The decline in marine life may in some way be connected to all the shit, piss and bleach pumped in there every single day by everyone in the world, it has been claimed.

Scientists now suspect this might not be delicious.

The theory is still in its early stages, but some scientists suspect that fish are allergic bleaches, such as Domestos.

Dr Susan Traherne, from the Institute for Studies, said: “As yet, there is no definite causal link between the mass death of fish and the unrelenting Niagara of shit. It does seem like a strange coincidence but I’m not about to stake my academic reputation on it.”

She added: “It’s hard for a layman to grasp, but imagine you had a goldfish in a tank at home and you poured in a can of engine oil and then some fertilizer. And then you had a shit in it.  And then got everyone you knew to have a shit in it too.”

“You’d expect the goldfish to be annoyed, but cope with the minor chemical variations reasonably well.”

“But in the just over six thousand versions of this experiment we’ve performed, the goldfish has died every single time.”

“Now, maybe the fish died of natural causes. Maybe they were just very lazy fish and forgot to breathe. Or maybe the fish were killed by all the shit.”

“It’s simply too early to tell.”

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Two months ago, Junior was shunned by her mother and was on the brink of death, weighing just 40lbs and starved of company or affection.

Now, the albino seal pup is thriving and enjoying drawing in the crowds at Mablethorpe Seal sanctuary in Linconshire.

The nine-month-old pup has blood-red eyes and a milky white coat. It is believed her looks are the reason she was abandoned by her mother and became an outcast.

She was discovered by sanctuary owner Dennis Drew near Sutton-on Sea beach in March.
Ugly ducking: Junior the Albino seal was shunned for looking different. The pup was left to fend for herself by her mother.

Distinctive eyes: Junior’s blood-red eyes and milky coat have attracted visitors to the sanctuary, where she has been recuperating.

Thriving: Junior is much stronger than when Mr Drew found her two months ago. She is expected to be ready to be released into the wild by the end of the year

Mr Drew said: ‘Because they look so remarkably different, albinos do tend to get rejected, and can find it a real struggle to survive on their own.

Junior was almost certainly abandoned by her mother because she was considered ugly.

We decided to take her in. All we do is put her on a crate and then place her in the back of the van.

We had to wrap her in a towel and be very careful because these seals can bite from time-to-time.

‘I am just grateful we found her because she is so happy here playing with the other pups.’

Zoological Society of London marine conservationist Dr. Stephen Mowat said: ‘Albino harbour seals are an extremely rare sight.

It is likely this individual was abandoned by its mother as its fur colour differs from the usual grey spotted appearance of harbour seal pups, which also have black eyes.

Due to their lack of pigmentation, albino seals may face additional challenges in the wild, such as vision problems and sensitivity to sunlight, making them more susceptible to predation.’
Different: Junior was shunned by her mother because she was considered ugly. Her chances of survival without her mother were very low.

Going from strength to strength: The albino pup has doubled in weight and now interacts well with other pups

Just two months after arriving at the centre, Junior now weighs a healthy 80lbs and could be released back into the wild by the end of the year.

Dennis said: ‘If it is possible, we always release them back into the wild where they can fend for themselves.

Once this one’s put a bit of weight on she will be fine out there.

They do a travel about a bit, so I doubt she will stay here. It would be great to see her down the beach in future though.’

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Australian solar power has reached a major milestone with the number of residential systems installed in the country surpassing a million in total.

Figures from the Clean Energy Regulator indicate that as of March, over a million Australia homes had been equipped with solar power panels on their roofs, providing power to around 2.5 million Australians as well as savings on electricity bills amounting to approximately half a billion dollars.

The number of home solar power systems in Australia is all the more remarkable given the country’s modest population size, and the nascent state of the market a few short years ago.

Clean Energy Council chief executive David Green pointed to the stunning increase in residential solar systems that Australian has witnessed in just the past half decade.

“It is remarkable when you think that just five years ago in 2008 there were only about 20,000 systems installed across the entire country,” he said.

The 2.5 million Australians currently residing in homes equipped with solar power comprise over 10 per cent of the country’s total population, and are more populous than the entire state of Western Australia.

Green said residential solar power has been embraced by Australians from disparate segments of society, prompted by increases in the cost of energy as much as concern for the environment.

“People from all walks of life have been installing solar as a way of protecting themselves from power price pain over the long term,” he said.

“As consumers take back control of their power bills through cleaner, smart energy technology, solar power is clearly something that has been at the forefront of their minds.”

The sector’s growth has surged in tandem with increasing demand, and Green hopes solar panels will become characteristic features of Australian households in the near future.

“The solar industry currently employs over 8,000 Australians, and has led to billions of dollars in investment behind Australia’s 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target,” he said.

“Solar is the hills hoist of the 21st century.”

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Preserving our oceans and waterways is something we have to do now. Without action now, our children and future generations will not have the beauty that is this world’s water. It’s up to us, and I applaud this group for their call to action!
Sally Reuther, CEO
Clean eMarine Americas

19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,2500,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans.

The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.

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MIAMI, March 11 (Reuters) – A red tide algae bloom has killed a record 174 manatees so far this year off Florida’s southwest Gulf Coast, authorities said on Monday.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it was the highest number of red-tide-related manatee deaths in any single calendar year.

