They can get up to 15 feet long, weigh over 1500 pounds and are able to accelerate faster than a race car. They’re there and then… they’re just gone. But even bluefin can’t escape our appetite. Bluefin in the Atlantic are now on the brink of extinction due to overfishing. Unfortunately, the…
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Oral Hygiene, Turtle Style
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic
Opening, if not saying “ahh,” a sea turtle undergoes an oral cleaning. Volunteers swab turtle mouths with gauze pads and also employ a secret weapon—mayonnaise. The familiar condiment helps to break down oil around turtle mouths and eyes so that it can be more easily removed.
Scientists from a suite of agencies and conservation groups released the first group of rehabilitated sea turtles near Cedar Key, Florida, on August 18. Their future in the Gulf, like that of many other species impacted by the oil spill, remains unknown.
FLASHPOINT This image, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a solar flare early on Tuesday, the largest one observed in five years. Scientists say the bursts of radiation hurled by the solar blast were not in the direction of Earth. (Photo: NASA via the Telegraph)
In an essay here in the CNN Opinion section during the debt debate in Congress, Yale Law School professor Jack M. Balkin made a novel suggestion for resolving the problem at hand: Simply have the secretary of the Treasury order that two platinum coins, each with a face value of a trillion dollars, be minted. Instantly, the U.S. would have an extra $2 trillion to pay down the debt, just like that. The idea didn’t seem much more outlandish than the thought that the country was, in fact, $14 trillion in debt.
If the earth were about to be wiped out by an asteroid, DC pundits would spend their last days debating which party would be hurt more.
Even non-political, non-economic news is sad.
Three story fall to ice rink below kills a father on a shopping trip at the mall with his daughter. Read more…
When you see a tuna, think panda.
The bluefin tuna is now critically endangered to the point of extinction. Industrial overfishing, fueled by the voracious appetite for tuna in several parts of Asia, is killing off the remaining breeding populations. Act quickly to save what’s left. Don’t sell, buy or eat this endangered species. And please support the bluefin defence campaign. Operation Blue Rage, at seashepherd.org.
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