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One of the more striking places to see adoption in the animal kingdom is Ano Nuevo Island, rising from the sea less than one kilometre off the rocky California coast.
It's a crowded beach, with bad weather, high tides and rough surf, which perhaps explains why one-quarter to two-thirds of pups each year were separated from their mothers at least once oe some permanently.
On a crowded beach it's easy for elephant seal pups to get separated from their parents (Frans Lanting/Mint images/SPL) The researchers counted a total of 572 orphaned pups over the course of the four consecutive breeding seasons.
This lack of discriminatory ability is seen particularly starkly in Lake erie's ring-billed gulls. Nest invasions are common,
This enormous habitat covers 32,000  sq km (12,000  sq  mi) on the Pacific coast of Canada,
the perilous journey of the Pacific salmon from the sea through the forest rivers to spawn in its creeks.
The salmon run draws carnivores such as bears and wolves to the river bank, where they gorge on the migrating fish.
The bears who feast on the spawning salmon don't eat on the river oe they drag the carcasses far into the forest.
In other words, these ocean dwellers are crucial for the forest's long-term survival. If you would like to comment on this video,
The fish that find refuge form the basis of an immense ocean food web and a huge fishing industry.
Kelp beds buffer coastlines from storms and sequester carbon as effectively as tropical rainforests. One of the kelp forest's most endearing denizens, the sea otter, is an important key to its survival.
and reuse its wastewater using a simulated tidal wetland. Windy city parkin Finland, Heiki Setã ¤lã ¤of the University of Helsinki has monitored the urban environment to measure pollutant concentrations near tree canopies and in waterways.
 In New york city, Thomas Whitlow of Cornell University sends students through tree-lined streets with portable, backpack-mounted air quality monitors.
Ocean living: A step closer to reality? The 1995 film Waterworld was one of Hollywood's most infamous budget busters oe a mega-million-dollar post-apocalyptic thriller that,
More importantly, it may also have helped do the same to the idea of mankind living on the sea.
Though scientists aren't predicting sea-level rises of the magnitude seen in Waterworld oe hundreds of feet thanks to melting polar ice caps oe we may have to plan for a world with much higher sea levels.
or at least some of us, will live on the ocean. Designer and architect Buckminster Fuller saw cities at sea contributing to a sustainable future for humanity.
or worse, of wealthy"robber barons  escaping to the high seas for financial reasons. Now, several groups are trying to change this perception by researching technologies that could help create floating cities,
Today, some 7, 000 Tankas still maintain a sea farming life oe possibly a preview of a future to come for many more of us.
We see signs that a"blue revolution  in ocean harvesting technology is underway, suggesting floating cities can't be far off.
Supply issuesit may be a necessity oe not merely a novelty oe to inhabit the sea in the coming decades,
and seaweed-draped lines anchored in shallow seas by ancient peoples like the Tankas. The most advanced methods of mass production employ harmful antibiotics
Given enough time, Kampachi Farms will replace stagnant ponds with GPS-tracked cages stitched out of copper wire to enable a constant inflow of fresh ocean water without flushing out the precious fish.
will be let loose in swirling ocean gyres, where they only need occasional course-correction to maintain a rough position.
Takahashi and his team have devised a plan to enable large ships equipped with ocean thermal electric conversion,
or Otec plants, in which warm surface waters interact with cold water"upwelled  from the deep ocean to drive a large power turbine.
and China's Reignwood group recently announced plans to complete a 10 megawatt plant oe the first on the open-ocean oe not far from the Fujian Province in China's southern seas.
but the abundant sunlight and acres surrounding these pods will be feed enough to vast ocean ranches,
it's not far-fetched to imagine hundreds of these plants grazing the high seas, trading abundant seafood surpluses with cities on land.
Meanwhile, Shell is preparing to anchor the world's largest floating offshore structure oe  the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural gas facility oe  off Australia's northwest coast in 2014.
Shell's example demonstrates the long-lived feasibility of living on the sea. In fact, most fundamental challenges of living safely on the ocean have been solved by offshore drilling
or shipping companies (cruise lines got satellite internet years ago, while most of Asia and Africa still lack it).
