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...decades, the only promise most Cubans saw in the ocean north of their island was the current that carries homemade rafts to Florida. That all changed a few years ago when geologists estimated that between 5 billion bbl. and 10 billion bbl. of oil lie beneath the waters off Cuba's northwest coast. Suddenly it seemed as though the hemisphere's sole communist nation might finally end its desperate dependence on oil-rich allies like the former Soviet Union and Venezuela - and perhaps even escape its impoverished economic time warp altogether...
...over two hours and decided that since the buffalo had been so anticlimactic, we had to finish the entire park. We learned later that we unwittingly walked four and a half miles. And so victory was sweet when we finally emerged from the park to see the Pacific Ocean stretch before us, with California’s famous Highway 1 hugging its shore. The elation I felt was surely equal to that of Lewis and Clarke when they reached the West Coast, though their trip had been slightly longer than my own. We took a quick picture by the park?...
...committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, which call for halving the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. The rally’s keynote speaker, Harvard Kennedy School student Hyoung-Joon Lim, spoke about his personal experiences in developing countries and compared worldwide hunger to the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed an estimated 225,000 people in 2004. “Hunger is a silent tsunami,” Lim said. “[Every] three days, the same number of people who died in the tsunami are dying from hunger.” Lim highlighted the obstacles...
...just goes to show how the ocean keeps its secrets very well.' DEMIAN CHAPMAN, scientist with New York's Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, after a virgin shark gave birth--the second known instance of parthenogenesis in sharks...
Consumers also can help save the seas--through the fish they buy. To that end, California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, along with the Blue Ocean Institute and the Environmental Defense Fund, is coming out with pocket guides to sustainable sushi. The groups base their ratings on the health of a wild fish's population (the popular bluefin tuna is restricted), along with the impacts of fish-farming operations. (Fast-growing oysters can be farmed sustainably, but salmon can't.) They also take into account fishing practices: catching bigeye tuna with thousand-hooked longlines can result in the unintended death...