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Researchers raise red flag as important island off US coast vanishes into sea: 'All this open water ... was once grassy'
Losing marshlands can mean losing both fragile ecosystems and important buffers against storm surges. Researchers raise red ...
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Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats
Of all the kinds of whales that could have washed onto the Anchorage mudflats, a fin whale is one ... includes the waters up and down Alaska‘s coast all the way to the Arctic, they‘re rarely ...
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'Down East' magazine digs into Maine's mudflats
Each year, tens of thousands of words are written in praise of the beauty of the coast of Maine ... stop to say a kind word about Maine’s mudflats. The May issue of “Down East” addresses ...
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Hundreds of oysters found on NYC coast — indicating vital species is on the mend
A dozen volunteers counted some 700 oysters living in the mud flats of Powell’s Cove Park Wednesday as part of a city-wide initiative to restore the struggling populations so that the filter ...
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Skeleton of fin whale that washed ashore in Anchorage will go to Wasilla museum
The whale has now been on the mudflats for four months ... she worked at daily newspapers on the West Coast and earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon.
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Three rescued from mud flats at River Heads near Hervey Bay
An injured man has been taken to hospital after he and two others were rescued by a swift water crew on the Fraser Coast ... three who were stuck on the mud flats off Seafearer Drive, about ...