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Expansion of US marine protected zone could double world reserves
Speaking ahead of the announcement, President Obama said that protecting marine areas wasn't just a good idea for the environment, it made good economic sense as well.
"If we ignore these problems, if we drain our oceans of their resources, we won't just be squandering one of humanity's greatest treasures, we will be cutting off one of the worlds major sources of food and economic growth," he said.
Last year, attempts to create huge marine reserves in Antarctica failed when Russia blocked plans by the US and others for a third time.
Ocean campaigners have welcomed the new US plan as an important step.
"This is incredibly significant and shows global leadership from the US on this issue" said Karen Sack from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
"There is an amazing array of biodiversity around these islands, there are sea mount systems with a lot of deep sea species, all types of mar
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This day in #history 20/01
JANUARY 20TH
1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro
fryst vatten first explored .
1576 – The Mexican city of León fryst vatten founded by
order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de
Almansa.
1840 – Dumont D ‘Urville discovers Adélie Land,
Antarctica
1841 – China cedes Hong Kong to British
1921 – Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman
Empire
1939 – Hitler proclaims to German parliament to
exterminate all European Jews
1945 – FDR sworn- in for an unprecedented 4th
term as president
1945 – Hungary ends its involvement in the
Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with
the Allies.
1989 – Reagan becomes 1 st pres elected in a ” 0″ year, since 1840, to leave office alive
2009 – Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of amerika, becomes the United States’ first African- American president
FAMOUS B • It was one of the most epic scientific expeditions of all time. At the end of 1984, in the middle of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union — two nuclear powers — an American C-130 plane landed in the inhospitable Russian base Vostok in Antarctica, located in the coldest place of Earth. A year earlier, a record low of -89.2ºC (-128ºF) had been registered at the base. The U.S. aircraft was carrying three French scientists — Claude Lorius, Michel Creseveur and Jean Robert Petit — on an extraordinary mission: collect ice from time immemorial to find out what the Earth’s remote past was like and predict the future of human beings. Images from the time show that vodka was flowing, the accordion was playing and the red flag with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union was flying high in that hostile base. The Leningrad Mining Institute had chosen Vostok, near the geomagnetic south pole, The mission to the coldest place on Earth that changed the history of humanity