Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.
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When teachers guide students in gaining awareness that industrial agriculture writ large, for example, results in chemical runoff from nitrogen-based fertiliers in the Mississippi River that in turn creates a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so large that it is visible to the human eye through satellite distant imaging, students are able to grasp the basis for sustainable agriculture.
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The identity of a man found dead in the River Thames in Berkshire last week remains a mystery and police have appealed for help from the public.
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The news comes as the toll of dead pigs pulled from Shanghai's Huangpu river passed 16, 000.
As for the Yamuna river, long the main source of the city's drinking water, it is clinically dead.
The work of fishing out the dead pigs in the river was "basically finished", the government said in a statement released on Sunday.
They also include the body of a man, aged between 25 and 35, that was found floating in the Jubilee River in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, in May 2004 and that of a man found dead alongside the northbound carriageway of the M40 in Oxfordshire.
"The Marcal river is dead, " said Tibor Dobson, spokesman of the Hungarian Disaster Management Agency - a reference to a smaller river which flows north from the disaster area towards the Danube.
Wei Jinpeng, the busy Lanzhou body fisher, keeps his inventory of dead people floating in a Yellow River cove facedown until customers buy the remains of their loved ones.
Incidents such as the recent discovery of more than 6, 000 dead pigs in Shanghai's Huangpu River, which supplies much of the city's tap water, make China a particularly hard sell, said Doreen Jaeger-Soong, managing director of legal recruitment firm Hughes-Castell.
The tally of dead pigs pulled from Shanghai's Huangpu River over the past two weeks has topped 14, 000, Global Times reports.
Police have released an artist's impression of a man found dead in the River Thames in Berkshire.
The 13 fishermen were found dead inside two Chinese cargo ships in October 2011 on the Thai side of the river.
Meanwhile, Shanghai residents, who are already jittery about water contamination from the dead pigs, are concerned over hundreds of dead carp that have been fished out of a man-made river in the city's Songjiang district since last week, China Daily says.
There are few experiences more thrilling than tracking and capturing a wild crocodile in the dead of night, on a river in the heart of the Central American jungle.
After thousands of diseased dead pigs were found recently in waterways near Shanghai, nearly 100 dead pigs have also been found floating in the Hejiabin River of neighbouring Jiangsu province, Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News reports.
Images of clothing a man was wearing when he was found dead in the River Thames in Berkshire have been released in the hope he will be identified.
At least 100 fish found dead in a stream off the River Usk in Powys died following the draining of a private fishing lake, say investigators.
Just last month, more than 10, 000 dead pigs from an unconfirmed source were fished out of Shanghai-area waters of the Huangpu River.
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