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…This report was done on an article in Newsweek Magazine called “A Growing Coral Crisis”, written by Thomas Hayden, October 30, 2000. At a meeting of coral reef scientists, including marine biologist Peter Edmonds of California State University, North…

…in captivity, such as marine mammals and certain bird species. Pandas are notorious for difficult breeding in captivity. Taking animals from the wild to breed in zoo programs puts a drain on wild populations. The problems associated with breeding are not the only…

…at Brussels as the United States representative. Maury's system of recording the oceanographic data of naval vessels and merchant marine ships was thereafter adopted worldwide. In 1855, he published The Physical Geography of the Sea, which is now credited…

…of Charles Gleyre, where he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. By 1865 he had embarked on a program of outdoor painting of marine and forest subjects, townscapes, and figures in landscape settings. In the summer of 1869…

…dots on the radar screen. It took Robert Muller, and ex marine, a permanent back injury to realize that he was not an invincible fighting machine as his superiors presented it to him. He was just as vulnerable as the Vietnamese solders on the other side…

…scientific works covered chemistry, physics, electricity, magnetism, and optics. His chemical studies included “fixed air” (carbon dioxide), “nitrous air” (nitric oxide), “marine acid air” (hydrogen chloride), “alkaline air” (ammonia), “vitriolic air” (sulfur…

…to 1955 Comparatively speaking, little emphasis was placed on ecology (the study of the relationship of plants and animals to their environment) prior to 1955 Air pollution, toxic waste, marine pollution, pesticides, oil spills, acid rain, etc…

…to 1955 Comparatively speaking, little emphasis was placed on ecology (the study of the relationship of plants and animals to their environment) prior to 1955 Air pollution, toxic waste, marine pollution, pesticides, oil spills, acid rain, etc…

…formed the Federal Steel Company, and in 1901 he united it and various other steel companies to form the vast United States Steel Corporation. He also financed International Harvester and the International Merchant Marine. Morgan was not always praised…

…into a Forced Recon Marine, even though my mind knows it is just Luke stepping out of the underbrush.1 Foliage, there is an appropriate sound--and smell. Foliage, aged and weary foulness. I long for a dry breath of clear air from home where foliage is something…