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charl08
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I don't usually pick up books about the environment, but this was a fascinating look at our changing oceans.

A thanks to the Women's Prize for NF as I wouldn't have picked it up otherwise!

BookmarkTavern Love a book with a map! ❤️ 3w
squirrelbrain I listened to this - really enjoyed it! 3w
charl08 @BookmarkTavern me too - they are gorgeous endpapers. 2w
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...efforts are already underway to clean up the plastic debris floating in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organisation, was founded in 2013 by a then-teenage entrepreneur, Boylan Slat, from the Netherlands. Outraged by disastrous plastic pollution... began sending out ships towing U-shaped barriers to skim floating plastic from the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
https://theoceancleanup.com/

TieDyeDude I love this group. They are doing great work. I've been following them for years 3w
charl08 @TieDyeDude it was a relief to read about some good work in this book of (mostly) awful news about the ocean 3w
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Elsewhere, coral species are gathered up, and their cells, sperm, and eggs are frozen. It's a similar scheme to seed banks, which aim to preserve all the world's plants, so people in the future can use them to breed the crops they need or replant species that are lost from the wild. Coral DNA is also being sequenced and archived to preserve the genetic codes that would be lost forever if those species went extinct.

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The puffadder shyshark lives on coasts around the tip of South Africa. They are small and slender, brown with rusty orange saddles resembling the markings on their namesake, the puffadder snake. When disturbed, these sharks curl up in a tight circle and hide their eyes with their tails....
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(Also known as Happy Eddie...
https://saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/species/puffadder-shyshark)