Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Ali Perkins
Dani Cooper Tuesday, 10 March 2009 Cruising: A post-hatchling loggerhead turtle. Queensland researchers have found the turtle makes a journey across the Pacific Ocean after hatching (Source: Dr Col Limpus/Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland) A marine biologist has helped fill in the so-called lost years of Australia’s loggerhead turtles by discovering they are using ocean currents [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Ali Perkins
Posted Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:27am AEDT On the rise: Scientists are warning of higher-than-expected rises in sea levels due to climate change. (Reuters/University of Colorado: Konrad Steffen) The world’s top climate change scientists meeting in Denmark say global sea levels could rise by twice as much as previously thought. The projection is based on [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Ali Perkins
Cameron takes a picture of a Snapper in the Goat Island Marine Reserve at Fresher’s Weekend. More than two decades after marine biologist Bill Ballantine first started promoting the idea that 10 percent of New Zealand’s waters should be set aside as no-take marine areas, the country’s 30-plus marine reserves account for just 0.3 percent [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Kathryn
If you haven’t been to the Poor Knights before, this is your chance while the water’s still warm and clear. Since being lauded by the late Jacques Cousteau as one of the top 10 dive sites in the world, the Poor Knights have become New Zealand’s most well known diving location. The Poor Knights Islands [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Ali Perkins
Skilled divers can blow bubbles that grow as they go up, to end in an elegant swirl. This article will show you how to do it safely. With practice, you’ll produce a series of rings, receiving silent but enthusiastic applause from spectators underwater or on the surface. Find out how on wikiHow.
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