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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, Long Beach
A California-based rocket launching company says it has successfully fired a a communications satellite into orbit for Italy’s armed forces and NATO from its...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Jerusalem
An Israeli scholar is challenging the accepted wisdom about the Dead Sea Scrolls, claiming that the sect of ascetic Jews long thought to have authored the ancient...
made popular Mar 17 2009
AP, Washington
The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world’s biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts.
made popular Mar 15 2009
AP, Bonneville Dam
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says a sea lion trapped below Bonneville Dam is the first to die in a campaign to protect the salmon the animals feed on.
made popular Mar 12 2009
AP, New York
The son of a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar has been charged with using stolen identities on the Internet to trash an academic rival of his father.
made popular Mar 5 2009
At last, epopee with Faina, a ship hired to bring Russian ammunition in Kenya from Odessa Port of the Ukraine, captured by Somali pirates in open sea, was finished as a...
made popular Feb 15 2009
AP, Bangkok
The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all.
made popular Feb 15 2009
AP, Bangkok
The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all.
made popular Feb 15 2009
AP, Portland
Federal authorities say there is no evidence people had a hand in the deaths of six sea lions found in a Columbia River trap in May.
made popular Feb 5 2009
AP, Washington
Melting ice from global warming may raise sea levels even more than had been expected, an analysis suggests.
made popular Feb 5 2009
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ABOARD RESEARCH VESSEL POINT LOBOS, Off the California Coast (AP) _ A crane on a ship deck hoisted a 502-pound video camera and plopped it into the ocean for a...
made popular Feb 4 2009
AP, Dubai
Port operator DP World said Monday it is cutting costs and hoarding cash to cope with a slowdown that is worsening as the global economic slump grows more dire.
made popular Jan 26 2009
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The company, one of the world’s biggest cargo handlers, said trade growth at many of its ports _ particularly in Asia and parts of Europe _ slowed in the second...
made popular Jan 26 2009
AP, Dubai
Dubai port operator DP World says that while trade at its terminals grew in 2008, the slowing economy has begun hurting business.
made popular Jan 26 2009
AP, Spearfish
The activist animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked school officials to change the name of Spearfish High School to “Sea Kitten...
made popular Jan 9 2009
AP, Seatac
Officials in Seattle say fumes from a chemical used to deice airplanes have gotten into the passenger cabin of an airliner at Sea-Tac Airport.
made popular Dec 24 2008
AP, Anchorage
A federal agency proposed nearly 6,000 square miles of southwest Alaska shoreline be protected habitat for a threatened population of northern sea otters.
made popular Dec 17 2008
AP, Reykjavik
For centuries, Icelanders earned a living from the sea, setting out in small boats to haul cod, haddock and herring from the North Atlantic waters.
made popular Dec 16 2008
Indian Navy has shown the world once again after Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka and Operation Cactus in Maldives that it is one of the best in the world.
Only a few days...
made popular Nov 12 2008
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