Free floatingthe Seasteading Institute has also been dealing with the challenges faced by communities trying to live permanently on the ocean.
territorial waters of a nation willing to"host  the structures and their inhabitants. With help from the Dutch aquatic architecture firm Deltasync, the institute hopes to design something that will meet the needs of residents,
the logistical challenges needed allow a community to live on the high seas can be solved one at a time. British designer Phil Pauley has developed a concept for a sea habitat comprising interconnected spherical modules that could submerge during storms
and rest at the surface in good weather. The long vertical trusses holding up Pauley's design use Fuller's principles for strong, lightweight"tensegrity  structures.
Do-it-yourself sea-living enthusiast Vince Cate has been using prototyping simple"ball stead  homes which achieve buoyancy and stable surface"real estate.  Testing models in the Caribbean sea,
Even after 2, 000 years of the sea's harsh beating, a Roman harbour built with a mixture of standard concrete
We are already researching ways to harvest food and energy in deeper, more remote parts of the ocean.
These cities of the sea could use algal biofuel production and store energy from wind and the Sun. As designs improve oe
and get cheaper oe the idea of a home on the ocean will become more affordable.
Consider the ancient aqueduct system built in the 4th century that supplied Constantinople with water from 250km away;
such as the watersheds, tunnels, aqueducts and reservoirs that fed oe and continue to feed-New york city.
and Delta Works transformed a shallow inland sea of 3, 500 sq km into both fertile agricultural land and a coastal buffer that reduced flooding and provided fresh water.
Rather than discharging brine into the ocean, scientists are developing multiple mixing ponds as wetlands to reduce the toxicity of the brine as well as to cultivate habitat.
 Conceptually, this method of treatment has precedent. In Shanghai, in a project known as Houtan Park, artificial wetlands have been used to treat polluted waters along the city's Huangpu riverfront.
Water management strategies should also be implemented down to the level of industrial sites, where improvements can build on existing networks of freshwater tributaries, tidal estuaries,
infrastructure and engineered ecosystems. Many types of industry and energy production oe including hydropower mineral extraction and mining or fuel production oe rely on vast quantities of water.
the design team Koetter Kim suggested cooling towers could be replaced by recirculating water through green space such as wetlands, walls of vegetation, agriculture and fountains.
In the UK, the London Wetland Centre functions as such a working landscape; its habitats are built into clay-lined pools
There may be plenty more fish in the sea but not the ones we're used to eating.
and waters warm there will be a global shift"from a fish to a jellyfish ocean Â. Its author Ferdinando Boero, Professor of Zoology at Salento University,
reducing global land-use change and also mean fewer reservoirs and river diversions for irrigation oe currently 70%of our freshwater use goes on agriculture.
Only Egypt survived in the long term, thanks to the Nile river. Today's cities are at risk from a different set of issues.
water that drains rivers, fish from the oceans, and energy which requires the plunder of yet more land.
such as a mountaintop view, a lake and palm trees, have been picked cherry and combined to provide an easy, entirely artificial landscape for the city.
rivers swim with fish and populations of animals that have become rare in the countryside are thriving in urban niches.
Seagulls, for example, now often live in cities hundreds of kilometres from the coast. As their traditional food oe fish oe becomes scarcer,
For example, in estuary environments so-called oystertecture, in which shellfish are farmed on sculptural metal structures, could be used to filter impurities,
we may well be recovering natural gas oe methane hydrate oe from beneath the oceans, tapping reserves perhaps twice as big as all other fossil fuels combined.
The placebo was made for the study by the cranberry juice manufacturers Ocean Spray. The result? Drinking cranberries made no difference to the recurrence of infections.
University of Alberta scientists EL Karstad and RJ Hudson describe one dominant male backing up to the riverbank
This cephalopod, found in the waters off the eastern coast of Australia, controls the appearance of its skin with exquisite precision.
as would desalination plants along the coast, he said, but the costs to pipe that water to Sanaa, 2, 250m (7,
000ft) above sea level, are prohibitive.""There are, Â he said, "no quick fixes and no one size fits all solution.
then perhaps the best place to head for is a patch of ocean that stretches south of the San francisco bay towards the Farallon Islands.
this treacherous bit of sea is known as the triangle of death for good reason oe the considerable threat of great white sharks is increased by the conspicuous absence of kelp that otters normally use to hide.
