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Search results for "Sea World" ...
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Looting the Seas: How Overfishing, Fraud and Negligence Plundered the Majestic Bluefin Tuna
"A groundbreaking, multimedia expose on the $4 billion black market in bluefin tuna, the world's most coveted source of sushi." From professional fisheries to tuna farms in the Mediterranean and N. Africa, the business was "riddled with fraud, negligence, and criminal misconduct."
Tags: environment; fraud; fishing; bluefin tuna; sushi; black market; fisheries; overfishing; commercial fishing
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International Drive: Tourism's Main Street; I-Drive: How it Grew; I-Drive: Set to Boom
This series of stories traces the development of Orlando's International Drive, where attractions, restaurants, gift-stores and hotels crowd together to lure in tourists. After examining the history of International Drive, Leusner recognizes that the strip's heyday has past. He talks to business owners and developers to make predictions about the area's future.
Tags: Orlando; Disneyworld; tourism; Sea World; land development; property; immigration; international community; vacation; theme park
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Marine Attractions: Below the Surface
This investigation examined more than 3,850 deaths of marine animals since 1972. The authors found that animals are often mistreated during captivity, and that thousands have died under human care from clorine posioning, heat exposure, capture shock and stress. This in-depth look at the $1 billion - a - year marine mammal industry reveals that not only is it riddled with problems, but also that the government is doing very little to correct them.
Tags: zoo; National Marine Fisheries Service; computer-assisted reporting; Department of Agriculture; dolphins; whales; Sea World; aquariums
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Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria
This book is a narrative investigation that follows the Seeker, a scuba - diving charter boat, over the course of two summers as five of its customers die, all while diving at one of the world's premier scuba - diving sites, the wreck of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. The books exposes the safety issues within the scuba diving industry.
Tags: BOOK
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Blue Frontier - Saving America's Living Seas
Helvarg's book explores "the impact of history, commerce and policy on marine life" from the World War II until today. The author looks at the latest controversies related to beach closures, oil spills and natural disasters in the sea, and finds that "sensible politics can still halt the onslaught of industrial destruction, despite today's wide-open development along our coasts and in our offshore waters." The book follows "the money trail to the water's edge," and sheds light on how various industries vying for profits have spurred some of the today's major oceanic issues.
Tags: BOOK; endangered species; pollution; energy; seaweed; fishing; business; ocean; Navy; submarines; Cold War; intelligence; hurricanes; shipping industry; coastal real-estate development
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Arctic Heat Wave
The Progressive reports on the realities of global warming in areas close to the Arctic Circle. The story describes "the warmest summer anyone ... can remember" in Iqaluit, capital of the new semi-sovereign Inuit nation of Nunavit in the Canadian Arctic. "A world based on ice and snow is melting now...," reports the magazine. The story reveals that the changes are menacing to the local population, since some houses have eroded into the sea, and "food sources are getting farther and farther away."
Tags: Arctic; climate changes; Bush; politics; temperature; mosquitoes; hunting; forests; ice; wildlife
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Chemical Weapons Buried In the Backyard
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports on the burial and sea-dumping of large quantities of chemical weapons by the U.S. Army since World War I. These weapons are not only immediately dangerous if uncovered, they also pose serious environmental and health risks. Expensive clean up programs are underway across the country.
Tags: chemical weapons; mustard gas; Spring Valley; Environmental Protection Agency; War Department; American University; Army Toxis and Hazardous Materials Agency; Chemical and Biological Defense Command; Non-stockpile Chemical Materiel Program
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Feeding the World, poisoning the planet
In just the past two decades, industrialization, population growth and intense use of chemical fertilizers have doubled the amount of nitrogen in circulation among living things...And this sudden explosion of nitrogen has meant mounting worldwide environmental problems that promise to soon get worse and, some scientists predict, to reach the point of calamity." Some examples: More frequent algae blooms (red tides) kill fish and other sea life in coastal waters, invasive plants take over prairies in Minnesota, acid rain in the Blue Ride Mountains, visibility impaired in waters near the Great Barrier Reef, forest mushrooms disappear in Holland.
Tags: nitrogen; environment; water; red tide; algae; seafood; sewage; fishing; "dead zones"; praires; fertilizer; ammonia; farming; sea grass; Baltic; blue crabs; sea grass; agriculture; scallops; monk seals; sea lions; shrimp; hogs; Lake Pontchartrain
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Shell game
Other nations balked when the United States tried to force them to take steps to protect endangered sea turtles. National Journal finds the resolution of the dispute could have major implications for U.S. trade policy.
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Lost at Sea
Houston Chronicle investigates ominous trends in the world maritime industry, with emphasis on poor working conditions for third world crews and issues of public safety in the United States.