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Animal movement is key to sea life - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazingPlanet ... - 1 views

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  • whales and other marine animals may play a major role in the worldwide transport of nutrients — from the cold, rich waters of the deep to the warm, nutrient-poor surface. Without these key ingredients, much marine life would cease to exist.
  • A study published in July in the journal Biogeosciences Discussions estimated that a mere 80 sperm whales that live near Hawaii transport 1,100 tons (1 million kilograms) of nitrogen per year with the movement of their massive bodies through a boundary called the pycnocline, below which it is too dark for light-loving plants — the base of much of the ocean food chain — to survive.
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Commission aims to draw attention to deteriorating oceans - SciDev.Net - 0 views

www.scidev.net/...o-deteriorating-oceans--1.html Pavan Sukhdev ocean marine Global Ocean Commission
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  • Pavan Sukhdev, head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative and lead author of the 2010 Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study, tells Scidev.Net that the commission's report will in part be aimed at businesses preparing to exploit the high seas with new technologies.
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Rio+20 Negotiators Report 'Progress,' NGOs Call It 'Weak' - 0 views

www.ens-newswire.com/...2012-06-18-01.html Rio+20 oceans marine biodiversity food water energy fisheries civil society UNEP capitalism women youth
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  • More than 55,000 people from around the world and all walks of life are attending the summit. Some 130 world leaders are expected to participate in three-days of high-level talks opening June 20 that will result in a outcome document on sustainable development.
  • Rio+20 marks the 20th anniversary of the original UN Earth Summit in Rio, where countries agreed to a roadmap for environmental protection, economic growth, and social equity known as Agenda 21.
  • "The planet is running out of time - yet leaders are answering with weak words that don't even come close to the kind of commitments we need to ensure people everywhere have access to clean water, food, and energy," said Jim Leape, director general of WWF International.
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  • "the inter-linkages between food, water and energy,"
  • ocean protection
  • "Organizations are working to have strong text adopted on sustainable fisheries and small islands developing states, on really tackling illegal fishing, and a strong text on fisheries subsidies," she told reporters last week. "There's a good chance on there will be something on a high seas legal framework to protect areas of the high seas that are beyond national jurisdictions," she said. "Only the United States and Russia are opposed."
  • On Saturday, more than 80 countries, civil society groups, private companies and international organizations declared their support for the new Global Partnership for Oceans
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  • While fostering a global green economy has been a key goal of the UN Environment Programme for Rio+20, thousands of women this morning held a march in protest of the green economy, saying it does not go far enough and relies on the exploitation of women.
  • capitalism that values only what can be bought and sold.
  • youth delegates appeared with duct tape over their mouths to dramatize their request that the United Nations establish a high commissioner for future generations.
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"Horribly mutated" seafood found in Gulf Coast, likely caused by BP spill - 0 views

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  • Fishermen are finding fish with tumors on their heads, fish with missing eyeballs, fish with babies still attached to their bodies, and fish "with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills." 
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    Fishermen are finding fish with tumors on their heads, fish with missing eyeballs, fish with babies still attached to their bodies, and fish "with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills."
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