Take a ride with Elena, a very brave and adventurous biker from Russia who chronicles
her rides through Chernobyl with a photo essay on her website.
Dandy, beloved and faithful steed of Darcie Nielsen for
over 30 years, died March 5, 2004 on San Juan Island.
-San Juan Islander
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SACRAMENTO (AP) - A decades-long explosion of
coastal development combined with California's rapid
population growth is significantly stressing a Pacific Ocean
that absorbs sewage, chemicals, oil runoff and a host of
other destructive impacts, members of the Pew Oceans
Commission told state lawmakers today.
-The Mercury News
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Delays are largely inevitable in the process of building anything,
particularly a large subdivision, on the Coastside.
-Half Moon Bay Review
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PORT CHARLOTTE -- Cassie Wagner hates the smell of
bug repellent, almost as much as the mosquitoes themselves,
but that's not why she invented her own.
-Daytona News-Journal
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Picture this: Farmers in the San Luis Valley - one of the
poorest parts of Colorado - grow soy that is converted to
an alternative fuel that powers the snowplows that clear
Durango's streets of winter snow.
-Durango Herald
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government banned commercial
fishing for swordfish in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean in order
to protect endangered sea turtles that were being killed or injured
by the hooks.
-The Mercury News
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CARLSBAD — The state announced Thursday it has slowed
down its attempt to stop waste currently labeled “high-level”
from coming to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
-Carlsbad Current-Argus
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One by one the fish hit the water, and slide to the ocean floor,
dead. The 400 pounds of cod Nieuwkerk's crew dump that day
would have earned them $600, at least, at the next day's
Portland fish auction. Yet days spent fighting wind and waves
often end this way, with the New England fisherman's most
despised ritual.
-Boston Globe
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