Source: The Age
12:35pm:Here's the latest information we have on the tornado: Fifty one people are confirmed dead. At least 20 of those are children. The toll is expected to rise. It touched down at 2.56pm on Monday local time. Moore, po ...
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Source: International Herald Tribune
In years past, poachers from Grande Riviere and nearby towns would ransack the turtles' buried eggs and hack the critically threatened reptiles to death with machetes to sell their meat in the market. Now, the turtles are the fo ...
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Source: Environmental News Network
They say "April showers bring May flowers" and this year, April really did live up to its expectations of bringing down the rain. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the av ...
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Source: FOX News
April 8, 2013: A Japanese boat that washed up is seen in Crescent City, Calif.AP JUNEAU, Alaska – The five West Coast states affected by debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan are about to receive an initial $250,000 e ...
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Source: SouthCoastToday.com
BOSTON — The top regulators of New England's sagging fishing industry have asked fishermen not to take out their frustrations on the onboard catch observers who monitor what they pull up or throw back. The request came in an open letter t ...
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Source: SouthCoastToday.com
NEW BEDFORD — Scallop research grants totaling $3.1 million have been awarded to the UMass School for Marine Science and Technology, NOAA Fisheries Service announced Friday. That represents a sharp increase ov ...
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Source: Anchorage Daily News
A Seattle-based seafood company faces more than $2 million in fines after its employees on two Bering Sea catcher-processor vessels tampered with scales used to weigh fish hauls, according to federal fisheries managers. The National Oceanic and Atmo ...
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Source: KOAT
Texas on Friday became the latest state to sue BP, Halliburton and others tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, alleging the parties "engaged in willful and wanton misconduct" and seeking penalties ...
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Source: AlterNet.org
After the June 6 issue (with my letter) went to the printer a few significant things happened that relate to the letter that I’ll mention here briefly. On May 10, the White House published a 13-page document, “National Strategy for the Arctic Region.” I ...
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Source: LiveScience.com
This image of Texas taken by the GOES East satellite at 0045Z on May 16, 2013, shows the vicinity around Granbury, Texas, approximately 21 minutes before the NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center received a tornado report, at 0106Z. CR ...
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