All articles from: August, 2011

Top 9 Areas for Preserving Marine Mammals

Preserving just 4 percent of the ocean habitat could help 84 percent of marine mammals.

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Marine mammal conservation studied

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 29 (UPI) — Preserving a key 4 percent of the world’s oceans could protect vital habitat for most of Earth’s marine mammals, U.S. and Mexican researchers say.

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Preserving four percent of the ocean could protect most marine mammal species, study finds

Preserving just 4 percent of the ocean could protect crucial habitat for the vast majority of marine mammal species, from sea otters to blue whales, according to researchers at Stanford University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Their findings were published in the Aug. 16 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]

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Marine Corps sets new guidelines for anthrax vaccine

The revised rules lower the number of Marines required to be vaccinated, reduce injections from six to five and change how they are administered.

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Defence shipyard eyeing markets in Middle East, Africa

Panaji, Aug 24 (IANS) Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL), a public sector defence ministry operated shipyard, is actively looking at shipbuilding and marine maintenance markets in the Middle East, East Africa and West Africa, and South Asia.

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Woman turns mourning for her Marine boyfriend into a Marine career of her own

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. – When her Marine boyfriend died in a helicopter crash off the Horn of Africa in 2006, Lesley Reed was lost.

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Martin Berndt, Marine general and Springfield grad, dies at 63

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Martin R. Berndt, formerly of Springfield Township, died Aug. 17, 2011, at his home in Hubert, S.C. He was 63.

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East Africa: A Marine’s Journey to Peace Through Kibera

Western donors funding the dozens of local non-governmental organisations working in Kibera and other slums in Kenya might want to take the time to read It Happened on the Way to War. Rye Barcott’s memoir may just change their views about the lucrative business that philanthropy has become.

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East Africa: A Marine’s Journey to Peace Through Kibera

Western donors funding the dozens of local non-governmental organisations working in Kibera and other slums in Kenya might want to take the time to read It Happened on the Way to War. Rye Barcott’s memoir may just change their views about the lucrative business that philanthropy has become.

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East Africa: A Marine’s Journey to Peace Through Kibera

Western donors funding the dozens of local non-governmental organisations working in Kibera and other slums in Kenya might want to take the time to read It Happened on the Way to War. Rye Barcott’s memoir may just change their views about the lucrative business that philanthropy has become.

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