Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger, open body of water. It is typically associated with the ocean, such as coastal lagoons and coral reef lagoons. Lagoon also can be us...
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It's been a decade since North Carolina banned pork farmers from building new hog waste lagoons.In that time, environmentalists have tallied the ponds' damage to rivers and land, and neighbors have...
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Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas and the Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council are embarking on a project to turn the island's East End lagoon into an environmental education center.The beach-front grasslan...
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8 a.m. San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico.This is it, I tell myself, as we board the van.Either I will commune with a friendly whale today, or this is absolutely the last time I will make a g...
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New legislation may help eliminate hog lagoons _ open pits of swine farm waste _ from North Carolina's agricultural landscape.State lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that permanently bans new lag...
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It's been a decade since North Carolina banned pork farmers from building new hog waste lagoons.In that time, environmentalists have tallied the ponds' damage to rivers and land, and neighbors have...
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A California sea lion has bitten at least 14 people and chased 10 others out of the water this week at a public park's lagoon, prompting the city to temporarily close the area to swimmers.
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City streets got an unscheduled cleaning as a sudsy citrus-scented foam erupted from manhole covers like geysers.The bubbles spewed from a three-block stretch on the city's east side Thursday after...
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A boat that plied the coast of the Holy Land 1,300 years ago carrying fish, carobs and olives is helping researchers better understand a little-known period in the region's history.The boat, discov...
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This tiny spot in the South Pacific was one of the last places William Bligh, captain of the H.M.S. Bounty, visited before the infamous 1789 mutiny.
Bligh, set adrift along ...
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Lagoon
North Carolina wrestles with hog lagoons
