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- Junk accumulating on Monterey Bay ocean floor: Scientists find…
- SANTA CRUZ -- Deep below the pale blue surface of the Monterey Bay lies a ton of trash. "We have even seen artillery shells -- large artillery shells -- spools of cable and a little unbroken teapot just sitting on the sand," said Diana…
- Santa Cruz Sentinel
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- 4 hours ago
Santa Cruz Sentinel- Will Micronesia Be the World's First Nationwide Park?
- Imagine a protected park half the size of the continental U.S., covering a sea-life-loaded swath of the Pacific Ocean and the 607 tropical islands therein. The park's inhabitants live mostly in traditional villages and still remember how to…
- Time
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- 1 hour ago
Time- Dog rescued from sea starts life with new master
- WARSAW, Poland -- Baltic, the spunky dog who floated at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) on an ice floe, has a new owner: The seaman who rescued him. Wojciech Pelczarski of the Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia said the decision was made…
- Washington Post
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- 04/02/2010
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- I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth
- Brenda Peterson’s memoir I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth begins with an account of a conversation that exemplifies a larger question that has preoccupied Peterson for much of her life: how can those who believe in…
- Popmatters.com
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- 2 hours ago
Popmatters.com- Webcam Helps Save Life of Man Lost at Sea
- Learn about the people, economy and history. (AP) Watch the sunset, save a life. A woman admiring the sunset on a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting…
- CBS News
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- 03/02/2010
- Baltic Sea leaders to discuss pollution at summit
- HELSINKI (AP) — Leaders from nine countries surrounding the Baltic Sea will meet in Helsinki on Wednesday for talks on cleaning up what organizers call one of the world's most heavily polluted marine environment. The Baltic Sea has been…
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- 15 hours ago
- An AR Editorial
- ... extinguished the light of hope that the Pons and Fleischmann announcement at the the University of Utah had brought to the world, and reduced us all again to the mire of dead sea life and ... Oil and all fossil fuel products would no…
- American Reporter
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- 4 hours ago
- Man vs marine in the Chagos Islands
- A major conservation row is developing over proposals for Britain to establish the biggest and most unspoiled marine nature reserve in the world. The issue of the Chagos Islands raises the increasingly difficult question of how to weigh up…
- The Independent
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- 8 hours ago
- Frederick Evans photos at the Getty
- Four or five images come to mind upon mention of the British photographer Frederick Evans: his transcendent view up a staircase in Wells Cathedral (the famous "Sea of Steps"); luminous pictures of the attic at Kelmscott Manor, home of the…
- Los Angeles Times
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- 7 hours ago
- How tiny turtle hatchlings make their first steps
- ... their nests towards the sea. This journey is treacherous: with every step, the tiny creatures face attack, and the unstable surface is notoriously difficult to walk on - especially for an animal with limbs that are adapted for a life at…
- BBC Science/Nature
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- 37 minutes ago