Nudibranch - Sea Slugs - A re-write

Image via WikipediaThis article, about the Nudibranch (also called the Sea Slug - an ugly name for such a beautiful creature, don't you think?). For an idea of the seemingly infinite colours, shapes and varieties go to the 4^th video - Nudibranchs　ウミウシの世界　Sea Slugs Variations.

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Spanish Dancer in the Red Sea (3:48)

Spanish dancers are very large nudibranchs known for their graceful swimming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlB1-EabgI&feature=player_embedded#

Nudibranch Adaptations Nudibranchs protect themselves by having adaptations to other poisonous creatures and also use bright colors to signal they, too, are poisonous. This film was created May 20, 2006 during the Living Oceans Foundation's Farasan Islands Expedition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3oBSAxKSM&feature=related

Nudibranch Sea Slugs of the coast of Indonesia – Description and discussion in a National Geographic (:55) YouTube Video

What's your poison? The nudibranch sea slug devours the man o' war's stinging cells, then uses them for its own defense! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHVoV0MVwSc&feature=fvw

Nudibranchs　ウミウシの世界　Sea Slugs Variations
スキューバダイビングで撮影したウミウシです http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKmz2vEAgA

HD Macro ウミウシ～海の宝石～（DVD） - TheUMIUSHIDVD

ナゾだらけのかわいいやつ――それがウミウシである。
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* from Wikipedia: “A nudibranch (pronounced /ˈnjuːdɨbræŋk/)[1] is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, and what was previously a suborder, of soft-bodied, marine gastropod mollusks which shed their shell after their larval stage[2]. They are noted for their often extraordinary colors and striking forms. The clade Nudibranchia is the largest clade within the heterobranchs, with more than 3,000 described species.

The word "nudibranch" comes from the Latin nudus, naked, and the Greek brankhia, gills.

Nudibranchs are often casually called "sea slug", but many sea slugs belong to several taxonomic groups which are not related to nudibranchs. A number of these other sea slugs (such as the colorful Aglajidae) are often confused with nudibranchs.”

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Boycott Plastic! - Don't Buy, or Use Plastic! (2nd post)

Image via WikipediaPerhaps our work to ban plastic is beginning to work. A Plastic Pollution Coalition has been formed. Disposable plastics are the greatest source of plastic pollution (sign The REFUSE Pledge). Designed to be discarded, cigarette filters, straws, plastic bottles, plastic utensils, lids, plastic bottles and so many others offer a small convenience but remain forever. REFUSE disposable plastics! Follow the “4 Rs” of sustainable living: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/986

With its work, Plastic Pollution seeks to put plastic pollution at the forefront of global social, environmental and political discourse.

Celebrities like Jack Johnson, Benicio del Toro, and Jackson Browne are lending their media-clout to the problem of excessive plastic pollution currently choking our oceans and killing innocent wildlife. These prominent actors and musicians have improvised their own creative REFUSE disposable plastic videos and posted them on Plastic Pollution Coalition's website and YouTube channel. The short spots encourage people to refuse disposable plastic bags, cups, utensils, and straws—the biggest sources of plastic pollution.

Plastic Pollution Coalition provides a platform for collaboration and coherent communications; increases awareness and understanding of the problem and sustainable solutions; and empowers action. (Membership organizations, as at November, 2010):

• 5 Gyres Project

• Adventure Ecology

• Algalita Marine Research Foundation

• Apollo Alliance

• Around the Americas

• Art From Scrap

• Artists for a New South Africa

• Bash The Trash Environmental Arts

• Beach Plastic

• Bioneers

• BLUE Ocean Film Festival

• Blue Ocean Institute

• Breast Cancer Fund

• Bring Your Own

• Californians Against Waste

• Center for Safe Energy (центр по безопасной энергии)

• Clean Water Action

• COARE

• Costa Salvaje, Mexico

• Corporate Accountability International

• Create Plenty

• The David Brower Center

• Earth Resource Foundation

• Ecology Center

• Ecousable

• Environment California

• Environmental Working Group

• Everychild Foundation

• The FMLY

• Girl Scouts of the USA

• Global Reef Fund, Canada

• Green An-hui Enviromental Development Center, China

• Green My Parents

• Greenpeace USA

• Green Prophet

• Green Sangha

• Heal the Bay

• Imaging Foundation

• International Pellet Watch

• Kokua Hawaii’s Foundation Plastic Free Hawaii Campaign

• Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

• Marine Mammal Conservation Through the Arts

• Marine Plastic

• Mongol Environmental Conservation, Mongolia

• National Building Contractors, Inc.

