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 Stories About: Indian Ocean
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Spill 'er Up!
Oil spills from Japanese and Philippine tankers |
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15 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Spill 'er Up! Oil spills from Japanese and Philippine tankers It's been an oil-spillarific few days. A Japanese tanker, en route from Jordan, collided yesterday with a distressed cargo ship and spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude into the eastern Indian Ocean. The ship's owner claims the spill has been contained and there's no need to clean it up, as the oil will naturally dispe ... |
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| Topics: energy, Indian Ocean, Japan, Mediterranean, news, oil, Philippines (all these topics) |
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You're a Shadowboxer, Baby
Right-wingers exploit tsunami by accusing enviros of exploiting tsunami |
Amanda Griscom Little |
06 Jan 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Was global warming behind the recent catastrophic tsunami in the Indian Ocean? Of course not. Nor did it cause the Iraqi insurgency, the national debt, or Ashley Simpson's lip-synching episode. A devastated village in India. Photo: USAID. Global warming is an atmospheric phenomenon caused by a buildup of airborne greenhouse gases, and though it's expected to i ... |
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| Topics: climate, Indian Ocean, Muckraker, oceans, politics (all these topics) |
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