Positive news from Northern Marianas
George W. Bush turns green to save marine treasuresWashington, D.C., USA - President Bush is to create the world's largest marine protection area in the Pacific Ocean.
"We're not going to stop now. Once Obama gets in we’re going to keep pushing. We need these waters to be fully protected."
- Agnes McPhetres, regional environmental activist |
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More positive news from Northern Marianas
George W. Bush turns green to save marine treasuresWashington, D.C., USA - President Bush is to create the world's largest marine protection area in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Deep-Sea Volcano Erupts on Film—A FirstNorthern Mariana Islands - Billowing ash plumes, molten sulfur droplets, feisty shrimp feasting on fish killed by noxious gases, red lava jetting from a ventthey're all part of the action recently filmed at an underwater volcano in the western Pacific Ocean. |
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News from Oceania
- New Zealand legalises same-sex marriage
- New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia
- This week, a shark sanctuary the size of Australia has been established
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- New radio telescope to watch for solar flares
- Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad
- Tokelau islands shift to 100% solar energy
- Australia Acts To Stop Super-Trawler
- Australia to create world’s largest marine reserve
- KFC Australia stops using palm oil