Forest Giant David Quammen National geographic 30 november 2012on a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National park, around 7, 000 feet above sea level in the Sierra nevada, lies a very big tree.
such as islands or mountain lakes. As a result, it's possible to find some endemic species that exist nowhere else On earth,
and yields-on behalf of organizations ranging from the World Food Program to Great lakes Coffee (a local coffee purchaser) that lack an affordable means of collecting such granular, real-time information.
the wind and precipitation patterns, acidifying the oceans, warming the habitats for plants and animals,
melting glaciers and ice sheets, increasing the frequency of wildfires and raising sea levels. And we are doing this at such a rapid pace that animals
On 6 may 2000 a dead female dolphin was spotted on the seabed, 50 metres from the eastern coast of Mikura Island, near Japan.
On 20 july 2001, a dead sub-adult male was spotted on a nearby seabed, wedged between two large boulders,
Britain supported Chile, enabling it to win most of the guano and saltpetre area and Bolivia's entire coastline in the process.
Fertiliser pollution in lakes and the ocean causes massive blooms of algae, which use up the oxygen dissolved in the water,
where whole river systems are polluted and the soils degraded by intensive farming. But safeguards in Europe, including using only a small amount of fertiliser where needed,
and providing catchment reed beds that filter out any runoff before it enters the river, have reduced greatly the problem there.
As with all fertilisers, manure runoff can also pollute rivers and oceans with eutrophication (death by oxygen starvation.
for example, increasing the number of structures in the Nile valley including 17 new pyramids. In August, two more were found using images from Google earth.
11 new waterways, more than 60 caves as well as clues that suggest there could be up to 1400 water reservoirs on the site.
and the trappings of life has depleted the forests, polluted rivers and soils and even carved the tops of mountains.
acid rain poisoned rivers, lakes and soils, eroded buildings and monuments; refrigerant chemicals ate away at the protective ozone layer;
and acidified the oceans. In addition, our voracious appetite for manufactured products has led to massive deforestation
like the local people, with a bucket of cold water and a pouring scoop oe usually river water,
Why damming world's rivers is a tricky balancing actwe remain desperately dependent on water for our survival.
Freshwater is so valuable that even today with our sophisticated hydroengineering systems, more than half the world's population lives within 3 kilometres (2 miles) of a surface body of freshwater such as a lake or river.
Our problem is that 97%of our planet's water is salty ocean. Of the 2. 5%that is fresh, most of it is trapped in glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland and mountains.
Just 0. 008 of 1%of all the water On earth is held on the surface in rivers,
lakes and wetlands where we can get at it. An even tinier proportion hangs in the atmosphere as clouds and rain.
Environmental losstwo-thirds of the world's major rivers have now been disrupted with more than 50,000 dams in an attempt to store water
stoppering large and small rivers, and in most cases utterly transforming natural flow. The most famous of these, the Hoover dam, constructed in the 1930s
is largely responsible for the fact that the mighty Colorado river no longer reaches the ocean. And that's the problem.
Creating a reservoir means a large area must be flooded oe often prime riverside land. Communities may lose their land, houses and culturally important sites such as ancestral burial grounds,
resulting in dead zones around the shores of reservoirs. Fish that lay their eggs in the shallows among submerged tree roots,
Downstream of a dam, the seasonal floods that revitalize wetlands and fertilise paddy fields cease. The flow may be reduced
which are literally sinking into the oceans. Groundwater is being extracted to feed the city oe in part
because the river volume is no longer adequate to meet the need oe causing the urban weight to sink,
and sediments washed away by the ocean are no longer being replaced. The result is sea level rise in cities from Shanghai to Alexandria.
Economic gaini've visited several controversial dam sites around the world, and for all of them, the tension has been between the national economic advantage offered by the dam oe often by selling the power to international neighbours,
which is planning to dam Patagonian rivers, and Laos, which plans to dam the Mekong,
rely on energy imports and so hydro is a very attractive domestic option. Other countries, such as Brazil which is planning the world's third largest dam at Belo Monte, China
The Aswan dam on Egypt's Nile for example, was highly controversial when it was built in the 1960s.
Yet for all the environmental damage to its downstream river system, you'd be pushed hard to find an Egyptian that advocates its removal.
acidifying the oceans, and reducing biodiversity. At the same time, our global population will grow from seven billion to nine billion by 2050,
including climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, change in land and freshwater use. The concept was embraced enthusiastically by institutions such as the United nations and large NGOS like Oxfam,
and rain to wash it into the oceans. Soil erosion is such a serious problem that some scientists believe European soil could last less than a century.
which now contains more carbon dioxide molecules oe and the oceans, which are more acidic because more of that carbon dioxide is dissolving into them.
we are changing the climate by melting glaciers and raising sea levels. Our atmospheric tinkering means that scientists think we have delayed indefinitely the next Ice age.
