate change secret

Siren here:  TODAY DO ONE THING THAT WILL HELP PRESERVE OUR OCEANS AND THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS THAT LIVE IN THEM!

MCMURDO OCEANOGRAPHIC OBSERVATORY - ANTARCTICA LIVE UNDERWATER SOUNDS

DISCOVER MAGAZINE - MCMURDO GET'S MAJOR OVERHAUL by Roni Dengler

A hundred or so buildings will be demolished and six new buildings will be built.  This article shows renderings of the buildings to be built.

SEA MONSTER CARCASS PROVES TO BE WHALE

DISCOVERY COM - SEA MONSTER IS WHALE
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A marine biologist soon identified the remains as a killer whale, in part because of its distinctive flipper. The mystery was solved, but it’s not the first time an animal’s carcass has been mistaken for a monster. In fact, New Zealand is one of the most common places in the world — along with Newfoundland, Canada and Florida — for such “sea monsters” to appear. THIS LINK HAS OTHER LINKS TO LEAD YOU TO SEA MONSTER AND BLOB INFO!

PILOT WHALES BEACHED ON FAREWELL SPIT NEW ZEALAND

Farewell Spit is another New Zealand Beach where whales, this time 99 of them, beached themselves. This is the news as of January 26th, written by Dominique Schwartz, of ABC news.

The animals are being put down (euthanized) because rescuers cannot get them to move. About 17 of them made it back to the sea. 33 of them tried but re-beached themselves elsewhere.

DO WHALES BEACH THEMSELVES TO COMMIT SUICIDE : 61 BEACHED IN NEW ZEALAND

Brian Palmer of the site Slate, has done a fine job of writing about the 61 whales who beached themselves on Opoutere Beach in New Zealand last November. You may have been watching the news about other whales that have beached themselves. Usually whale loving volunteers show up to drench them with water, to try and keep them alive until the tide comes in. Once beached it is very difficult to move a whale. Even the whale has trouble moving on land. It's not their natural environment.

"Is suicide a thing in the animal kingdom?
Sort of. There is plenty of evidence that animals engage in self-destructive behavior."

This article focuses on the science...