Sometime in mid December, sampling devices will be lowered through the ice, lights picking out the descent for HD cameras, down into the black depths of the lake.

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He has rafted rivers in Yakutsk, dodged grizzly bears and black flies around Great Slave Lake (his record for fly bites is two hundred in a single night), and scouted rock formations on the Skeleton Coast, sometimes hiking more than twenty miles a day.

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He finally saw her, a big black shadow moving slowly near the lake's bottom.

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Then, beyond a lake populated by flocks of black swans, there is the first sight of the Tongariro mountain range.

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The stream now carries black sediment of waste coal which eventually flows into Lake Kariba.

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Dr. Kennett and colleagues have published evidence in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a "black mat" from the sediment of a Mexican lake dates to 12, 900 years ago and shows a sudden peak of magnetic and carbon spherules, "nanodiamonds" of a kind known as lonsdaleite, and charcoal: all of it evidence of extreme heat.

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"Black Rock, " follows three childhood friends, played by Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Ms. Aselton, as they head out to a remote island for a girls reunion weekend.

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"Every August, we'd pile into the car and head to our cottage on Lake Linoleum, " Clinton says in the ad, which plays over a black and white snapshot of an astoundingly cute Clinton as a toddler, reaching for the camera.

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Traffic cones, road signs, bottles, shoes and an old black and white car registration plate were among the rubbish found in a clean-up of Windermere in the Lake District.

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