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The World’s New ‘Water Parks’
Posted by Intelligent Travel on February 11, 2013 
Less than three percent. That’s the portion of the world’s oceans now set aside for conservation — a small safety net that ecologists are working to increase. Joining a wave of new marine reserves, Australia recently designated 382,000 square miles in the Coral Sea to preserve an area of fish-haloed seamounts, turtle nesting areas, and…
On Board Mission Blue
Posted by Janelle Nanos on April 8, 2010 When the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference offered it’s annual prize to National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle, it also came with a wish. TED said Earle could ask for anything and they’d help to make it happen. Earle, a renown oceanographer, wished for global network of protected marine areas. “I wish you would use all…
What Do We Want? Oceans! When Do We Want Them? Now!
Posted by Janelle Nanos on April 8, 2009 What would the oceans look like if humans never existed? Soon we may find out. Last week, National Geographic launched an expedition to some of the world’s most isolated waters in the South Pacific. Departing from Tahiti, the group will explore and document the islands and atolls of the southern Line Islands, which are largely…
