Sea turtles (Superfamily Chelonioidea) are turtles found in all the world’s oceans except the Arctic Ocean. There are seven living species of sea turtles: flatback, green, hawksbill, Kemp’s Ridley, leatherback, loggerhead and olive ridley. The East Pacific subpopulation of the green turtle was previously classified as a separate species, the black turtle, but DNA evidence [...]
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Sea Turtle
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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Ganges River Pollution
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
The Ganges is a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through the eponymous plains of northern India into Bangladesh. The 2,510 km (1,557 mi) river begins at the Gangotri Glacier in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the central Himalayas, and drains into the Bay of Bengal through its vast delta in the [...]
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Chernobyl Explosion
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
The Chernobyl disaster, or simply Chernobyl, was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union. It was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and the only instance so far of level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, resulting in a severe release of radioactivity into the [...]
Earth’s 10 Worst Current Environmental Disasters
July 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Being a human being in the year 2008 is kind of like waking up naked in a ditch after a long night of hard partying only to discover that you’ve burned your house down, spent your childrens’ college fund on blow and – surprise! – there’s a dead hooker beside you. Somehow, “whoops!” just doesn’t [...]
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Arsenic In Cambodian Water
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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The Bhopal Chemical Disaster: Twenty Years Without Justice
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments
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