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Aspen business partners Andy Culp and Brock Strasbourger say they want to protect what they say a “true, pure ski experience should be

Andy Culp and Brock Strasbourger, who bought the single-lift ski hill from Aaron and Jenny Brill last year, say they want to protect what a “true, pure ski experience should be"

June 8, 2023, marked 31 years of increasing awareness of the importance of the ocean to our everyday lives. 

Oxford University Museum of Natural History is to play a leading role in the largest programme in history to discover life in our ocean. The endeavour, known as Ocean Census, has set the ambitious target of finding at least 100,000 new marine species in the first decade.

Dr. Glaucomflecken, a fictional character created by a practicing ophthalmologist, is being touted as a potential presidential candidate due to his leadership, communication skills, judgment, integrity, political skills, knowledge, emotional intelligence, adaptability, respect for the rule of law, and the fact that he has a great first lady; his satirical short videos on medicine resonate with all physicians and others in the health care industry.

A journey to the bottom of the oceans - all five of them Lucinda Robb, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail "Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the Worlds Oceans" By Josh Young - - - Tired of being stuck at home? Maybe what you need right now is to escape somewhere that the coronavirus, political polarization and devastating natural disasters are nowhere to be found. But where on Earth could you find such a place? Simple: at the bottom of th...

Turning the tide Named after a zoological noun describing aquatic animals that can swim against a current, Nekton is valiantly trying to turn the tide via scientific exploration and protection of the ocean. You see, the not-for-profit research foundation believes in using data to achieve protected status for at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. Currently, only 8% of the ocean is part of a designated marine protected area (MPA). Of this, only 2.5% of the world’s oceans are in fully or...