Sea otter populations off the Aleutian Islands have dropped by 80-90 percent since the 1970s.

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Perhaps most important, though were five mummified Unangan hunter-gatherers from the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific ocean.

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It grew out of a committee protesting against American nuclear testing in the Aleutian islands, whose ship was called Greenpeace.

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He received a Royal Television Society award for his reports on the military build up in the Aleutian Islands, as part of the Reagan administration's New Maritime Strategy.

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In societies in two of the regions covered in the new report the Aleutian Islands and Peru people often lived in poorly ventilated underground shelters where women cooked with wood and oil.

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From that commitment sprang an effort to save the great Redwoods of California and the Petrified Forest of Arizona, the great bird rocks of the Aleutian Islands and the Tongass of Alaska.

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Holiday says the idea to start Eleutian (named after the Aleutian Islands, which stretch like a broken bridge between America and Asia) began when he returned home to Ten Sleep after spending a decade working in the telecom sector in South Korea.

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In the first phase, the exercise will consist of ten different scenarios to allow each participating country to respond to a regional or local tsunami following a powerful earthquake off the shores of Russia, Ryukyu Islands, west and east of the Philippines, Vanuatu, Tonga, Chile, Ecuador, Central America, and Aleutian Islands.

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