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Great white sharks are overheating 🌊 We must stop eating wild ocean animals!

🌊 We must stop eating wild ocean animals, including open‑pen "farmed" saltwater fish such as salmon.
https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/exploring-underbelly-chiles-salmon-farming-industry

If you’re not urgently dependent on seafood for survival, simply switch to other options such land / closed‑system aquaculture or plant based solutions.

I'm not saying everybody needs to become a vegan/vegetarian right now, that is up to each individual, but we should avoid the worst of the worst.

That is, if we want to at least keep a few of the giants of the seas alive.
🦈🐳🦑🐠🐟🐡🐬🦑🪸🦐

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u/MadeInDex-org — 2 days ago
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Exploring a Scripps Pier piling with Lobsters and Sea Stars.

OceanEarthGreen.com

u/OceanEarthGreen — 4 days ago
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The Moment of a Dream, oils on canvas by me

The water around feels endless, yet calm, holding them in a moment that seems untouched by time. From the blue, an orca approaches, slow, effortless, its presence vast but gentle, to greet the little girl who once dreamt of a moment such

The orca reaches out, and the distance between little girl and giant disappears into something simple and unspoken. Light filters through the water above, soft and distant, as if this moment exists somewhere just outside the waking world.

For a brief second, it feels like something magical, impossible to the eyes, but with a quiet certainty, it happens. As if the ocean had been holding it all along, waiting for the moment it could be felt

u/sheldonboadita — 6 days ago
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so large it is home to dozens of species of life, complicating cleanup efforts

earth.com
u/esporx — 8 days ago
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What is this?

I was walking on the beach in monaco when i found several of these weird thingd on the beach. They were quite solid but also easy to squish and when i did a little moisture splashed out. Are these some kind of jellyfish like sea animals?

u/Fishfreak2013 — 5 days ago
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A big pieceof ice, extending deep below the water’s surface, breaks off from a glacier and is propelled about 200 feet (61 meters) into the air because its density is lower than that of seawater.

u/Powerful_Cabinet_341 — 17 days ago
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Emperor Penguins - Lego Creation

Hello everyone. I made this LEGO creation of Emperor penguins, since penguins are one of my favorite animals in the entire world! I'm pitching it to Lego to give this a chance to become an official set everyone can enjoy ❤️ On Lego Ideas, everyone can vote for projects they'd like to see made.

If you'd like, you can check out the project on Lego Ideas. Thanks and hope you enjoy!

u/firecracker_lego — 14 days ago
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Is rain from the ocean fresh or salty?

I understand rain forms when water sticks to a nucleus, usually dust. But over the ocean rain forms from salt particles. Would that make rain salt water?

I tried looking it up and found a site (1) that says a nucleus is 1/100th the size of the droplet. That sounds to me salt makes up 1% of the droplet. I also read that in order for water to be fresh in needs to have at most 0.5 parts per thousand of salt (2) so salt needs to be 0.05% of water.

That sounds like ocean rain is salty, does that mean you can't count on rain to replenish your water supplies?

SOURCES

  1. https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/how-clouds-form

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_water

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u/ilikemyprivacytbt — 16 days ago