The previous record was set in 1996 when red tide killed at least 149 manatees, mostly in March and April.

The Florida manatee, averaging 10 feet (3 metres) long and 1,000 pounds (454 kg), has long hovered on the edge of extinction and it is covered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Florida officials said 81 of the herbivorous marine mammals died last year and that 205 had died of all causes so far in 2013.

The one-cell organism that causes red tide releases a toxin when it dies, sickening manatees.

“Signs that a manatee is affected by red tide include a lack of coordination and stability in the water, muscle twitches or seizures and difficulty lifting its head to breathe,” the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a statement.

It said the current red tide off Florida’s southwest coast had first been detected in September.

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Brusspup’s latest video explores what happens when a stream of water is exposed to an audio speaker producing a loud 24hz sine wave.

The camera frame rate has been adjusted to the match the vibration of the air (so, 24fps) thus creating … magic zigzagging water.

Brusspup did a similar experiment last year where it looked as if the water was flowing in reverse.

Makes you think about all the nosie we’re making … even in our beings which are around 90% water!

Story : This is Colossal

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According to a news report on Chinese media, the hottest new fad in China involves selling a live fish, or a Brazilian turtle or a young giant salamander sealed up in airtight plastic bags as key rings. Each packet is about 7 centimeters in length and filled with colored water along with the imprisoned animal.

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The street vendors claim the water is nutrient rich, but they are not. Without oxygen and food the animals get to live for only a few days, if they are lucky. The most depressing part is that the whole thing is legal.

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The final episode of Hugh’s Fish Fight: Save Our Seas inspired over 38,000 tweets following Fearnley-Whittingstall’s on-screen call-to-action to get viewers to tweet some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets and challenge their relationships with fisheries that may practice potentially harmful or unsustainable fishing tactics.

Fearnley-Whittingstall had been unable to obtain on camera interviews with Tesco, Morrisons, and Cooperative on the issue. To galvanise support for his campaign, Hugh asked viewers before the ad break, “Well they won’t talk to me, maybe they’ll talk to you—tweet them now.” Viewers were then encouraged to tweet at the supermarkets’ official Twitter handles: @morrisonsnews, @UKtesco and @co-operativefood.

Given the significant response, Keo Digital along with Telescope, was able to create a live-tweet storm over the two-minute break. The Twitter interaction was then presented to viewers live graphically in the next part of the programme.

Broken down, the Twitter response count at tx was 16,139 and by the end of the programme reached 32,000 tweets. After the transmission on Channel 4 + 1 it rose to 37,000. As of 11:50 am on Friday 1st March over 38,000 had tweeted the supermarkets.

Adam Gee, Channel 4 Multi-Platform commissioning editor says, “Fish Fight represents the sweet spot of multiplatform – the TV prompts understandable anger and the digital means now you can do something about it. What Hugh has highlighted in the show are really significant problems around the future sustainability of our oceans, the kind of challenges that sit at the heart of Channel 4’s remit.”

Simon Deverell, creative director, Keo Digital adds, “Knitting live opinion and public emotion directly back to the broadcast stream was our challenge. Working with Telescope, Twitter and Channel4 we achieved exactly that, we added an element of ‘live’ to a prerecorded program and in turn, made Fish Fight a live experience,”

“Twitter’s most powerful instigator continues to be television,” says Jason George, ceo of Telescope. “However, Twitter at its most actualizing continues to be about social good. This initiative proved those two powers can be merged.”

Story : Televisual

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It looks like this year’s East Coast grey seal hunt season might have already fizzled out due to a lack of markets.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada set February 28 as the official opening date, but Robert Courtenay, a spokesperson for Cape Breton sealers, told the Cape Breton Post on opening day: “We had to call everything off, so it doesn’t look good. I don’t think there will be anything going.”

Courtenay said one buyer wanted a few hundred grey seals but couldn’t wait the necessary amount of time to deal with regulatory arrangements and paperwork.

In a release, Michelle Cliffe, Canadian spokesperson for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said: “We are relieved that…the grey seal hunt for 2013 will not proceed. This is the second year in a row that lack of domestic and global demand for seal products has resulted in no hunt, clearly showing that the sealing industry is dying.”

Cliffe also stated that it appears that an unrelated proposed grey-seal cull on Sable Island is “off the table”.

Last year, only about eight grey seals died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during a hunt that normally has a quota of more than 1,000 of the marine mammals. No animals were killed in 2012 on Cape Breton’s rocky Hay Island, a major killing ground for the seal hunters. Hay Island is off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and is part of the protected Scaterie Island Wilderness Area.

Courtenay told CBC News in March 2012: “Some years we have taken up to 1,500 animals out of that area.”

In January, Taiwan banned all marine-mammal products. At the time, that country was the world’s fourth-largest consumer of such goods. A Canada-China trade agreement that would allow export of edible seal products has not been ratified. In a January 2012 statement released prior to his China trip, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said: “Our government will continue to vigorously defend this humane and highly regulated [seal] industry and to seek new international markets for Canadian seal products, including China.”

Previously, the European Union, the United States, Mexico, and the Russian Federation have banned seal products.

According to the Humane Society International, Canadian seal processors admitted in 2010 that they have hundreds of thousands of seal furs stockpiled because they are unable to find buyers.

Story : Wild Wolf Pack

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