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Turns out deep sea crabs aren't the only underwater wildlife to eat wood. An Amazonian armored catfish does too.

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The Vaquita porpoise may be living its last days in Mexico's Gulf of California.

Redneck Yacht Club member. Image credit:Redneck Village, "These R My People."

Proper treehuggers follow Lloyd's admonition to keep living space down to just what you need to get by.

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What a way to explore the ocean...

Japan's Kori no Suizokukan (Ice Aquarium) in Kesennuma, northeastern Japan has about 450 specimens of about 80 species on display for anyone to examine or ponder. But they aren't floating or zipping through aquariums. Nope...they're frozen in blocks of ice.

SPOT emergency personal communicator device, with "SOS" button. Image credit:Amazon ad.

Many younger Americans, devoid of such early life experiences as one would get from Boy Scouting or hunting with experienced companions, emboldened by a proliferation of c

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"If the shoe fits," the old saying goes, but for fly fishers—who prize clean, healthy, rivers and the trout that inhabit them—hearing that their boots may be responsible for spreading a virulent microorganism across the country and around the world is a difficult to accept....

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By now you'd have to have been living on a desert island by yourself with an imaginary coconut companion to not know that overfishing is a serious problem for all the world's oceans.

Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It's a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it's all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing. Government officials believe that by providing more habitat for species, the fishing industry can be sustained. While skeptical at first, locals are also latching on to the idea. Video report after the jump.