• NextNow Collaboratory

• NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

• Ocean Aid

• Ocean Gybe

• Ocean Revolution

• Oikonos Foundation

• Okeanis

• O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Operation USA

• Pebble in the Pond Environmental Society, Canada

• Plastic Planet, Austria

• Plastic Pollution Texas

• Plastic Promise

• Pronatura Noroeste, Mexico

• Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, Mexico

• Rise Above Plastics

• Rock the Earth

• Sailors for the Sea

• Save Our Shores

• Save The Bay

• Sealife Conservation

• Sea Studios Foundation

• Save our Seas Ocean Racing, Australia

• Students Acting for the Environment, Japan

• Surfrider Foundation

• Surviving LA

• Tara Expeditions

• Texas Campaign for the Environment

• The Clean Oceans Project

• The Endocrine Disruption Exchange

• The Ocean Foundation

• Think Beyond Plastics

• Trash Patch

• Trash for Teaching

• Wild Coast

• Witness

• Whole Children, Whole Planet

See also:

Fake plastic fish ... Live life with less plastic: Plastic-Free Living Guide. Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left ...

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Boycott Plastic! - Don't Buy, or Use Plastic! (includes 5 videos)

Image via WikipediaMany of you know that I formerly made my living as a financial man, mostly in the forest and mining industries, an author and university lecturer. But, I've had a change of heart, a 180° degree reversal, if you will. Especially as I have grown older I have become increasingly concerned about the legacy we are passing on to our children and grandchildren.

For a number of years I have been more concerned with Conservation, Ecology, the Environment and Global Warming. In 2003 I set up Immaculate Earth© Green World Club©, An Internet Club concerned with Conservation, Ecology, the Environment and Global Warming. It has been going through many a lot of research, edits and has been completely reorganized with a new name and URL. It has, we think an important message – Stan Webb:

Prologue and Mission:

We promote clean-ups and long-term reductions in pollution; and programs assisting life affirming and sustainable development.

Statement of Fact:

We [humankind] are poisoning our planet for ourselves; and all other species of life. We are poisoning the air we breathe, the food and water we ingest, the very land we walk upon, and the oceans from which humanity hopes to produce food in future. For instance, already the U.N. is advising humans all over the world not to eat shark of any kind or type, and no more than 4 ounces of Tuna per week if you are an adult; none if you are a child? . Mercury! Do you remember that 25 years ago we all had a dream . . . of living in a paperless computer world . . . we now consume more paper, in every office, than we ever did?
We have a very important job for you to do. Find all sources of plastics and discontinue it's use. It never breaks down into organic compounds and will, eventually, find it's way into the oceans. After you do your own research, we hope that you will follow along with the 1^st of some actions of the we will ask you to take.

Perhaps the most inspirational message comes in the last 2 videos; those of our young people and children and grandchildren who will have to live with our garbage, forever.

Polluting the world's oceans, one of our major food sources, is one tragedy that makes me ashamed of what I am passing on for my grandchildren. It should make us all ashamed. It will be a shame because plastic only breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces and never goes away completely. The water species mistake broken down, smaller plastics for food, eat those, which then continue on up the food chain to the top, into humankind's food. Of course, there is also the problem about the untold species, often unwanted species, killed in discarded and/or drift plastic nets.

It will not only kill off a lot of potential food sources which will die from hunger when the birds and fishes bellies are full of undigested plastic; but, there are known carcinogens (cancer-causing) and other as yet unknown side effects that will be passed right back up to our grandchildren.

TEDx has posted a series of videos about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also on YouTube:

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Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Capt. Charles Moore

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Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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The Majestic Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary

Narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, this "mockumentary" video, hammers home the stark reality of California's plastic bag pollution situation.

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Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani - Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker. - Go behind the scenes and read about the making: http://futurestates.tv/episodes/plast...

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The Majestic Plastic Bag – A Mockumentary

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Narrated by Jeremy Irons, this video depicts the long journey of a plastic bag -- from a grocery store parking lot to its home in the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, caught in an Ocean gyre: (from Wikipedia).

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgh9h2ePYw&feature=player_embedded, or

The following are the five most notable gyres:

• North Atlantic Gyre

• South Atlantic Gyre

• Indian Ocean Gyre

• North Pacific Gyre

• South Pacific Gyre

“Gyres are caused by the Coriolis Effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, which determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl (torque). The term gyre can be used to refer to any type of vortex in the air or the sea, even one that is man-made, but it is most commonly used in oceanography, to refer to the major ocean systems.”

See also, Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Other links:

• 5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Marine Pollution

• North Pacific Gyre Oscillation — Georgia Institute of Technology

• Physical Geography - Surface and Subsurface Ocean Currents

• SIO 210: Introduction to Physical Oceanography - Global circulation

• SIO 210: Introduction to Physical Oceanography - Wind-forced circulation notes

• SIO 210: Introduction to Physical Oceanography - Lecture 6

• Wind Driven Surface Currents: Gyres

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Record-Breaking Sea-Creature Surveys Released

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Record-Breaking Sea-Creature Surveys Released a Video by National Geographic

August 2, 2010—The Census of Marine Life has released the most comprehensive inventory of ocean life ever created. See some of the deep-sea stars of the "roll call," and find out which regions are the most diverse—and threatened.

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