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Friday, August 10, 2012
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New Zealand’s Air Force Discovers The Ocean is a Weird-Ass Place

While on a routine maritime patrol mission yesterday between Samoa and New Zealand, a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion spotted a rather unusual field of

August 10, 2012
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Monday, March 19, 2012
New Try To Solve Earhart Mystery
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New Try To Solve Earhart Mystery

What became of Amelia Earhart’s plane when it disappeared over the Pacific 75 years ago has long intrigued aviation fans. On Tuesday, U.S. government

March 19, 2012
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Extraction Impossible? Rare-Earth Mineral Reserves Found in Pacific
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Extraction Impossible? Rare-Earth Mineral Reserves Found in Pacific

SINGAPORE — Japanese explorers have found large deposits of rare-earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, British journal Nature Geoscience

July 5, 2011
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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Garbage Patch – Plastic Island in the Pacific

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

July 6, 2010
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Friday, July 2, 2010
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Mapped

(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

July 2, 2010
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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Bush to Protect More of The Pacific

Today, President Bush will designate vast stretches of American-controlled Pacific Ocean including islands, reefs surface waters and sea floor as marine

January 6, 2009
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