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Pollution
ConservationInstitute Team

Dead Zones

Every summer in the Gulf of Mexico an area, sometimes as large as Massachusetts, becomes void of life due to severely depleted levels of oxygen

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Conservation
ConservationInstitute Team

Pollution

Many pollution-related mechanisms degrade ecosystems and maintain them at degraded states. Some of the pollution topics are addressed below. Oil PollutionPersistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)Dead ZonesMarine DebrisNoise Pollution

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Earth Matters
ConservationInstitute Team

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The following article was published in the May-June 2000 issue of E-Magazine: March of 1989 was the

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Ocean Matters
ConservationInstitute Team

Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification Bad for Shells and Reefs Rising levels of atmospheric carbon due to fossil fuel emissions have made seawater more acidic. Now, two new

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