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Conservationists keep pressing for Atlantic Ocean monuments
2016-07-11 08:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Times: Environmental conservationists aren't giving up on trying to persuade the White House to designate an area in the Gulf of Maine as a national monument. In the final months of President Barack Obama's term, they're hoping he'll protect an underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem in the Gulf of Maine known as Cashes Ledge. They also want him to protect a chain of undersea formations about 150 miles off the coast of Massachusetts known as the New England Coral Canyons and Seamounts. The White House...
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7 monuments, cities world treasures could lose rising sea levels
2016-05-27 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: 7 monuments, cities and world treasures we could lose to rising sea levels These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years. Every year the worldwide sea level rises about 3 mm. That doesnt sound like much, just a little over a 1/10 of an inch, but even that small rise spread out over the entire ocean is a lot of water. Multiply that over years and decades, factor in an increased rate of rise (thanks to our growing addiction...
Conservationists to press on for Atlantic Ocean monuments
2016-03-29 19:09:48| Waste Management - Topix.net
Environmental conservationists dealt a blow by President Barack Obama's decision not to create a national monument in the Atlantic Ocean say they will keep pressing for preservation. The White House Council on Environmental Quality said last week that Cashes Ledge is not under consideration for monument status.
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INTACH out, ASI to restore monuments at Lodi Gardens
2014-07-07 03:42:57| Steel - Topix.net
The project was being funded by the Steel Authority of India Ltd under its corporate-social responsibility through the National Culture Fund After sparring with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage for more than four years over the restoration of the 15th century monuments in Lodi Gardens - an initiative that was touted as the ... (more)
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'The Monuments Men' pulls an A-team cast
2014-02-06 07:51:45| Electronics - Topix.net
In this Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 photo, from left, actor Bob Balaban, director, screenwriter and actor, George Clooney, actor John Goodman, actor Bill Murray, actress Cate Blanchett, actor Matt Damon and screenwriter Grant Heslov pose during a photocall for "The Monuments Men" at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Los Angeles.
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