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Coastal Pollution

Coastal Restoration: A Smart Investment

Mark Tercek | Posted 04.23.2012 | Green
Read More: Conservation, Coastal Conservation, Coral Reef Extinction, Environmental Protection Agency, Coral Reef Depletion, Coastal Pollution, Green Issues, Coastal Restoration, Nature Conservation, Green News
Mark Tercek

Unless a wide range of conservation and restoration actions are taken, we could lose up to 70 percent of coral reefs by 2050.

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12 Connections Between Oil Spills and Plastic Pollution

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bpa, Sea Turtles, Plastic Pollution, Coastal Pollution, Plastic Bag Ban, Pacific Gyre, Clean-Up, Microplastics, Tourism, Oil Industry, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Albatross, Oil, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

Both oil spills and plastic pollution kill ocean wildlife in obvious, quick ways and slow, insidious ways.

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BP Oil Spill May Cost Housing Market $4.3 Billion

bloomberg.com | John Gittelsohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Bp, Costar Group, Realtytrac, Property, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Coastal Pollution, Home Prices, Gulf Coast, Business News

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc's oil spill may drive down Gulf Coast property values by 10 percent for at least three years, according to a forecast by...

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Stopping Ocean Sprawl

Paul McRandle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Ocean Acidification, Sprawl, Oil Rigs, Climate Change, Coastal Pollution, Shipping Lanes, Oceans, Wind Farms, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Paul McRandle

"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.

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New York Wants To Fight Pollution, Revive "Jobs, Revenue, Wildlife"

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: New York, Environment, Pollution, New York Wildlife, Coastal Pollution, Water, Green Economy, Green News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Faced with more beaches closures, depleted shellfish beds and sharply reduced commercial fisheries, New York is poised to act aga...

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