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When you have 400 earthquakes on top of one of the largest supervolcanoes on Earth, people pay attention.
President George W. Bush on Tuesday will create three new marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean to protect the deepest place on Earth, some of the last pristine corals and sanctuaries for vanishing marine species.
In Chad, the ivory poachers have upgraded to automatic weapons.
Marine scientist John Bruno became interested in coral reefs as a boy snorkeling in the turquoise waters off the Florida Keys above reefs of golden corals the size of football fields.
That holiday gift from your tree-hugger friend may contain a hidden danger: biodegradable packing peanuts - a menace to plumbing pipes everywhere.
In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. Many will be finalized before Thanksgiving, so the 60-day waiting period will have expired before the Obama administration takes over.
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