Undersea National Monument Could Be Left High and Dry
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Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there? |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benning? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. T's and Cs apply. Exclusive vehicles. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome to Scientific Americans Science Talk posted on July 11th, 2017. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, |
| 0:39.5 | The monument contains an ecosystem that was undiscovered 30 or 40 years ago. It's got these |
| 0:45.6 | deep-sea coral species that live over a thousand years. That's Scott Kraus. He's the vice |
| 0:52.2 | president and senior science advisor at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium in Boston. |
| 1:00.0 | And he was one of the authors in March 2016 of a scientific assessment for a proposed marine national monument off the Northeast U.S. |
| 1:10.8 | That led to the creation last year of what's now called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts |
| 1:17.9 | Marine National Monument, which is already under threat. |
| 1:22.4 | I spoke to Kraus by phone. |
| 1:26.1 | Tell me what are the Northeast Canyons and Seamount's Marine National Monument? |
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