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☆ Opinion: North Atlantic right whales are running out of time
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Gib Brogan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Video Ad Feedback Protecting whales from one of their biggest threats 03:59 - Source: CNNNorth Atlantic right whales and speeding boats just don’t mix. When a boat strikes a North Atlantic right whale, it can cause traumatic injuries and even death. Scientists estimate the species can only recover if less than one North Atlantic right whale dies per year from these human causes. Over time, it’s become clear that even smaller boats can kill North Atlantic right whales. The North Atlantic right whales are running out of time.

Persons: Gib Brogan, it’s, NOAA’s Organizations: CNN, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, NOAA Fisheries, Twitter, Facebook, Georges Bank, Day, Labor Locations: Oceana, Atlantic, East Coast, United States, Canada, New England, Florida, Nantucket

☆ The CEO of a nonprofit that gathers sound to catch illegal activity in the rainforest says 5G technology can get high-quality audio into the hands of those who need it — fast
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Sarah Sloat | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Bourhan Yassin became the CEO of Rainforest Connection in 2022 after years of working in tech. Rainforest Connection gets a tech upgradeA few years ago, Rainforest Connection switched from cellphones to a custom-made device called the Guardian. To access a 3G or 4G signal, Rainforest Connection points the Guardian's antennas toward the cellphone tower of a nearby town. For example, Rainforest Connection has previously collaborated in Puerto Rico with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where 5G coverage is expanding. Before he worked with Rainforest Connection, Yassin said he measured success through metrics such as funding.

Persons: Bourhan Yassin, Yassin, —, — Yassin, we've Organizations: Rainforest Connection, Guardian, Google, Connection, Guardian ., US Fish and Wildlife Service, Rainforest Locations: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Kenya, Brazil, Tanzania, Indonesia, Ecuador, Poland, Puerto Rico

☆ Videos show sea otters stealing surfboards in California as people joke they've joined the 'orca uprising'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sea otters in California are stealing people's surfboards, according to multiple reports. At one point, the sea otter flips the board on its front and then starts tearing it up with its teeth. "Since then, in the past five days now, there's been three more incidents of it," Woodward told KGO. "The otters have joined the war," one person tweeted, while another tweeted: "Sea Otters joining the Orca uprising." "They're actually pretty aggressive animals," San José State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Professor David Ebert told KGO.

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☆ They Caught the Fish, but the $3.5 Million Prize Got Away
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Brandon Sneed | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The first boat to bring in a marlin weighing more than 500 pounds would win the Fabulous Fisherman prize, worth $739,500. The prize for catching the biggest marlin overall was $2,769,400. The potential haul, then, was $3.5 million if you won both prizes. Boats had to radio in to tournament officials when they had a fish on the line. They got it right up to the boat, then the line snapped and the fish was gone.

Persons: McCoy, Scooter Organizations: Fisherman, Morehead City, Atlantic Locations: Morehead

☆ This parasitic 'vampire fish' that has circular rows of teeth and sucks the blood out of its hosts is making a comeback in the Great Lakes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sea lampreys, also known as "vampire fish," are a highly invasive species in the Great Lakes. The pandemic interrupted population management of the sea lampreys across the lakes. A lake trout from Lake Superior that was bitten by a sea lamprey. The fishery commission touts on its website that sea lamprey populations have been reduced by 90% "in most areas of the Great Lakes." Now, fishery managers say the population of the parasitic fish has ticked up across the Great Lakes, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Persons: —, Jerry Holt Organizations: Service, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Wired, Star Tribune, Getty, Fishery Commission, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Fisheries, Oceans, Street Journal, Undark Magazine Locations: Great, Welland, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Oceans Canada

☆ Malta, Land of Knights, Sailors and Rainbow Flags
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Alexander Lobrano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Knowing nothing about Maltese food, I assumed it would be a variation on the fare of nearby Sicily. “Our food is a reflection of all of the peoples who ruled us,” he said, explaining that Malta has one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cuisines. Baroque masterworks and neon-lit nightlifeMalta is only 122 square miles, so 72 hours had seemed like an adequate amount of time to explore. I decided to check out the main island first, and then Valletta itself after that. The delightful Anna Grech Sant, a local guide, offered an abbreviated but fascinating lesson in Maltese history, richly seasoned with memorable trivia.

