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Jetting off into the sunset 8 Sep 2016  

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Sunset in London  

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Always try to remember the good old days...  

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Watching the sunrise 8 Sep 2016  

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Endangered Species  

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Uh, So, Giraffes Are Actually Four Different Species  
You would think that giraffes, the tallest land animals in the world, would be hard to overlook. Yet, for centuries scientists may have missed a fundamental fact about these long-necked creatures: They aren't one species , but rather four distinct ones.  
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Time to look after your best friend - the one you never knew you had!  
In this modern era of social media where we end up with many more friends than we ever thought we had, we all know deep down who our best friends are. Friendships have their ups and downs and when we get it wrong, like me, you feel that pang of guilt to make things right. So what if I told you that you had been ignoring one of your best friends - and for years! They were in touch with you from your earliest days, they made sure you were fed, they provided you with great holidays, they can be moody, sometimes even scare you, but at heart they have nurtured you from day one. Of course I am not talking about someone but something - the ocean.

We are all intimately connected to the ocean, but do we really know the scale of that friendship? Just in the last two months whilst researching the impacts of ocean warming for the biggest launch event we will hold at the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii in September, I was staggered to find out just how much the ocean has been helping us of late. Everyone knows about global warming, but fewer of us know about ocean warming, and where exactly all that extra 'greenhouse' heating of the Earth has been going. The reality is truly staggering. If the same amount of heat that has gone into the top 2km of the ocean between 1955 and 2010 had gone into the lower 10km of the atmosphere, then the Earth would have seen a warming of 36°C. Though most of us know that we owe it to the ocean that life goes on, we just might not have realised the degree of that debt.

So how can we repay that debt? Well it is not surprising that this role in shielding us from harm has come at a great cost. Our new best friend is feeling stressed - to put it mildly - so, just as with other friends, we should 'give the ocean some space'. We have been abusing this relationship, taking more out of the ocean than it can stand, and making it accept far more of the damage and impacts from our activities than is good for it.

So the urgency is to protect it, so it can recover. Whilst we have made promises to do so we have not been keeping up our end of the bargain. We promised by 2010 to protect 10% of the ocean but we failed on that, so we just moved the goal posts to 2020. If that was one of your friends, how might you feel? 'Lacking commitment' might be your mildest thought! The reality is we have barely protected 4%, and now even gone in the wrong direction and increased our activities in the remaining 96% to do things like seabed mining - years before we actually have the ability to check what effects this really will have. So what WE do in the coming years will make all the difference. Just as the ocean is made up of many drops of water, so the effort to save it will only come from a commitment from everyone. Politicians still seem surprisingly reluctant to take the lead, so let's create that situation so they want to head the procession.

The solutions are there for everyone to see. We must immediately and dramatically cut our emissions of greenhouse gases that are getting the ocean so hot and bothered. If we don't the ocean won't give up on us, but it will definitely change, and in ways that hold far less attraction and benefits, and many more problems. We need to challenge authorities to stop hiding behind closed doors and tell us what they are doing out on the ocean - how many of you know that an area of the seabed 80% the size of the contiguous United States of America has now been given over to mining companies to explore, just within the last few years? On land there would be an outcry, but in the ocean they are getting away with it. If you must eat fish only buy from truly sustainable and traceable sources. Avoid buying sunscreens and personal care products with the ingredient oxybenzone, as it is shown to damage corals. Don't use plastic bags and throw them away - always reuse and adopt a 'bag for life'. But we must also create many more areas to let the ocean recover - we call them marine protected areas. Join with ocean leaders and key conservation organisations to send clear messages that more must be done to protect the ocean. After all, we know rest and recuperation are some of the best tonics for recovery - so let's extend that hand of friendship to the ocean, and start repaying our debt with gratitude.

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post in partnership with Ocean Unite, an initiative to unite and activate powerful voices for ocean-conservation action. The series is being produced to coincide with the UN's Preparatory Committee Meeting (Aug 26-Sept 9) on an internal legally binding instrument on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and is a part of HuffPost's "What's Working" initiative, putting a spotlight on initiatives around the world that are solutions oriented. To read all the posts in the series, read here.

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North Korea's largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity  
The nation's fifth atomic test has been revealed by a magnitude 5 earthquake, the strongest to date, but the country may still be far from the ability to mount a strike  
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Our Changing Climate: The True Global Warming Hot Spots  
Climate change is often blamed for environmental problems and natural events, but not always correctly. There are, however, places in the world where global warming is having an effect, as our interactive map shows.  
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We're counting down to the CITES CoP! The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna... https://t.co/NGQhVrA0gj 
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The Maritime Silk Road: China's High Seas Ambitions  
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Britain's dormice have declined by a third since 2000, report shows  

Effects of habitat loss and climate change mean the future of the tiny native mammal is uncertain

Numbers of Britain's native dormouse have declined by more than a third since 2000, according to the first definitive report on the state of the species.

The tiny, golden-brown animals were once widespread throughout England and Wales, but have become one of Britain's most threatened mammals due to loss and fragmentation of their woodland habitat, changes in land management and a warmer climate.

Related: How the dormouse is returning to England's hedgerows after 100 years

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Genetic analysis uncovers four species of giraffe, not just one  
Up until now, scientists had only recognized a single species of giraffe made up of several subspecies. But, according to the most inclusive genetic analysis of giraffe relationships to date, giraffes actually aren't one species, but four. The unexpected findings highlight the urgent need for further study of the four genetically isolated species and for greater conservation efforts for the world's tallest mammal, the researchers say.  
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The Politics of Dress: Double Standards in the Headscarf Debate  
When cultures clash, women's clothing is often at the center of the debate. While for Western women, the issue is how much skin they should be allowed to show, for Muslims the focus is on how much they must show.  
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Colours of the morning - East London  

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Indigo bunting  

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Indigo buntings often migrate by night, using the stars to navigate. The seasonality of bird migration is shifting in response to climate change. As a result, birds in the United States are arriving at their northern breeding grounds earlier in spring -- and may be departing later in fall. Scientists supported by the National Science Foundation made the migration shift discovery thanks to information aggregated from two sources: remote-sensing data from weather surveillance radar and ground-based data collected in citizen science databases.

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Smartphone hacks 3-D printer by measuring 'leaked' energy, acoustic waves  

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The ubiquity of smartphones and their sophisticated gadgetry makes them an ideal tool to steal sensitive data from 3-D printers. That's according to a new University at Buffalo study that explores security vulnerabilities of 3-D printing, also called additive manufacturing, which analysts say will become a multibillion-dollar industry employed to build everything from rocket engines to heart valves. Unlike most security hacks, the researchers did not simulate a cyberattack. Instead, the researchers programmed a common smartphone's built-in sensors to measure electromagnetic energy and acoustic waves that emanate from 3-D printers. These sensors can infer the location of the print nozzle as it moves to create the three-dimensional object being printed. According to the researchers, the tests show that smartphones are quite capable of retrieving enough data to put sensitive information at risk.

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