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                    [Title] => Oceanic junk ranges from Legos to suspected jet wreckage
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For years along the Cornish coast of Britain, Atlantic Ocean currents have carried thousands of Lego pieces onto the beaches. In Kenya, cheap flip-flop sandals are churned relentlessly in the Indian Ocean surf, until finally being spit out onto the sand. In Bangladesh, fishermen are haunted by floating corpses that the Bay of Bengal sometimes puts in their path.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-14 13:12:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772530 [AuthorName] => Tim Sullivan [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150815/Garbage-Sea-Shore-Trash.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1304927 [Title] => Big climate report: Warming is big risk for people [Summary] =>

If you think of climate change as a hazard for some far-off polar bears years from now, you're mistaken.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-25 02:32:54 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1743093 [AuthorName] => Seth Borenstein [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1282518 [Title] => NOAA: World in 2013 was 4th hottest on record [Summary] =>

The sweltering year of 1988 first put global warming in the headlines and ended up as the hottest year on record. But on Tuesday, it was pushed out of the top 20 warmest by 2013.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-24 02:03:16 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1743093 [AuthorName] => Seth Borenstein [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/547/csrm.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1281711 [Title] => US: World in 2013 was 4th hottest on record [Summary] =>

The average world temperature was 58.12 degrees (14.52 Celsius) tying with 2003 for the fourth warmest since 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-22 08:16:08 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1743093 [AuthorName] => Seth Borenstein [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1242483 [Title] => Crocodiles disappearing as dinner in Jamaica [Summary] =>

Crocodiles were once so abundant along the salty rim of southern Jamaica that images of their toothy jaws and spiny armor crown the tropical island's coat of arms and are stenciled on the bumpers of military vehicles.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-07 04:00:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249328 [AuthorName] => David McFadden [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 919997 [Title] => New Zealand suffering biggest drought in 30 years [Summary] =>

Dairy farmer John Rose has sent more than 100 of his cows to the slaughterhouse over recent weeks as a severe drought browned pastures in New Zealand's normally verdant North Island.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-15 08:57:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1373/imagebqb.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 866687 [Title] => Eden Project: Regaining hope for human and ecological communities from disused mining pits [Summary] =>

What makes a 60-meter deep, 15-hectare, 170-year-old china clay open pit one of the most popular and profitable tourist destinations in England at par with the Tower of London?

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1149224 [AuthorName] => Augustine Doronila, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730169 [Title] => Falling satellite slows down, Earth strike delayed [Summary] =>

A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-24 08:44:32 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 706699 [Title] => Team Prima bowlers bag six medals [Summary] =>

Marie Alexis Sy of Team Prima spearheaded the Philippine’s fourth place finish in the 13th Asian Schools Tenpin Bowling Championship with one gold, one silver and four bronze medals over the weekend at the Esplanade Centre in Bangkok Thailand.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325438 [Title] => March 15 eclipse to be seen in RP [Summary] => Rise at moonset, and catch the moon cross the earth’s shadow to the southwest.

A penumbral eclipse visible in the country on the night of March 15 will also be visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, according to astronomer Elmor Escosia of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).

"The eclipse begins when the moon enters penumbra at 5:21 a.m. and ends at 10:13 a.m. However, the moon sets at 6:07 a.m., so the rest of the event can no longer be seen in the country," Escosia said.
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