Persons: ruddy, bouillon, Brincat, ”, Anna Grech Sant Organizations: British Navy Locations: Sicily, Malta, Libya, India, Northern Europe, Bolognese, Gozo, Valletta

WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Thursday that granting U.S. access to Philippine military bases was a defensive step that would be "useful" if China attacked Taiwan. Marcos told Reuters the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) reached with the United States in 2014 was originally conceived to improve disaster responses. Marcos said Washington "has not proposed any kind of action for the Philippines in terms of taking part in the defense of Taiwan." Biden said on Monday that the U.S. commitment to the defense of its ally was "ironclad," including in the South China Sea, and that the guidelines issued on Wednesday laid out treaty commitments if either side were attacked in the South China Sea. He said the patrols would help preserve freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, where China has a growing military presence.

☆ Why Does This Cannibalistic Fish Keep Washing Ashore?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Lauren Mccarthy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For hundreds of years, a strange species of fish with long fanglike teeth that eats its own kind and spends most of its time at the bottom of the ocean has somehow found its way to the shores of the West Coast. The latest appearance by a lancetfish, as the species is known, was on a beach in Oregon, state officials said Monday, prompting more speculation about why the deep-sea creature occasionally surfaces on land. Lancetfish are obscure in part because they have no commercial appeal — meaning that they don’t taste good. The silvery and gelatinous fish have a “scientific name translates to something like scaleless lizard or scaleless dragon,” and they look the part, said Elan Portner, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, one place where lancetfish have been found washed ashore. Lancetfish also “migrate as far north as subarctic areas like Alaska’s Bering Sea to feed,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

CNN —Environmental groups are suing the Federal Aviation Administration in federal court over SpaceX’s launch of its massive Starship rocket last month. ‘All kinds of environmental harm’Ahead of the launch on April 20, the FAA issued a finding that the launch would have no significant impact on its surrounding environment. Margolis told CNN that the SpaceX explosion proves the groups’ legal argument that the FAA erred in its decision-making. The FAA’s roleThe FAA licenses commercial rocket launches and gave the green light for the SpaceX launch attempt after more than a year of back-and-forth. When asked about potential legal backlash from environmental groups on Saturday, Musk was defiant.

In the test mission, SpaceX’s Starship launched toward space atop a Super Heavy rocket booster. That could be the determining factor in how long it takes the company to get a new Starship on the launch pad. Such investigations are routine and have taken place after previous — but smaller-scale — Starship test launches in South Texas. Joe Skipper/ReutersSpaceX is not permitted to make another launch attempt of a Starship vehicle until that review is complete. NASAThe US space agency was not directly involved in the Starship flight test, but it has a major stake in Starship’s overall success.

☆ Photos show SpaceX's Starship rocket blew a crater into its launchpad and flung concrete chunks hundreds of feet during liftoff
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

SpaceX's Starship blew a huge hole in its launchpad during takeoff last week and scattered debris. Members of the public walk through a debris field around the Starship launchpad at SpaceX's facilities near Boca Chica, Texas. It was also missing a water-deluge system, which helps further reduce energy blast around the launch site during liftoff. Rocks and other debris fly around remote cameras as SpaceX’s Starship lifts off atop its Super Heavy booster for the first time. Last week's flight was the first time SpaceX launched a Starship rocket on top of it its Super Heavy booster.

☆ Japan nuclear disaster: Fukushima's fishing industry fears Tokyo's next move may finish it off
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Emiko Jozuka Krystina Shveda Junko Ogura Marc Stewart Daniel Campisi | Emiko Jozuka | Krystina Shveda | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Ocean currents have since dispersed the contaminated water enough that radioactive Cesium is nearly undetectable in fish from Fukushima prefecture. A year before the 2011 disaster, government data shows Fukushima’s coastal fishing industry landed catches worth around $69 million. At the same time, ground and rainwater have leaked in, creating more radioactive wastewater that now needs to be stored and treated. This isotope is radioactive tritium, and the scientific community is divided on the risk its dissemination carries. He argues TEPCO should build more storage tanks to allow for the decay of the radioactive tritium, which has a half-life of 12.3 years.

