My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
SYLVIA EARLEThe end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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