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The Ocean Clean-up Project Completes this Year’s First Extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Mar 221 min read

The Ocean Clean-up Project Completes this Year’s First Extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

An article posted on LinkedIn by The Ocean Cleanup describes the first extraction of 2024 stating that 7029 kg of garbage has been...

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Protecting Our Wetlands and Rivers- The Okefenokee Protection Alliance

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Mar 152 min read

Protecting Our Wetlands and Rivers- The Okefenokee Protection Alliance

The Okefenokee Protection Alliance is a group of more than 40 organizations (including the Georgia River Network headquartered in Athens,...

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Shout Out – Ecotourism Along Georgia’s Coast

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Mar 32 min read

Shout Out – Ecotourism Along Georgia’s Coast

An article in the Spring-2024 Edition of the Magazine of the University of Georgia describes how an award-winning certifications program,...

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Apr 9, 20221 min read

Shout Out - Take 3 for the Sea

Check out this non-profit organization located in Australia: Stop Plastic Pollution | Take 3 For The Sea Here is their story: "Wherever...

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SHOUT OUT! GREEN IS LOVE Making Efforts to Educate the Next Generation

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Mar 28, 20221 min read

SHOUT OUT! GREEN IS LOVE Making Efforts to Educate the Next Generation

Nothing feels better than to know the articles I post on Environmental Blogger | Mermaids4CleanOceans | Defend Our Oceans from Plastics...

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Article: "GUIDE TO MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION"

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Mar 28, 20221 min read

Article: "GUIDE TO MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION"

In its introduction, this article posted by O.Berk (a packaging solutions company), the problem with the use of plastic as a material for...

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Mar 4, 20222 min read

Teach Your Kids to Clean the Ocean

How do you teach your children to love and respect the ocean? How can you teach young children the importance of the ocean to our...

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Mar 1, 20222 min read

Sea Turtle Nesting Season is Here!

Here in South Carolina, sea turtle nesting season runs from May 1 until Oct. 31 every year. Further south along the east coast the...

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Ocean Pollution a Threat to Human Health

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Feb 25, 20222 min read

Ocean Pollution a Threat to Human Health

Information republished from an article written by Megan Avakian, Feb-2021 - “Ocean pollution is a widespread, worsening, and poorly...

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Feb 18, 20221 min read

Indian Ocean Garbage Patch

The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a marine garbage patch, a gyre of marine litter, suspended in the upper water...

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Feb 11, 20221 min read

North Atlantic Garbage Patch

As four major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean between Virginia and Cuba push garbage through the sea, it gets absorbed into a giant...

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Feb 8, 20222 min read

BOO For Bimini!

February 2022 - I went on my first cruise since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the cruise industry in 2020. A 5-day cruise to the...

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Jan 29, 20221 min read

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in...

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Rare coral reef discovered near Tahiti is ‘like a work of art’, says diver

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Jan 21, 20221 min read

Rare coral reef discovered near Tahiti is ‘like a work of art’, says diver

Published by UN News, January 20, 2022 – “One of the largest coral reefs in the world has been discovered by a UN-supported scientific...

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Stop Mermaids from Crying - Plastic Pollution in the Ocean Starts in our Homes

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Jan 14, 20222 min read

Stop Mermaids from Crying - Plastic Pollution in the Ocean Starts in our Homes

Each one of us has the power to start reducing and ultimately stop plastic waste from reaching the fragile ecosystem under the ocean’s...

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Jan 10, 20221 min read

Mermaid Tears - Plastic in Our Oceans

Interesting short video. What is sad is that this was posted in 2011 and the problem continues to get worse. "Over the last few decades,...

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Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030

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Jan 7, 20221 min read

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030 | | UN News Our oceans are full of plastic according to an @UNEP assessment. The study...

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Researchers help Miami fight plastic pollution-December 20, 2021

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Dec 31, 20211 min read

Researchers help Miami fight plastic pollution-December 20, 2021

While the Bulldogs prepare for their much-anticipated game against the No. 2-ranked Michigan Wolverines in the Orange Bowl College...

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Sep 7, 20213 min read

The Problem with Plastics

From the tiniest plankton to the largest whales, plastics impact nearly 700 species in our ocean This post originally written on the...

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