Category: Nature
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Oceans of Garbage – our seas are a mess
A graphic created by Masters Degree Created by: MastersDegree.net, thanks Meika!
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Unsure about a swimming hole’s water quality? Just follow the flies!
Interesting way of judging water quality, courtesy of Wired via Lifehacker. There are more scientific ways too in . “Stoneflies (Order Plecoptera), Mayflies (Order Ephemeroptera) and Caddisfly (Order Tricoptera) are as suitable swimming pals as dolphins. Trout fishermen have been using these species as an indicator of good fishing for ages. These insects need healthy…
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Boy survives mile-long ride in storm drain during floods
Wow, read Nothing To Do With Arbroath An 8-year-old boy survived being swept into a Minnesota drain tunnel filled with rushing water and surfaced in a creek about a mile away. While he was under, it was his mother that was on his mind. “Mom, I thought I lost you,” Kenny Markiewicz told his mother,…
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Sébastien Murat, first man to dive to 150m on empty lungs
That sound mighty uncomfortable, Séb ‘The Sub’ Murat is preparing for his attempt to set a World Record in Free Deep Diving, using a revolutionary technique based on the instinctive behaviour of seals, can he become the deepest man on Earth? “To merely plunge toward a number without testing the waters and obtaining all the…
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Aww, dog wants to play with penguin
“Theirs was a forbidden love, separated by the speciesist rules of society and a glass wall. It was not to be.” Via Neatorama
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Scientists to strap cameras to Hawaiian seals
With local fishermen blaming the endangered Hawaiian monk seals for stealing their catch, government scientists plan to glue submersible cameras onto the seals’ backs, using the footage to prove to fishermen the animals are not harming their way of life, maybe even ending up on reality TV. With the image quality of rugged action cameras…
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Behold, 13 dogs surfing on one board
It is official, if these dogs can surf and you not, then you are a klutz. World record attempt apparently later today, via Arbroath
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David Blaine “dressed for dinner” with a great white
Behold the illusionist / endurance artist David Blaine swimming with great whites all dressed up. An illusion? Via Huffington Post