islands

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A deeper reading unlocks the history of those islands as a warning against the gentrification that’s changing Puerto Rico and pricing out the people who have lived there for generations; it includes lyrics that translate to, “They want to take the river and the beach away from me, they want my neighborhood and my grandma gone.”

From Salon

Panama, Liberia and the Marshall Islands are the most common FOC states, representing 46.5% of all merchant ships by weight, but Gambia has become a player in recent years.

From BBC

This year features a record-breaking 150 rescue dogs from 72 shelters across the United States, Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands, split into Team Ruff and Team Fluff.

From Salon

The penguins had previously moved from offshore islands to the mainland, taking advantage of the absence of land predators.

From Science Daily

For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.

From Science Daily