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Article: Worth noting.(marine life discovered, Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's oil pipe leak, Brazil autos use ethonal extensively)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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* During a two-week dive in January 2006, researchers from Conservation International, the Netherlands Antilles government, and the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History discovered a marine life treasure trove. Among the find discovered in the Saba Bank Atoll (a coral-crowned seamount 155 miles southeast of Puerto Rico) were two hundred species of fish (including two new species of goby) and vast beds of seaweed (including at least twelve new species). This cache of biodiversity, however, is threatened by the petroleum transshipment depot on the nearby island of St. Eustatius.
* Even as George W. Bush continues to press for drilling in the Alaska ...