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Profit in the Wilderness
An Australian company, Earth Sanctuaries Ltd., is aiming to turn a profit by protecting land and wildlife. The company, one of the first of its kind in the world, operates three Australian conservation sanctuaries and plans to buy land to create new sanctuaries, likely near Sydney and Melbourne. It intends to make money by attracting […]
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Jim Leichter, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory
Jim Leichter is a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This is his fourth saturation diving mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Wednesday, 14 Jun 2000 CONCH REEF, Fla CONCH REEF, […]
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Mercury in Retrograde
The Clean Air Network, a coalition of nearly 1,000 enviro groups, called on the U.S. EPA yesterday to require some 600 old, coal-burning power plants to reduce their mercury emissions by 90 percent. The aging plants, which were exempted from most pollution controls under the 1970 Clean Air Act, emit as much as 51 tons […]
