Oceanariums Tuesday April 23, 1996 at approximately 8 a.m. Florida's Homosassa Springs Park was the sight of a joyous event. Sweet Pea, a wayward manatee rescued more than 900 miles from her home, was ready to be introduced to the wild. The 1,450 pound manatee was spotted near a municipal was...

Introduction On March 24, 1989, at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We've fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, ...

Estonia is a European country located in the northwestern portion of Eastern Europe. The Baltic Sea borders Estonia to the west. Latvia is on the southern border and the Russian Federation is located on the eastern border. Northern Estonia faces the Gulf of Finland and beyond that is its norther...

Since the beginning of time, human being's have taken advantage of the oceans by using them as a dumping ground. Soda bottles, food wastes, plastic pellets, old tires, fishing equipment, and many other types of debris are dumped into the oceans. This senseless act is killing innocent sea anim...

Greenpeace History The year 1996 is a year of celebration for greenpeace. They are celebrating their 25th year anniversary. Everything startde in 1969; Members were part of the ''Don't make a wave'' committee in vancouver. This committee was founded by Jim Bohlen. ...

Animal testing Everything startde in 1969; Members were part of the ''Don't make a wave'' committee in vancouver. This committee was founded by Jim Bohlen. He was a forty-three year old American and was a composite-materials researcher. Another founder of the c...

Joel Sharrer November 11, 1999 Research Paper #1 S. Rheingans Sound Progress The Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska proved to be a disaster on many levels. The coastline, wildlife, and people of the all area were all devastated by the spill. Ten year...

Scott O'Dell "Places I have known, creatures I have loved are in Island of the Blue Dolphins..." --Scott O'Dell, "Newberry Award Acceptance" Speech, Horn Book, August, 1961 Scott O'Dell, an award winning author of more than twenty books, was a natu...

Scientific Classification: Order & Genus. The scientific order of all types of whales is Cetacea. This large order is broken down into three further groups as well: the toothed whales or Odontoceti, which includes killer whales, dolphins, porpoises, beluga whales, and sperm whales, the baleen w...

There are people who won't even step foot in the ocean for fear of being eaten alive by a shark. But who would disagree. A shark is the perfect destroying machine. It's enormous in size and it's razor sharp teeth make it one of the most feared creatures by man. But are sharks really ...