<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/656ce128-5e8a-40c8-8bc6-c0460bfbe1c3/B21F3661-5A98-4CA4-9CC8-AF1E1CC2362B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/4/ef352ad3-841c-4d5c-b767-c41782632c8e.html" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/4/ef352ad3-841c-4d5c-b767-c41782632c8e.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rferl.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/4/ef352ad3-841c-4d5c-b767-c41782632c8e.html">Nearly 250 dead seals have washed up on Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea coast in the past week.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/4/ef352ad3-841c-4d5c-b767-c41782632c8e.html"><P>Kazakhstan's Emergency Agency said today that oil workers inspecting the shore in the country's western Mangistau region discovered the seal carcasses. </p> <P>Authorities were conducting tests to determine what caused the deaths. </p> <P>Environmentalist have long expressed concern about damage to the Caspian Sea as a result of increasing oil exploration there. </p> <P>Similar cases of seals and other sea life dying have occurred regularly in recent years. In many cases, expert analysis has discovered large amounts of pesticides and toxic oil waste in animal carcasses.</p> <P>Last year, 350 seals and thousands of sturgeon died due to a leak from Kazakhstan's Kashagan oil field.</p> <P>Several epidemics of viral diseases have also killed thousands of seals in the Caspian since the late 1990s.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B21F3661-5A98-4CA4-9CC8-AF1E1CC2362B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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