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Industrial Sanctuary 2035

2015-02-27 19:25:53| PortlandOnline

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Australia's Plan for Antarctic Sanctuary Gains... Less Ground?

2014-10-21 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Australia's plan for creating a vast marine reserve off Antarctica has gained less ground, but the country said Monday it's still hopeful in the sanctuary's success. A bid for the Marine Protected Area (MPA) was first put forward in 2011 by Australia, along with France and the European Union. But the Commission of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) knocked back the idea, which would encompass 760,000 square miles (1.9 million square kilometers) of the Last Continent. So those down under...

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Obama to designate world's largest marine sanctuary in the Pacific

2014-09-25 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: President Barack Obama on Thursday will designate the largest marine sanctuary in the world in an area of the Pacific Ocean that will be off-limits to commercial fishing and deep-sea mining, the White House said on Wednesday. Obama will sign a proclamation that increases the size of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by six-fold to 490,000 square miles (1.27 million sq km/370,000 sq nautical miles). The White House said in a statement the area is "of particular interest because...

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