Speak Up for the Blue on art and the ocean.The Gam (conversations from the ocean-podcasting world) Government Climate Report Lays Out How Screwed We Are If We Don’t Act Now.Meanwhile: The Trump Administration’s Attempt to Bury a New Climate Report on Black Friday Totally Backfired.These interconnected systems are increasingly vulnerable to cascading impacts that are often difficult to predict, threatening essential services within and beyond the Nation’s borders. The Fourth National Climate Assessment is out and it is grim.Ĭlimate change affects the natural, built, and social systems we rely on individually and through their connections to one another.Some dudes are tagging along, too.įlotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
Friend of the blog and submarine legend Erika Bergman is leading an expedition to Belize’s Blue Hole! Follow along as she maps this unique ocean feature: Belize Blue Hole 2018.Read More “We’re in the midst of a sea change in who has access to the core tools of marine scientific research,” Weekly Salvage: November 11, 2019 You can help support DomSetCO by donating to our campaign to build the Rosalie Conservation Center, a hybrid rum distillery, fish hatchery, and conservation center in Dominica. This window to the turtle’s brain serves as a rudimentary third eye which can sense how light changes.
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On the top of their heads is a translucent patch of skin directly above the pineal gland. Leatherbacks are exceptionally sensitive to light. Protecting sea turtle nests and nesting sea turtles, particularly the massive, primordial leatherback sea turtle, is a core mission of the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (DomSetCO). Light pollution is such a serious problem for sea turtle survival, that many municipalities which host turtle nesting beaches ban the use of superfluous lighting during nesting season. This becomes a huge problem when the beach is littered with the pollution of artificial lights, leading hatchlings away from the sea and towards streets, resorts, and beachfront bars. To find their way back to the sea, sea turtle hatchlings emerge from their nests in the darkness and track light cues on the horizon, tracking the glow of starlight on waves. But their evolutionary foray onto land along with the rest of the tetrapods (a move largely regarded as a mistake by most extant species) left them with one one critical vulnerability: they have to return to land to lay their eggs, and their hatchlings must survive a grueling march to the sea within minutes of emerging into the world. These giant marine reptiles have been chilling out in the ocean for over 100 million years, largely unchanged. Sea turtles, in case you didn’t know, are pretty great.
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