000 sq km per year, according to the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations), rerouting rivers (we manage more than half of the planet's available freshwater)
and other excavation shifts four times the amount moved naturally by glaciers and rivers. We are changing the numbers
or the islands we have grown out of the sea off Dubai, or the mountain tops we have removed in our quest for coal.
Last years cherry was a giant rubber ball about 6 feet in length. oeit had some issues in the Wind rose told AOL News. oewere on the Great lakes,
says the colossal cod will descend 60 feet down to Oyster Pond Beach. It took him six months to build the fish,
Schooner Wharf will drop a pirate wench into the ocean at 12 sharp, and a drag queen named Sushi will drop from one end of the town in the other in a pair of high-heeled shoes.
so, in theory, a mashed potato scrub may be able to help reduce that puffiness we all feel the day after Thanksgiving. oemix two cups of mashed potatoes with one cup of sea salt and one cup of aloe vera juice.
Prey Interactions Similar On land and in Oceans major predators help control the populations of their prey
and in the oceans as if they were said completely separate William Ripple, a professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems at Society at OSU,
and from them learn how interactions on land may be a predictor of what we will see in the oceans,
But matters are complicated greatly by atmospheric circulation patterns, cyclic changes in temperatures over the oceans,
oealthough such effects are minimised by the purification processes performed before wastewaters are discharged into rivers or to the coast.
just like manure is reused as fertiliser in agriculture. oethe problem is that in many cases our rivers have a very low water level
An 11-year study of a population of wild sheep located on a remote island off the coast of Scotland that gauged the animals susceptibility to infection may give new insight into why some people get sicker than others when exposed to the same illness.
He explains how he went out on a boat with his family members to sprinkle the ashes of his grandfather into the sea His uncle oereleased them on the wrong side of the boat
. While the monster fish captures headlines as it inches toward the Great lakes, other species have colonized already other parts of the country,
1. Canada Geese for endangering public health by soiling parks and lakes, stripping farmers fields and getting in the way of airplanes;
and the Pacific coast. oethis year we might have more demand. I am concerned about the availability of freight cars for grain shipments.
In Palm Coast, civil engineer James Tiffany took a job in 2006 and quickly bought a home to capitalize on the boom that transformed this once sleepy retirement community into one of the nations fastest-growing cities.
In Riverside Calif.,the jobless rate is 14.4 percent, higher than the rate in the Detroit area.
Until recently, the economy in Palm Coast was built largely on breakneck housing growth, which helped double the population to about 100,000 over the past decade and drew people such as the 32-year-old Tiffany to town.
He and his wife, a physical therapist, moved here from New Smyrna Beach, Fla. about 50 miles away.
The huge county courthouse in Palm Coast is largely vacant. Next door, the new county office building was built also for growth that suddenly ended,
and easy access to the beach seemed to sell itself. oewe have to identify assets,
When magazine marketing and fulfillment company Palm Coast Data threatened to leave two years ago,
Palm Coast officials vacated their city hall and leased it to the company to keep its more than 1, 000 jobs in town.
Palm Coast also recently landed Galtronics Telemetry an Israel-based maker of advanced antennas that has a design
and marketing center in Palm Coast. Officials are proud of those moves, but they know the new jobs are unlikely to be a good match for the construction workers,
real estate agents and mortgage brokers who make up the largest share of Palm Coasts unemployed. oeyou can bring in all the electronics jobs you want,
and one in Denver. oei used to manage Whole Foods stores on the East Coast,
so that the wild fish can be left in the oceans. US watchdog the Food and Drug Administration is currently considering whether the GM Atlantic salmon,
since Owen was rescued from a reef where he was stranded during the 2004 tsunami in the Indian ocean
the federal government required her to haul them across Puget sound on a ferry and then drive three hours to reach a suitable slaughterhouse.
the federal government required her to haul them across Puget sound on a ferry and then drive three hours to reach a suitable slaughterhouse.
The red land of the eastern river is a place where one almost can not find it in Chinas tourist maps.