☆ 20-pound rodents with big orange teeth, rat-like tails, and no necks are wreaking havoc in the US and landing on 'most unwanted' lists
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The aquatic rodents has since spread, destroying wetlands and threatening flood infrastructure. The orange color of their teeth, a trait they share with beavers, comes from having a special, strong enamel that includes iron. The rodents often carry pathogens and parasites that can contaminate water supplies and potentially spread to humans. As of November 2022, 3,330 nutria have been removed from California, according to state wildlife officials. Wildlife officials across the country encourage the public to report nutria sightings to their local agencies to aid in management and eradication efforts.

First Nations ice fishermen risk going out on ice as climate change affects the quality of the ice. He blames climate change for the unseasonal weather and worries ice fishing season will only get shorter in future. "People tell us across the board they would like more traditional food but there are barriers, and one of them is climate change," Batal said. Families in communities like Kitigan Zibi wind up spending more in grocery stores to supplement their diet. Reporting by Blair Gable in Kitigan Zibi and Nia Williams in British Columbia Editing by Denny Thomas and Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Bats that help make tequila are endangered. Here's how climate change is coming for your margarita.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Mexican long-nosed bat is a key pollinator for the plant used to make tequila. The Mexican long-nosed bat, key to growing Weber Azul, is facing extinction. Native to Mexico and the Southeastern US, the Mexican long-nosed bat migrates between the two regions annually, according to New Mexico radio station KRQE. In the US, the bat is facing a lack of habitat, roost sites, and food, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. To combat the threats facing the long-nosed bat, the Fish and Wildlife Service released a draft plan last month to save the endangered species.

☆ 6 climate wins from 2022 that are worth celebrating
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Sweeping climate legislation passed, climate candidates won, and animals got important protections. Here are six of the year's highlights in climate progress, according to experts. But through it all, there was encouraging progress on climate that's worth celebrating. Peter B. de Menocal, president of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told Insider that the event featured the first-ever Ocean Pavilion. "I want to invite other Indigenous communities in Ecuador and the world to join these collective fights happening in Amazonia," Lucitante previously told Insider.

☆ Abandoned Greek airport to be transformed into a 600-acre coastal park
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Tegel Projekt GmbH/Atelier Loidl Kai Tak International Airport, Hong Kong -- With a runway that protruded into the sea, Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong once had one of the most arresting approaches in the world. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Hellinikon International Airport, Athens, Greece -- Hellinikon was once the only international airport in Athens, Greece, before Hellinikon was once the only international airport in Athens, Greece, before closing down in 2001 . Developer LAMDA is looking to complete the first phase of construction in 2025 courtesy LAMDA Development Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado -- A photo of Stapleton International Airport from 1963. The grounds of the old airport became the 125-hectare (309-acre) Quito replaced its main airport with another bearing the same name. RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Downsview Airport, Toronto -- Downsview Airport in north Toronto was once a Canadian Air Force base.

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☆ Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket site expansion coincides with a decline in bird numbers in the local area, investigators say
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-04 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

SpaceX's expansion of its Texas rocket site correlates with falling bird numbers, officials say. SpaceX wants to expand the site with another launch and landing pad ahead of a Starship rocket launch. Elon Musk's space company wants to expand its Texas rocket site, Starbase, by adding a second launch and landing pad where the company's huge Starship rocket can lift off from. The wildlife agency's letter was part of the FAA's environmental review of SpaceX's plans at its Boca Chica rocket launch site. SpaceX can only carry out orbital launches of the Starship rocket once the FAA finishes its assessment and gives the company the green light.

☆ Victoria Evans breaks the world record for fastest female solo row across the Atlantic Ocean
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Ben Church Cnn Video Produced Amy Li | Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —With nothing but her small boat for company, British lawyer Victoria Evans battled high winds, big waves and sleep deprivation to record the fastest female solo row across the Atlantic Ocean. Despite experiencing extreme conditions and encountering multiple problems along the way, Evans broke the previous world record by over eight days. So it was so, so intense,” said Evans, who was inspired to tackle crossing the Atlantic after climbing Mont Blanc in 2017. READ: Vegan endurance athlete Robbie Balenger on his spiritual connection with runningEvans broke the record for the fastest solo female crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. READ: Jasmine Harrison delights in Atlantic Ocean world record rowAdvocating for women in sportAdmitting she wasn’t particularly sporty as a child, Evans says her 15-year-old self would never have believed she was capable of setting such a record.

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

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