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Pollution : Pollution-Significant
- Big Farms Making a Mess of U.S. Waters
-- Across the country, metropolitan water agencies are battling increasing pollution from the countryside. The river pollution is spreading and helping to cause dead zones in the open seas.
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- Flame Retardants Spreading Like Wildfire
-- Study shows that these compounds, suspected of disrupting the body's hormonal system, are accumulating rapidly in animals and fish in the Arctic, thousands of kilometers from where they were used.
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- Industrial waste water is rising
-- "Industrial pollution dumped into U.S. and Canadian lakes, rivers, and streams rose 26 percent from 1995 to 1999, overshadowing an almost equal reduction in toxic air emissions."
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- Marine Pollution
-- "Trans-boundary water pollution can endanger human health and marine resources, and economically damage a variety of resource-dependent activities such as commercial and recreational fishing."
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- Marine Pollution in the United States
-- Despite 30 years of progress in reducing pollution from ocean dumping, waste treatment facilities, and toxics such as DDT, America's coastal waters remain in peril. A new report of the Pew Oceans Commission released today finds that polluted runoff from farms and cities - often far inland - went largely unabated or actually increased over the past 30 years, in many cases negating gains made in controlling direct sources of pollution.
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- Plastic Outnumbers Plankton in N. Pacific
-- Six times more plastic than plankton floats in the North Pacific, and the plastic bits may be causing serious harm to sea life, says a new study of the largest amount of plastic ever observed in the remote stretch of ocean.
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- Pollution May Close Record Number of U.S. Beaches
-- If recent trends continue more than 18,000 beaches will be closed this year because the water is too polluted, warns Oceana, a national ocean advocacy group. This would be a 40 percent increase from 2001 - the most recent data available - when there were more than 13,000 beach closures.
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- Pollution problems in China worsen
-- A BBC Science correspondent says the major pollutants are nitrogen and phosphates which may come from chemical fertilizers.
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- Report lobbies for cleanup of America's waters
-- Thirty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, ocean pollution from cars, fertilizers and septic tanks has gone largely unabated, a recent study by the Pew Oceans Commission notes. In many cases, the contamination, known as non-point source pollution, has increased.
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