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Tons of Ocean Plastic Debris has Disappeared
2014-07-01 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Researchers say that plastic islands in oceans have disappeared. Millions of tons of plastic items end up in oceans each day. For over a decade, scientists have assumed that most of the plastic ends up as "plastic islands" that float on oceanic surface. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one such example of plastic debris accumulating on the surface of the ocean. However, researchers at the University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute now said that the plastic in the ocean is disappearing...
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Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared
2014-03-09 00:54:12| Airlines - Topix.net
In this July 6, 2013 aerial file photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco.
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Police re-enter Claudia Lawrence home in hunt for woman who disappeared in 2009
2013-10-29 08:20:24| Agriculture - Topix.net
Detectives are to search the home of missing Claudia Lawrence again in a bid to solve the mystery of her disappearance in 2009.
Woman, 83, who disappeared from airport Friday evening is found dead
2013-05-07 04:12:48| Agriculture - Topix.net
Victoria Kong's family was concerned about her growing memory loss and confusion, so they planned to have the 83-year-old grandmother checked out by doctors after she returned from Barbados, relatives said.
More than half of Chinese rivers have disappeared since 1990s
2013-03-29 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times: About 28,000 rivers have disappeared from Chinas state maps, an absence seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the irreversible natural cost of developmental excesses. More than half of the rivers previously thought to exist in China now appear to be missing, according to the 800,000 surveyors who compiled the first national water census, leaving Beijing fumbling to explain the cause. Only 22,909 rivers, covering an area of 100 square kilometres were located by surveyors, compared with...
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