PHOTOS: "Pristine" Reefs Part of Planned Marine Reserve
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 23:35
in Earth & Climate
The remote protected area in the western and central Pacific--proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this week--would be nearly as large as Texas and Alaska combined.
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