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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS
 Save Our Shores SOS is a non-profit marine conservation organization with a home base in Santa Cruz, California. Our mission is to protect and conserve the marine ecosystems of California`s...
 Carpentaria Ghost Net Programme is a Queensland-based project for people from (Indigenous) communities all around the Gulf of Carpentaria to find ways to work together to get rid of marine debris in their sea country...
FEATURED RESOURCES  Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound This book, by author John Keeble, explores the largest tanker spill in the history of North America, and its devastating effects upon wildlife and habitat...
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oil development, shipping, cruise ships, aquatic toxicology, pollutant, estuaries, coastal, health impacts, dumping, oil spills, toxic waste, cleanup, industrial wastes, ocean, sea, fish, birds, nonpoint source pollution, coastal wetlands, sewage outfall, industrial outfall, storm sewers, beaches, offshore gas and oil, shellfish, swimming, boating, tourism, nutrients, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, food webs, eutrophication, fertilizer runoff, sewage disposal, algal blooms
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Did You Know?
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| The largest oil spill in world history was the Gulf War oil spill, in the Persian Gulf in January 1991. Experts estimate the amount of crude oil spilled was well over 5 times that of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. The spill was caused when Iraqi military forces opened oil valves near Kuwait City during the first Gulf War, and endangered wildlife habitats throughout the coast of the Arabian peninsula, bringing some to call it this one of the worst acts of "environmental warfare."
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