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Debris on beach near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Debris collected from beaches on Tern Island in the French Frigate Shoals over one month. Researchers classify debris as either land- or ocean-based; in 1991, the United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution estimated that up to 80% of the pollution was land-based, [5] with the remaining 20% originating from ...
Costco Connection is a magazine sent free to the Costco executive members; it can also be accessed online by anyone, free of charge. [157] As of 2024, the magazine is distributed to 15.4 million households and has 300,000 copies at warehouses. It has the third-highest magazine circulation in the United States, behind two AARP magazines. [158]
California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast.It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south.
In the U.S., approximately 20% of pets are returned to the original shelter within six months of their initial adoption, according to WorldAnimalFoundation.org.
Arizona (/ ˌ ær ɪ ˈ z oʊ n ə / ⓘ ARR-iz-OH-nə; Navajo: Hoozdo Hahoodzo [hoː˥z̥to˩ ha˩hoː˩tso˩]; [10] O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak [ˈaɭi̥ ˈʂɔnak]) [11] is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
In OMZs oxygen concentration drops to levels <10 nM at the base of the oxycline and can remain anoxic for over 700 m depth. [7] This lack of oxygen can be reinforced or increased due to physical processes changing oxygen supply such as eddy-driven advection, [7] sluggish ventilation, [8] increases in ocean stratification, and increases in ocean temperature which reduces oxygen solubility.
Texas (/ ˈ t ɛ k s ə s / ⓘ TEK-səss, locally also / ˈ t ɛ k s ɪ z / TEK-siz; [8] Spanish: Texas or Tejas, [b] pronounced) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
They built an urban complex of more than 100 platform and burial mounds, a 50-acre (20 ha) plaza larger than 35 football fields, [18] and a woodhenge of sacred cedar, all in a planned design expressing the culture's cosmology. Monks Mound, the center of the site, is the largest Pre-Columbian structure north of the Valley of Mexico.