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Horror show: Yes, it's time again for Black Friday
Houston :: TX :: USA | 3 days ago
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Just check out the lines outside shopping malls and stores before midnight or 4 a.m. or whatever time they'll open tomorrow with their door-buster specials. The day after Thanksgiving starts early with shopping that can be part competition, part entertainment...
Tags: Houston, Environment, Shopping, Thanksgiving, Shoppers Drug Mart, Christian child's prayer, Wal-Mart, Debris, Water pollution, Catholic spirituality, Human Interest, Waste, Ocean pollution, Pittsburgh International Airport, Prayer forms, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Pacific Ocean, Black Friday, Landfill, Waste container, Retailing, Friday
UH selected as managing partner for Pacific Disaster Center on Maui
Kihei :: HI :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The University of Hawaiʻi announced today that it has been selected by the Department of Defense to negotiate a new cooperative agreement as the managing partner for the Pacific Disaster Center on Maui. The center provides applied information research...
Tags: disaster center, University of Hawai, pacific disaster, managing partner, Maui Economic Development Board, Kihei, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, University of Hawaii, Maui, Kihei Hawaii, Maui County Hawaii, Pacific Disaster Center, Pacific Ocean, Disaster Accident
Ocean Noise Initiative Campaign launched
Hawaii :: HI :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The launch which started at dawn from Suva’s National Sailing centre is based on the concern of protecting our ocean and ensuring a future for our people and our ocean. Maori actor, director and writer Rawiri Paratene who was the special guest to the...
Tags: Hawaii, Rawiri Paratene, Year of birth missing, Polynesia, Pacific Ocean, Fiji, Entertainment Culture, Cetaceans, Oceans, Marine mammals, Environment, Whale Rider
Scientists baffled by global warming's time-out
Kiel :: Germany | 8 days ago
Credibility Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 07:20 PST Temperatures haven't risen this decade, as climatologists expected...Secret volcano? At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December,...
Tags: Mojib Latif, climate change, global warming, Stefan Rahmstorf, degrees celsius, solar activity, Pacific Ocean, temperatures curve, Hadley Center, Jochem Marotzke, Germany, Kiel, Environmental skepticism, Global warming controversy, Solar variation, Climatologists, Environment
Pacific Andes set to sail world's biggest factory vessel
Qingdao :: China | 10 days ago
Credibility Integrated seafood company Pacific Andes International is positioning itself to ride the next big wave, which it believes will come from the South Pacific Ocean. Its new flagship factory vessel will go into operation next month, and this is expected to...
Tags: South Pacific Ocean, Pacific Andes International, Lafayette, China, Qingdao, Factory ship, Fish, Pacific Ocean, Trawling, Ng, Fisheries, Fishing industry
Hope floats on eco-celebrity?s recycled plastic boat, Plastiki
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Sure, the 60-foot catamaran made entirely out of recycled plastic looks majestic enough propped on a wooden pedestal here inside cavernous Pier 31...Not for the 11,000-mile voyage due to kick off next month, out the Golden Gate and across the Pacific...
Tags: David de Rothschild, Plastiki Expedition, De Rothschild, David Roman, recycled plastic, Josian Heyerdahl, Pacific, Thor Heyerdahl, San Francisco, Ocean pollution, Pacific Ocean, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Kon-Tiki, Sailboats, Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, Plastiki
Birds, boats threatened by the Great Garbage Patch
Hong Kong :: China | 12 days ago
Credibility Charles Moore has spent most of the past decade sailing through the Pacific. He could regale you with stories of sublime open-water majesty. Just not anytime soon. "It's a swirling plastic cesspool," says Moore of an area called the Great Pacific Garbage...
Tags: Charles Moore, Pacific Rim, Wayne Sentman, garbage patch, China, Hong Kong, Biological oceanography, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceanography, Project Kaisei, Plastiki, Ocean pollution, Pacific Ocean, Waste, Environment
Six months and 4,600 miles later, rowers claim record
Chōshi :: Japan | 15 days ago
Credibility Mick Dawson and Chris Martin are claiming the record as the first to row the roughly 4,600-mile passage across the North Pacific ocean, on a course that extended to nearly 7,000 miles thanks to unintended detours courtesy of the weather and ocean currents.
Tags: Japan, Chōshi, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate, Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, Ocean current, San Francisco Bay, Oceans, Chￅﾍshi Chiba, Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits, Cuisine of the Southern United States, Franchises
Pacific nations form major fisheries convention (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 15 days ago
Credibility Agreement was reached today on a new organisation to manage South Pacific fisheries. Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley announced a new convention text had been agreed which would create a regional fisheries management organisation to manage non-highly-migratory...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, Fishing industry, Fisheries management, Fish stock, Gillnet, Fisheries, International organizations, Pacific Ocean, Environment, Patagonian toothfish, Southern Ocean, Ghost net, Overfishing, Fishing net, Nototheniidae, Antarctic cod, Wild fisheries, Fishing, Drift netting, Bycatch
Sinking feeling
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 15 days ago
Credibility Drownings ... a passenger's body is unloaded at Tonga's Lifuka Island. Photo: AP Pacific Islanders catching ferries are concerned less about arriving on time than arriving at all. The dot states of the Pacific have some of the world's worst boating records.
Tags: Pacific Ocean, AP Pacific Islanders, Tonga, Nuku'alofa, Ship, Ferries, MV Princess Ashika
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