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Tourism, which sells luxury and indulgence, can be a profligate consumer of natural resources.
Worldwide, 50 million people play golf. Each year, up to 5,000 hectares of the Earth’s land surface - an area the size of Paris - is...
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AP, Ferndale
No one wants to be stuck with a large, uninvited visitor. Especially a sea lion on a family sailboat. Even more so twice in a day.
made popular Aug 5 2008
AP, Ferndale
No one wants to be stuck with a large, uninvited visitor. Especially a sea lion that makes itself at home on a family sailboat _ twice.
made popular Aug 5 2008
AP, Ferndale
No one wants to be stuck with a large, uninvited visitor. Especially a sea lion on a family sailboat. Even more so twice in a day.
made popular Aug 5 2008
It’s a landscape no human has even seen. And those who live right beside it had no idea it even existed.
made popular Aug 1 2008
AP, Acapulco
Environmental officials in Mexico say dozens of dead sea turtles apparently killed in fishing nets have washed up on beaches in recent days.
made popular Jul 26 2008
AP, Acapulco
Environmental officials in Mexico say dozens of dead sea turtles apparently killed in fishing nets have washed up on beaches in recent days.
made popular Jul 26 2008
AP, Dublin
A trio of English cocaine smugglers who were caught after putting the wrong fuel into their boat received the longest drug-related prison sentences in Irish history...
made popular Jul 23 2008
There is finally some good news for environment enthusiasts! A five-year ban on fishing around Lundy Island off the Devon coats has significantly revived sea life. The...
made popular Jul 16 2008
AP, Almaty
A dam project helped raise water levels and increase fish stocks in the northern part of the depleted Aral Sea, offering hope of some revival in areas of one of the...
made popular Jun 19 2008
AP, Atlanta
It’s going to be a busy Father’s Day for a weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium. For only the third time ever in a U.S. aquarium, one of the endangered...
made popular Jun 12 2008
Vast stretches of China’s coastal waters are seriously polluted, and the country’s coastal wetlands and mangrove forests are vanishing, Xinhua news agency...
made popular Jun 8 2008
AP, Los Angeles
A fisherman who admitted stabbing a sea lion that apparently took bait from his fishing line was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation.U.S. Magistrate Judge...
made popular May 16 2008
AP, Portland
The deaths of six sea lions found in traps on the Columbia River earlier this month were likely caused by the heat, the National Marine Fisheries Service said.Oregon...
made popular May 15 2008
AP, Portland
The six sea lions found dead in traps near a Columbia River dam were apparently not shot to death after all, federal officials said Wednesday, leaving unanswered how...
made popular May 7 2008
AP, Portland
Federal fisheries officials now say the six sea lions found dead in traps on the Columbia River apparently were not shot to death.Spokesman Brian Gorman of the National...
made popular May 7 2008
AP, Portland
For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds.Over the weekend,...
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Portland
Authorities are investigating the deaths of six sea lions on the Columbia River. At least some of them appear to have been shot.The carcasses of four California sea...
made popular May 4 2008
AP, North Bonneville
One by one, curious California sea lions checked out the open cage left invitingly on a platform in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam and flopped inside to chill...
made popular Apr 25 2008
AP, Portland
A federal appeals court handed an animal rights group a partial victory in a dispute over the fate of California sea lions in the Columbia River, allowing some to be...
made popular Apr 24 2008
AP, Tampa
Florida’s beaches lost a substantial amount of loggerhead sea turtle nests in 2007, giving the state its lowest nest count in 17 years, wildlife officials...
made popular Apr 20 2008
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