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Aquatic Plants Choke Lake Olomega
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Published June 10, 2007
Water hyacinth, or Eichornia crassipes, ranks among the world’s most productive plants. Unfortunately, it has also proven to be one of the most troublesome. In 2006 in El Salvador’s Lake Olomega, where the aquatic plants are known locally as “ninfa” (the nymphs), they interfered with tourism, fishing, and even human health.
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Changes to the Saemangeum Estuary, South Korea
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Published May 17, 2007
Satellite imagery illustrates the beginning of a land reclamation project that will transform one of the largest tidal estuaries along the Yellow Sea into farmland and a fresh-water reservoir.
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Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes
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Published May 11, 2007
A distance of about 80 kilometers (50 miles) separates Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Despite this distance, however, the two acted in unison on April 26, 2007.
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