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2007 - Top Ten Man-Made Disasters

Natural disasters generally bring out an immense outpouring of grief from the general public. But when the disasters are man-made a quick rethink on what went wrong and how best it could have been avoided is...

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Pink Dolphins

Dolphins are widely known as ocean inhabitants, however very few people realize that there are several species of fresh water dolphins living in some of the largest rivers in the world. There are five...

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End of Baiji

On December 13 2006, the Baiji or the Yangtze River Dolphin, nicknamed the Goddess of the Yangtze was announced as functionally extinct, making it the first aquatic mammal to be extinct since the 1950s when...

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Chinese River Dolphin (Baiji)

 You may not be familiar with the Chinese River Dolphin, commonly known as the Baiji. They are a species that may or may not still be around due to the fact that we haven’t been able to find them but...

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Pink Dolphin in The Gulf Of Mexico

For two years, a rare albino bottle-neck dolphin with a bright pink skin has been the subject of much debate between marine biologists trying to study this rare creature and the boaters who travel the crowded...

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Indus Dolphin

  Most dolphins and whales occur only in the salty water of the world's oceans. However, there are four specially adapted dolphin species which have evolved to live only in freshwater river systems and...

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