Author: Vickie An
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Workers race to contain oil slick threatening wildlife
Cleanup crews are racing against the clock to contain a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The slick is the result of an explosion that occurred on April 20 aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The thick, black ooze is threatening miles upon miles of coastline…
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Feeling the heat: World leaders meet to discuss global warming
Last month, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, put on his scuba gear and dove 20 feet to the bottom of a lagoon. There, he held an underwater meeting. The purpose of the ocean-floor conference? To highlight the effects of global warming on his island nation. The Maldives, located in the Indian Ocean, is…