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Jean-Michel Cousteau: use of oil dispersants...
The Rundown caught up with ocean explorer and occasional PBS host Jean-Michel Cousteau to chat about what his team discovered on dives in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon... More »
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the generation of electricity from controlled reactions within the nucleii of atoms that release energy used to boil water, the steam from which drives a... More »
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Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park, Andalucia,...
Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park lies along the Alboran Sea of the Mediterranean coast of Andalucia, Spain. The most arid area in the entirety of Europe, it boasts varied... More »
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Flora of Napa County, California
Napa County is a rural 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 »
Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 15:23
The Northwestern thorn scrub forests ecoregion represents a large expanse of degraded dry forest surrounding the Thar Desert. Neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in... More »
Pakistan
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 15:06
Pakistan is a nation of one hundred and ninety million people (mid-2013 est.) in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on... More »
Sulu Archipelago rainforests
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 14:29
Although these islands represent transitional stepping stones from the island of Borneo to Mindanao in the Philippines, they have evolved their own distinctive faunas. The Sulu... More »
Turkish Straits
Last Updated on 2013-05-24 at 13:41
The Bosporus and Dardanelles are the Turkish Straits and divide Asia from Europe.
The Bosporus is a 17-mile long waterway that connects the Black Sea with the... More »
Dardanelles
Last Updated on 2013-05-24 at 13:41
The Dardanelles (formerly known as the Hellespont) is a 38 mile (61 km) long waterway that links the Sea of Marmara (and through the Bosporus Strait, the Black Sea) with the... More »
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