Human Remains Used in Artificial Reefs
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As if shooting a loved one's ashes into space or pressing them into artificial diamonds were not sufficiently offbeat, relatives of the deceased now can have their ashes mixed into concrete to help form ocean habitats.
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead
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Scientists attempt to pair coral with algae that is better able to withstand rising sea temperatures.
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Scientists are embarking on a project which will explore how global warming is devastating one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, coral reefs.
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Experts have determined that the remains of about 60 people found at a construction site in central Germany were from long before World War II, police said Friday.
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The discovery of fossils from a race of ancient, hobbit-like human ancestors on the Indonesian island of Flores earlier this year has triggered a small tourism boom, island officials say.
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Ocean researchers are conducting studies on New Jersey's bays, which have been beset by algae whose growth is fostered by fertilizers and other pollution. "The stuff is growing like wildfire," said Michael Kennish, a Rutgers University professor studying the effects of the algae and pollution that spawns it.
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Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an Earth-friendly source of fuel. Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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NORFOLK, Va. - In an unusual experiment two years ago, unwanted toilets, sinks and other porcelain products were smashed to bits and shaped into two artificial oyster reefs...
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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Electro-shock therapy is being tested as a way of saving some of the world's endangered corals.
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Science & environment: Over-fishing and run-off from agricultural land has caused damage to reefs, says new study
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QUINTERO, Chile  - Scuba divers off Chile's  Pacific Coast found sections of railway track on the ocean  floor on Wednesday believed to have been used to sink the  bodies of people killed under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
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By Anonymous  Size and shape may predict the survival of coral reefs around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
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Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
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Two decades ago, Greg Marshall was diving off the reefs of Belize studying queen conchs when he noticed a reef shark passing by with a remora clinging to its belly. The thought occurred to Marshall, who was then a graduate student in marine environmental science, that if a camera could be attached...
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  arduous task of putting names to thousands of unidentified  bodies, including those of the many missing foreign tourists.