• In addition, the central California sea otter populations are vulnerable to extinction.

    CNN: Oil spill lessons offer hope for sea otters

  • That said, many of the newly identified deposits are located in the central North Sea or to the west of Scotland, and will require deep-water drilling which is expensive.

    FORBES: North Sea Oil and Gas may Provide One Third of Britain's Energy by 2020.

  • The acquisition is made up of BP's interests in both mature and newly developed projects including Harding (70%), Maclure (37.03%) and Devenick (88.7%) fields in the central North Sea, as well as BP's non-operated interests in the Brae fields complex and the Braemar field.

    BBC: BP to raise $1.1bn from North Sea field sale

  • As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical and biological consequences.

    ECONOMIST: Global warming

  • Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.

    FORBES: The Story Of Eau

  • Together with a newly created economic zone at Bandar Abbas, they are almost on top of the busy shipping lanes through which much of the world's oil passes and offer a logical staging-point for the trade from landlocked Central Asia to the sea.

    ECONOMIST: Iran��s little welcome mats

  • Air power and sea power are central to its plans for preserving U.S. presence in the Pacific.

    FORBES: Pentagon Budget Request Sticks With Obama Priorities, Ignores Deficit Law

  • The bananas travel in refrigerated containers from rural farms to urban sea ports in Central America, where they are shipped to the United States.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So while nothing's ever exact, just as in 1987 we presently have an unseasoned central banker seemingly lost at sea about the true nature of inflation.

    FORBES

  • The Hong Hom development will have views of the sea and glittering central business district, while the Ho Man Tin estate will offer views of nearby greenery.

    FORBES: Superman's Super High Land Bid

  • Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.

    ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal

  • The opposite is actually the truth because it is the central bankers who are floating precipitously out at sea.

    FORBES: ECB: "Roots Of Bitcoin Can Be Found In The Austrian School Of Economics"

  • Often biopics of this nature would show the life of the central character before his paralysis - but The Sea Inside does not.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Sea Inside's death debate

  • Turning to regional news, China voices opposition to the Philippines seeking international arbitration on a South China Sea territorial dispute, China Central Television reports.

    BBC: China media: Sex videos and houses

  • An hour's drive away is the Hairaton border crossing to Uzbekistan, which provides a link to a network of rail and truck routes that reach across Central Asia and Russia to Baltic and Black Sea ports.

    WSJ: U.S. Sets Stage for Exodus from Afghanistan

  • The company highlighted strength in Australia, China, and Saudi Arabia, along with higher activity levels in the North Sea, Eurasia, Nigeria, and Central Africa.

    FORBES: Halliburton Thrives Overseas To Offset U.S. Weakness And Beat Estimates

  • Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe, is also known as the "Hungarian Sea".

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • It is a richly structured landscape ranging from 600 m to 3, 000 m above sea level and encompasses typical ecosystems of the Central Alps such as mountain meadows and mires with great biodiversity.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • The GE Europe boss sees an "incredible boom" for the UK and Nordic countries as a result of oil exploration and discoveries in the North Sea, while many parts of eastern and central Europe are profiting from infrastructure investment from the 27-nation European Union.

    CNN: GE Europe chief eyes investment in Germany

  • Similarly, when an octopus changes skin color in self-defense, such as by mimicking a poisonous sea snake, the decision may come not from central command but from the skin itself.

    WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

  • So, look for energy resources to be coming from offshore Greenland, central Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, the North Sea, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Western Siberia and the Caspian says Schlumberger.

    FORBES: We Need To Find 36 Million More Barrels Of Oil A Day

  • The problem is that on the Carteret Islands, a horseshoe shaped scatter of small islands around a central lagoon, nowhere is more than 1.2 meters above sea level.

    CNN: Drowning islands warn of future perils for 'environmental refugees'

  • Riyadh is in central Saudi Arabia and Jeddah is approximately 500 miles west on the Red Sea.

    CNN: U.S. learns of possible terror plot in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  • Six British crew members and one American were killed Saturday in a midair collision between two British Navy Sea King helicopters over the Persian Gulf, according to the UK Central Command in Qatar and the Pentagon.

    CNN: Pilots dead after Patriot accident

  • According to Fan Di'an, vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the last five years has seen a sea change in Chinese policy towards the arts.

    ECONOMIST: Two leading art fairs are showcasing new art from China

  • In Central America, six countries all squabble over at least some stretch of their land or sea borders.

    ECONOMIST: Border disputes

  • Numerous helicopter companies (most based in Lihu'e) offer up-in-the-air jaunts over waterfall-striped Mt Wai'ale'ale, the island's central shield volcano and one of the wettest spots on Earth, and the sheer-hewn sea cliffs of the Na Pali coast, accessible otherwise only by ocean kayak.

    BBC: Hawaii for beach haters

  • Omer Kaya, 33, of Leigh-on-Sea, was shot in the neck on Tuesday while sightseeing in San Pedro Sula, the Central American country's second city.

    BBC: Omer Kaya

  • He said the indoor pool would be a central feature to the organisation's bid and all pools at the site would be connected with the sea.

    BBC: Saltdean Lido

  • Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A fossil skeleton found in central Nevada's desert years ago has been identified as belonging to a 30-foot-long sea monster that ruled beneath the waves 244 million years ago.

    MSN: Expedition finds 40 unknown gas seeps off US East Coast

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