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Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico in 2006.
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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico...
A summertime channel carries melted ice to the sea. Antarctica and Greenland lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year from such melting.
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Ice Melt at the Poles

It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion...
Dead sharks caught in fish net.
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Sharks caught in nets

Shark nets are trapping and killing dozens of sharks off the coast of South Africa....
A Great White Shark hunted and killed.
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Dead Great White Shark

By-catch, illegal fishing, sport fishing, loss of prey and habitat and shark nets...
The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and more than a mile thick.
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Jakobshavn Glacier

The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and...
A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.
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Thresher Shark Killed by a Gillnet

"Tens of millions of sharks are killed each year, often only for their fins. I have...
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