Runners overcome seals in Antarctic race
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NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters Life!) - It's billed as running's greatest adventure but participants in the eighth Antarctica Marathon described it as their greatest challenge after completing the harsh 26.2 mile course on Monday.
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A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday.
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Environmentalists again clashed with Japanese whalers Tuesday in the Antarctic Ocean, with Greenpeace activists failing in a risky attempt to prevent the fleet's factory ship from refueling.
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Sports: 28 December 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's alpinists Lyubomir Ivanov and Doychin Vassilev conquered the Antarctic Mizia peak.
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The collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf two years ago has accelerated the flow of glaciers into the nearby Weddell Sea.
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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. - A wayward Arctic ice seal was found Friday on a beach in southern North Carolina, far from its usual habitat.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Choking pollution and sapping heat will be the major concerns for the world's elite marathon runners at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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Venezuelan scientists and military officers set out on their country's first expedition to Antarctica, leaving Friday aboard an Uruguayan naval research ship.
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Protesters scored a victory in a high-seas campaign to disrupt Japan's whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill Wednesday while officials scrambled to unload two activists who used a rubber boat to get on board a harpoon vessel.
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Ice cores drilled from deep beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday, while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Japanese whalers and activists suspend hostilities in the hunt for two missing activists in the Antarctic.
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As activists clash with Japanese whalers on their Antarctic hunt, other anti-whaling campaigners are doing the once unthinkable -- getting out chopsticks and tasting whale meat.
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As Mark Amirault crossed the finish line, he didn't wear the expression of torture most runners have when they finish a cross-country race. He didn't look like he was gasping for air, struggling to walk, or grimacing because of the strain on his legs. He looked like he just stepped out of the sauna.
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VALENCIA, Spain  - Alinghi beat Team New Zealand in the first race of the 32nd America's Cup on Saturday in a tight fight that set the pace for the best-of-nine battle for sailing's most coveted prize.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a  Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday,  while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to  commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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A British deep-sea fishing boat wedged in Antarctic pack ice for two weeks was running again last night after receiving an emergency airdrop