They are belching out dark water - "a stunning sight", one scientist said.
He dropped his trunk into the dark water, and then raised it to pour gallons and gallons of water down his gullet.
When sea ice melts, the newly exposed dark water absorbs radiation rather than reflecting it, as snow or ice would.
If I'm a dolphin I know my name and I know your name and we could recognize each other right away, even in dark murky water.
And all this interspersed by hours adrift on the river, planks and ropes gently creaking in the wind, the water dark and cool, the night sky clear above.
The shark is once again a dark spot in the water as it swims from the boat.
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We could not lightly draw water after dark, for there were snakes swimming in the pools or clustering in knots around their brinks.
After witnessing the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, which still keeps large swaths of New York City in the dark and without running water, Bloomberg decided that it was time to back President Obama for a second term.
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Three basaltic peaks soared high above the lush forests, the surrounding water a milky dark green hue due to the volcanic sand below.
He put a barrel of water in a dark room, a light at the top of it, and punched a hole in the barrel's side.
Although more than twice as long, and with a more modern design, this dark hull sliding through the water in Annapolis was similar in many ways to Calypso.
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"The guess is that both the water and the dark material, which we think is organic-rich material, were delivered by the same objects impacting Mercury: some mixture of comets and the kinds of asteroids that are rich in organic and volatile material like water ice, " Prof Solomon said.
The longer the aging, the better the flavor and tenderness, but also the more the shrinkage as water evaporates and a dark crust develops, which must be cut away.
There were bees, and the angle of the sun made the water of the shallows look dark.
Those who have watched Zero Dark Thirty now at least know that water boarding is not some sort of water sport.
"This summer will blow 2008 (the year of 'Iron Man' and 'The Dark Knight') out of the water, " predicted Bill Ramey of Batman-on-film.com.
If you watch closely, you can see them from the shores of Istanbul: The sudden flash of a dark grey dorsal fin cutting through the water.
The sequence of woodland vistas, the revelations of scale and distance, light and dark, building and nature, land and water, as one approaches the entrance, were superbly orchestrated by Wright.
In these areas, the water appears to be covered by a dark material that the researchers suspect might be complex organic molecules.
True or not, it was a sound excuse not to join the seemingly mad Icelanders hurling themselves into the 3.5C (38F) water of Reykjavik harbour on a pitch dark November evening.
The machine blends iron, bleach and sodium hydroxide to form a dark purple liquid mixture of ferrate, salt and water that gets metered into the water supply. (The color disappears instantly as it reacts with the water.) Common disinfectants ozone and chlorine can turn the water cloudy or, worse, leave behind harmful chemical by-products.
Not so China's poorer interior, where the dark colour of colas is associated with the dark tea traditionally used to mask the sediment in the local water.
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Once you enter the dark space where a dramatic spotlight shines on a 100sqm patch of falling water, the sound of the shower and the feeling of moisture in the air immediately gives the familiar impression of being caught in a downpour.
Upriver here and at the Sandrift River, which runs parallel 10 miles to the east, the colour of the water is striking - imagine looking into a cup of strong, dark coffee.
As you walk across the plank that connects Brooklyn to lower Manhattan, you are transported from a world of electricity, hot water, and street life, to one that feels like a dark movie set.
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This will not stop fracturing opponents from casting a dark cloud over fracturing based on air quality hysteria, just as they did regarding water quality.
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Blumenauer was a key early supporter of Kerry, sticking with the Massachusetts Senator through the dark days of 2003 when Kerry's campaign appeared to be dead in the water.
Viana was again immersed in thought, although now he had removed his foot from the water and placed it again with the tip of the sock wet and dark on the grass.
Every year millions of water birds arrive from the Arctic to UK coasts, but until now scientists remained largely in the dark about how these birds respond to the bright lights of coastal cities and industry.
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