Who is The Pteropod
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The butterflies of the sea, fragile victims of carbon dioxide
And they are in terrible danger. Their fragile little shells are beginning to cloud and crack and dissolve in the increasing levels of acidity in our ocean. Our oceans are sucking up our CO2 and it is killing them.
A Sea Change - Imagine A World Without Fish
Ocean acidification threatens over one million species with extinction--and with them, our entire way of life.
This is an award-winning film, made by a couple of grandparents for their granchild. It follows the grandafather's discovery of the existence of pteropods and his journeys across the US, Canada, Alaska and Norway learning about them for the sake fo his grandson.
Directed by Barbara Ettinger
Produced by Barbara Ettinger, Sven Huseby, Susan Cohn Rockefeller
A production of Niijii Films
Pteropods are important AND beautiful
Curved Needle Pteropod
Photographic Print
Pteropods support many of our commercial fisheries. Should they all die, many, many fishery stocks will collapse.
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Quick, what do you think of Pteropods?
Look at them! How can you not admire them?
Pteropod Videos
Learn about them and watch them swim
Pteropod Books and Things
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Twitter, Flitter, Flutter
Twitterings about the Sea Butterflies
Who's Heard of Ocean Acidification?
The silent killer of our pteropod
A pteropod snail emerges from its fragile shell
Photographic Print
Liittschwager,...
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- Expedition studies acid impacts on Arctic
- The effects of ocean acidification on Arctic seas will be studied by a team of 30 researchers, including Dr Toby Tyrrell from the University of Southampton, who set sail from the UK today (1 June), venturing as far north as polar ice allows.
- How much is an ocean worth?
- Ocean acidification, a consequence of the oceans being overloaded with carbon dioxide from human fossil fuel use, has been shown by a group of researchers to hamper the development of larval oysters at a hatchery on the Oregon coast.
- Hawaiian coral reefs mirror impacts of ocean warming and acidification
- Scientists and research students at the institute study a variety of subject areas including coral genetics, the impacts of climate change, rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification and coral bleaching. Coral have sweeping economic and cultural ...
- Ocean acidification threat to marine life
- By DNA Correspondent | Place: Chennai | Agency: DNA An international expert on biodiversity has warned that oceans all over the world are fast turning acidic which could lead to destruction of the entire marine wealth. ?The human society is yet to ...
Shout Out For Pteropod!
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Kylyssa
May 25, 2010 @ 5:00 pm | delete
- Thank you for this beautiful lens on pteropods! The pteropod images are wonderful.
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ShirlW
May 25, 2010 @ 7:37 am | delete
- Wow - An enlightening read. I've learned something today and loved the photos.
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4U2C Mar 15, 2010 @ 8:40 am | delete
- Really, really interesting article, and the photos are terrific!
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