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 Stories About: Caspian Sea
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Don't It Make My Brown Eggs Blue
U.S. bans imports of beluga caviar to help conserve sturgeon |
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30 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Don't It Make My Brown Eggs Blue U.S. bans imports of beluga caviar to help conserve sturgeon The U.S. -- destination for 60 percent of the world's beluga-sturgeon caviar -- yesterday announced a ban on beluga imports from the Caspian Sea, where sturgeon stocks have plunged by about 90 percent in the past two decades, a casualty of pollution and unlawful harvests. Legal caviar trade is worth about $100 millio ... |
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| Topics: Caspian Sea, marine life, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost
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04 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics) |
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