The red land of the eastern river is a place where one almost can not find it in Chinas tourist maps.
It is located in the southwestern part of KUNMING, 2600 ft. above sea level, a remote area. Because of its lack of infrastructure, transportation problem, inadequate lodging facilities, ordinary travel agency would not think of going there.
He has been attending a football academy on the edge of downtown Bamako, near the banks of the Niger river,
and even New yorks tiny Finger Lakes Distilling sells Glen Thunder, named after the Watkins Glen racetrack.
That reduced erosion, the runoff of chemicals into waterways and the use of fuel for tractors.
There is significant evidence that our growing preference for digital media is having a profoundly negative impact on our forests and the health of our rivers.
Similar to growing coral in the oceans or crystals in a laboratory growing rocks may become an expansive new area of farming.
These CSP/Seawater Greenhouse technologies will work together at a location some distance from the north coast of Africa, hopefully at a point below sea level
If combined with sea water another 50%of the collected energy, normally released as heat,
as a result of rising sea levels, accuses the Americans of engaging in intrigue to make climatology seem ridiculous.
How high will sea levels rise in a greenhouse climate? Can we expect to see storms of unprecedented strength in the future?
sea levels are rising and sea ice in the Arctic regions is disappearing. But these signs are compared nothing with the readings taken at weather stations.
The problem is that the quality of the raw data derived from weather services around the world differs considerably.
But youll also have skylights over your bed, a river right outside, and access to the glass observation area for everything from birdwatching to stargazingnd isnt that better than your childhood playhouse?
and the Amazon river with eco-tourism adventures and refuel after a long day at open-air restaurants stocked with local food.
Maravu Plantation Fiji is known best for its beaches, but dont underestimate its rainforest resorts: The treehouses at the Maravu Plantation come with king-sized beds, local flowers,
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and fully recharge, taking her children to the coast for a weekend. Another risk is reduced output. oealmost any time we switch between doing different tasks,
using a microscope on a Massachusetts beach. Once assembled, the 75 species were stripped then down to their DNA for a painstaking search to find genetic sequences that would appear across all arthropods, enabling statistical comparisons.
the regional ecosystem that surrounds many of the population centers on the East Coast. He and Mcmahon hope other forest ecologists will examine data from their own tree censuses to help determine how widespread the phenomenon is.
And since shes associated with the ocean (and in some stories sprang forth out of the foam of ocean water),
it stands to reason that other fruits of the sea would possess similar charms, right? Actually, its been theorized that oysters are considered aphrodisiacs because, evolutionarily,
the origins of life began in the water. In other words, the concept is that we, like our amoeba ancestors,
scientists modeling this scenario have found that replacing tundra with trees will melt sea ice
More importantly, the researchers model predicts that the increased water vapor would melt more sea ice,
resulting in more absorption of sunlight by the open ocean and dumping more water vapor into the atmosphere.
and it built a new casino at Lake Tahoe. In 1978 the company was the largest gaming employer in Nevada
Webbs final contribution to Las vegas may be a sea-change in desert demographics. He found Las vegas a fast, young city full of young men and women on the make.
and it built a new casino at Lake Tahoe. In 1978 the company was the largest gaming employer in Nevada
Webbs final contribution to Las vegas may be a sea-change in desert demographics. He found Las vegas a fast, young city full of young men and women on the make.
#The shortages have been most noticeable on the East Coast but most areas of the country have had short supplies at some point in recent months.
Mr. Siemon says that to fill spot gaps in production he has had to send trucks of milk from the Midwest to the East Coast or from California to the Midwest.
the super-elite in Shanghai and other east-coast cities have pulled steadily away. Income inequality has increased also in developing markets such as India and Russia
The best seller fits neatly into the genre of modern mommy lit##SA Today advised readers to take it to the beach#ut the author told me that she was inspired to write it in part by her belief that people have no clue about how much money there is in this town.#
#As with the aristocracies of bygone days, such vast wealth has created a gulf between the plutocrats and other people,
Though Elerian lives in Laguna Beach California, near where Pimco is headquartered, he says that he can t name a single country as his own.
for example, Stephen Jennings, the 50-year-old New zealander who co-founded the investment bank Renaissance Capital.
The largest aluminum group in the world is Russian#The fastest-growing and largest banks in China, Russia,
who complained of wanting to get his life back after the Gulf oil spill and then proceeded to do
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