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Stories tagged “marine conservation”

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366-Foot Warship Now Teems With Life in Canada
Science

366-Foot Warship Now Teems With Life in Canada

Scuttled off Nanaimo in 1997, the destroyer escort HMCS Saskatchewan has become one of British Columbia's richest artificial reefs.

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Tasmania Has Lost 95% of Its Kelp — Divers Fix It
Science

Tasmania Has Lost 95% of Its Kelp — Divers Fix It

Warming seas and invasive sea urchins wiped out most of Tasmania's giant kelp forests. Now divers are hand-planting nursery-grown kelp to bring them back.

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Scientists Discover 1,121 New Marine Species in One Year
Science

Scientists Discover 1,121 New Marine Species in One Year

A global alliance of scientists catalogued 1,121 previously unknown ocean species in a single year — a ghost shark, glass-dwelling worms, and more.

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Offshore Wind Turbines Are Now Reefs for 11,500 Fish
Technology

Offshore Wind Turbines Are Now Reefs for 11,500 Fish

Divers counted 97 fish species thriving around wind turbine foundations off Taiwan, while 54 new foundations off New York are building a matching reef.

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Bluefin Tuna Return to English Waters After 60 Years
Human Achievements

Bluefin Tuna Return to English Waters After 60 Years

Atlantic bluefin tuna have been spotted off northeast England for the first time since the 1960s — a joyful sign that North Sea ecosystems are recovering.

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Live White Abalone Spotted in Channel Islands for First Time in 5 Years
Science

Live White Abalone Spotted in Channel Islands for First Time in 5 Years

NOAA divers surveying California's Channel Islands found a single live white abalone — the first wild sighting in five years of one of the most endangered marine animals on Earth.

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