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    Roatán Island off the edge of Guatemala has recently discovered a five-mile-long pile of trash. The heavy rains from the hurricanes this past fall is where this trash has come from. Guatemala’s government doesn’t have a formal garbage collection. Roatán Island is located about fifteen miles off the edge of Guatemala. Trash pollution is becoming worse and worse in the Caribbean. Trash in ocean is harming more than 600 species worldwide. From what we can tell from the photos of the trash in Roatán

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    Red Mangroves

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    Shrimps and mud lobsters use the muddy bottom as their home.[10] Mangrove crabs mulch the mangrove leaves, adding nutritients to the mangal muds for other bottom feeders.[11] In at least some cases, export of carbon fixed in mangroves is important in coastal food webs. Mangrove plantations in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and India host several commercially important species of fish and crustaceans. Despite

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    Top 10 Coaches Heading into 2016-2017 I built this list with a couple of things in mind. I have tried to mix in their coaching resume, tactics, player development, coaching skill, who I would want to coach my team, among other things. Keep in mind this list is purely subjective as you can’t measure coaching ability with statistical analysis, the way you would when comparing players. So on that note here we go: 1. Gregg Popovich I don’t think anybody would argue with Pop in the top spot. He has

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    Home Interview Sample

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    daughters that live here with me, and two step children, a boy and a girl. We have four kids that are here. No animals, no pets of any kind. We used to have rabbits but no longer. In my spare time I enjoy reading, enjoying the outdoors. I have some bird feeders, I enjoy feeding the local wildlife, squirrels and everything. I enjoy that. Bicycling. I enjoy getting out and riding my bike.

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    Evolution of Sharks

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    Insert Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date: 08/July/2010 Sharks have been in existence for more than 300 million years. Their evolution occurred over 150 million years earlier than that of the dinosaurs. Most of the existing fossil data of early sharks was collected from fossilized teeth together with several skin impressions. primitive sharks (Cladodonts) , had teeth which were double-pointed, up to 2metres in length, ate fish as well as crustaceans, and existed approximately

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    Introduction. A swimming pool is an artificially enclosed body of water that is used for either leisure pursuits or to be enjoyed and utilised in aquatic sports. Pools range from all shapes and sizes and also varied use, for example, they could be private, public and competitive. Swimming pools are also built either above or below ground varying in the material they are built with, whether it is concrete, metal, fibreglass and or plastic. The key to operating a pool is keeping it clean and chemically

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    Every year there are thousands of oil spills that occur across the nation; both minor and major spillages. The oil from the spills typically arise in 3 areas: rivers, bays, and the ocean. Nearly all the accidents involving oil spills are a result of tankers, barge, pipelines, refineries, drilling rigs and storage facilities. When looking at the sources of the oil spills its estimated that oil tankers make up around 10 percent of the global marine oil pollution, natural resources is about 5 percent

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    and intertidally (Malham, et al., 2012) and are found widely distributed on tidal flats and on open coasts (Reise, 2003) where they burrow to just below the surface of the sediment (Richardson, et al., 1993). Cerastoderma edule are opportunistic filter feeders (Rueda & Smaal, 2002) and collect food particles with its siphons which are exposed at the sediment surface. This allows C. edule to collect prey whilst been relatively safe from predators and the ever changing

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    Iodized table salt: This is the most type of salt used in homes and kitchens. It is called “Iodized” because today, most salt manufacturers fortify the salt with mineral Iodine. It is an essential mineral for fighting off certain Iodine-related diseases like hypothyroidism. There’s also another natural way to get this important mineral into someone’s system by eating more seaweed, which is rich in Iodine. Sea Salt: Made from evaporated water in the sea. Their are larger and coarser crystals of salt

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    Ocean Clean Up Essay

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    More than half of the people on earth live within 120 miles of the ocean (Handwerk). The human race depends on the ocean for income and food. It is imperative to preserve it by continuing the practice of ocean cleanup. This paper will be providing reasons for ocean cleanup such as: the creatures that dwell in the sea, what the ocean does for the human race, and how the ocean relates directly to climate change. The ocean is a wide space of water that houses some of the most intricate ecosystems

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