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Extraction Impossible? Rare-Earth Mineral Reserves Found in Pacific

By On July 5, 2011

SINGAPORE — Japanese explorers have found large deposits of rare-earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, British journal Nature Geoscience reported. While the discovery has the potential to [...]

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Garbage Patch – Plastic Island in the Pacific

By On July 6, 2010

With all the recent talk of the Gulf Oil Spill and its effect on the marine environment it is good to take a moment and look at some of the [...]

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Mapped

By On July 2, 2010

(Source: IMC Brokers) In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure [...]

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Bush to Protect More of The Pacific

By On January 6, 2009

Today, President Bush will designate vast stretches of American-controlled Pacific Ocean including islands, reefs surface waters and sea floor as marine national monuments that will serve to limit fishing, mining, [...]

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