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Sharks Need Your Help

Sharks Need Your Help

Action movies and bite incidents helped to build up an image of sharks as brutal and fierce monsters. Quite the opposite is the case: Healthy oceans need healty and vibrant shark populations. The Australian organization Sea Shepherd helps to protect sharks and to...
Great News for Mantas, Rays and Dolphins!

Great News for Mantas, Rays and Dolphins!

Mantas, Rays and Dolphins are more in focus of Conservation! That is what  gevernements promised to step up to at the UN Wildlife Conference. The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals  was found after six days of intense negotiations...
Surfing Big waves for Big Data

Surfing Big waves for Big Data

Surfboard Collects Oceanic Data Do you know that only 5 % of the world’s oceans have been explored? Smart surfboards equipped with sensors could change this. Surfer and engineer Benjamin Thompson invented a smart surfboard fin equipped with a sensitive sensor...