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Flora of Napa County, California
Napa County is a small county in northern California encompassing nearly 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares), about 0.5 % of the landmass of the state. It is located 25 miles (40... More »
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The critically endangered dusky gopher frog,...
Amphibian species worldwide are in rapid decline. One of the most common reasons for this decline is the spread of the chytrid fungus. The dusky gopher frog Lithobates sevosus...
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Bathymetric Data Viewer
NOAA has made sea floor maps and other data on the world’s coasts, continental shelves, and deep ocean available for easy viewing online through its Bathymetric Data... More »
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European otter
The European otter (Lutra lutra) is a broadly distributed marine mammal found in both marine and freshwater systems over considerable portions of Europe, Asia and North Africa;... More »
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Measuring personal environmental exposures
Increasingly, tools and methodologies have begun to emerge that hold promise for capturing information about at least some of the environmental exposures that an individual may...
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Faroe Islands
Last Updated on 2012-05-21 at 08:02
The Faroe Islands are an archipelago of 17 inhabited islands and one uninhabited island, and a few uninhabited islets in northeastern Atlantic; precipitous terrain limits... More »
SS Gairsoppa recovery
Last Updated on 2012-05-21 at 00:09
The SS Gairsoppa recovery is a planned deep-sea operation in the North Atlantic Ocean, that is expected to retrieve the world's largest precious metals shipwreck salvage in... More »
Amur River
Last Updated on 2012-05-20 at 23:14
The Amur River, considered the Earth's tenth largest watercourse, has its headwaters in western Manchuria and mouth at the Strait of Tartary, which connects the Sea of... More »
Overfishing
Last Updated on 2012-05-20 at 22:57
Overfishing is the human act of extracting aquatic (that is, marine and freshwater) fauna from natural water bodies at a rate greater than the reproductive and recruitment... More »
Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas...
Last Updated on 2012-05-20 at 22:39
Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves is one of the ecoregions of Panama, situated on the Caribbean coast of northern Panama. Precipitation in this... More »
Water profile of Lithuania
Last Updated on 2012-05-20 at 22:33
Geography and Population
Lithuania, with a total area of 65,200 square kilometers (km2), is one of the three Baltic states. It is bordered in the west by the... More »
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