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In wake of white shark's death, Aquarium launches "Must Love Sharks" campaign.

A female great white shark found tangled in a fish net near Baja, California on Tuesday, May 11th turned out to be a shark the Monterey Bay Aquarium successfully kept on exhibit for 69 days before re-releasing into the wild. She was simply known as Number 5, and she was the fifth juvenile great white to be fostered in the Aquarium's Outer Bay's 1-million gallon tank. She traveled over 500 miles south before being accidentally caught by commercial fishermen.

Number 5's untimely death underscores the importance of the Aquarium's "Must Love Sharks" campaign. The campaign encourages people to share why they love of sharks using social networks like Facebook and Twitter. They also have Podcasts to educate and engage people about the importance of these top predators.

To read the full article, visit: http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/archives/2010/2010-May-13/in-wake-of-white-sharks-death-aquarium-launches-must-love-sharks-campaign/1/@@index

To see videos of the amazing shark, go to: http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Shark

Senate Gets a Climate and Energy Bill, Modified by a Gulf Spill That Still Grows

The bill’s overall goal is to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent (compared with 2005 levels) by 2020, and by 83 percent by 2050. The targets match those in a House bill passed last year and in the Obama administration’s announced policy goal. The sponsors rewrote the section on offshore oil drilling in recent days to reflect mounting concern over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, raising new hurdles for any future drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts while allowing it to proceed off Louisiana, Texas and Alaska.

To read the full article, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/science/earth/13climate.html?th&emc=th

To see a wide range of climate-related, professional quality video footage, go to: http://www.naturefootage.com/stock_video/energy_video.htm

Happy Birthday Earth Day!

Did you know that Earth Day is 40 years old today? This is a day for people around the globe to gather and participate in activities that raise public awareness on a myriad of environmental issues ranging from climate change to water pollution. For more about Earth Day and its history, visit: http://animals.about.com/od/wildlifeconservation/f/earthday.htm

To see a wide range of videos starring our planet, visit: http://www.naturefootage.com/stockfootage/Earth%20day

A 2nd garbage patch: Plastic soup seen in Atlantic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles (kilometers) in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.

The floating garbage — hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents — was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands.

To read to full article, go to: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jH9cZIhX2TT48DGALmFr2UIVNhDQD9F3DPIO0

To see video of plastic marine debris, visit: http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Plastic

http://www.oceanfootage.com/video_clips/JDE01_018

So Long Sardines: America's Last Cannery Closing

For the past 135 years, sardine canneries have been as much a part of Maine's small coastal villages as the thick Down East fog. It's been estimated that more than 400 canneries have come and gone along the state's long, jagged coast.

The lone survivor, the Stinson Seafood plant here in this eastern Maine shoreside town, shuts down this week after a century in operation. It is the last sardine cannery not just in Maine, but in the United States.

To read the full story: go to:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/14/national/main6394365.shtml
To see footage of canneries, visit: http://www.naturefootage.com/stockfootage/Cannery

Elephant Shocked By Electric Wire KILLS Circus Worker

April 10, 2010 — A circus elephant in Pennsylvania is reported to have killed it's trainer accidentally after coming into contact with an electric wire. To read full article visit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/10/elephant-shocked-by-elect_n_533007.html

To see video of Asian and African elephants, visit: http://www.naturefootage.com/stockfootage/Elephant

http://www.naturefootage.com/video_clips/NZ32_092