. [icon] Main article: Government of the City of Miami There was also a period of alternatives to nightclubs the warehouse party acid house rave and outdoor festival scenes of the late 1980s and early 1990s were havens for the latest trends in electronic dance music especially house and its ever-more hypnotic synthetic offspring techno and trance in clubs like the infamous Warsaw Ballroom better known as Warsaw and the Mix where DJs like David Padilla (who was the resident DJ for both) and radio the new sound fed back into mainstream clubs across the country the scene in SoBe along with a bustling secondhand market for electronic instruments and turntables had a strong democratizing effect offering amateur "bedroom" DJs the opportunity to become proficient and popular as both music players and producers regardless of the whims of the professional music and club industries Some of these notable DJs are John Benetiz (better known as JellyBean Benetiz) Danny Tenaglia and David Padilla.

. Endangered marine species include the manatee seals sea lions turtles and whales Drift net fishing can kill dolphins albatrosses and other seabirds (petrels auks) hastening the fish stock decline and contributing to international disputes Municipal pollution comes from the eastern United States southern Brazil and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in the Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Lake Maracaibo Mediterranean Sea and North Sea; and industrial waste and municipal sewage pollution in the Baltic Sea North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. In the North Atlantic surface circulation is dominated by three inter-connected currents: the Gulf Stream which flows north-east from the North American coast at Cape Hatteras; the North Atlantic Current a branch of the Gulf Stream which flows northward from the Grand Banks; and the Subpolar Front an extension of the North Atlantic Current a wide vaguely defined region separating the subtropical gyre from the subpolar gyre This system of currents transport warm water into the North Atlantic without which temperatures in the North Atlantic and Europe would plunge dramatically; . .