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Headline	Author	Published	Section
You Darwin Some, You Lose Some One coral species found able to adapt to warmer waters; others screwed		27 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
You Darwin Some, You Lose Some One coral species found able to adapt to warmer waters; others screwed Last year, unusually warm Caribbean waters killed some 40 percent of the coral around the U.S. Virgin Islands and weakened much of the rest. This year, wouldn't you know it, the waters are warming again. "It's impossible to overstate how important this is," says biologist Caroline Rogers. High ...
Topics: Caribbean, Hawaii, news, oceans, US Virgin Islands (all these topics)

Virgin Rebirth		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Virgin Rebirth Meanwhile, wetlands are also a matter of concern in a place that could scarcely be more different from Iraq: the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands Indigenous and Endangered Species Act of 1990 specifies that the policy of the territory is to "prevent a net loss of wetlands to the maximum extent possible," but about half of the mangrove wetlands on ...
Topics: land degradation, US Virgin Islands, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)