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...Japan has started to release radioactive water from its stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking retaliation from China which suspended imports of Japanese aquatic products....
...The Metals Company, a Canadian start-up that hopes to mine the depths of the Pacific Ocean for rare earth metals to power electric vehicles, has been hung out to dry by its largest Pipe investor....
...“Flood risk is also more people living in harm's way,” said Charles Iceland, director of Global Water Initiatives with The World Resources Institute's Food, Forests, Water and the Ocean programme....
...The creature, discovered in June, was filled with 85 plastic bags that it had mistaken for food....
...Its first foray came in 2005, through a joint venture with Philippine canned tuna maker Century Pacific Food, which had been doing business in China since the early 1990s....
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...This littoral sliver of Rakhine state feels like the edge of something, looking out on to the open Indian Ocean....
...Jamil Anderlini goes with Xiang Ju, a domestic servant in Beijing, on her 1,500km journey back to her home town on the Yangtze river....
...(FT) SpaceX third rocket retrieval fails The rocket made it back to an ocean platform but landed “too hard” to survive....
...That report highlighted the risk to global food markets from the rapid depletion of one crucial source: groundwater. Just over 97 per cent of the world’s water is in its oceans....
...Equities across Asia-Pacific were weaker, with losses amplified by data suggesting China’s services sector stagnated for the first time in nine years last month....
...Markets: Asia-Pacific equities are recovering thanks to a US manufacturing report that showed factories are humming in the world’s biggest economy....
...(Financial Times) - Almost 6,000 dead pigs pulled from Shanghai river. (Wall Street Journal) - Samsung makes big Galaxy 4 launch tomorrow....
...“Helicopters will ensure continuous supply of food, comfort items, flashlights in order to mitigate guests’ discomfort given the difficult conditions on board,” the operator said....
...Along the Brisbane River, the construction of an arts precinct has given Australia’s third biggest city a cultural edge....
...It is an overcast day in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Charles River is grey and choppy. The students scurrying through Harvard Yard are shrouded against the weather....
...There are literally oceans of the stuff as well as enormous amounts of brackish water underground....
...Japanese nuclear technicians have stopped the outflow of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant....
...But as the pollution spreads through the ocean, it is likely to induce levels of radioactivity in seafood which, while not harmful to human health, are detectable with sensitive modern instruments....
...In Mumbai, the BSE Sensex fell 0.6 per cent to 20,184.74. as rising food prices added to India’s inflation woes....
...From Crystal Palace to caramel corn, international expositions are all about the newest new things in architecture, technology – and even food....
...SMM owns the mineral rights to 60,000 sq m of the South Pacific ocean floor and Odyssey’s acquisition will allow it to branch out into the exploration of gold and copper....
...Where to stay While Lima’s colonial centre has some lovely squares and grand façades, many choose to base themselves by the ocean in Miraflores or San Isidro....
...It is responsible for up to a quarter of the particles in Los Angeles’s air pollution on the other side of the Pacific ocean....
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