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Wildlife, Pristine Beaches Focus of ‘Aggressive’ Oil Spill Cleanup

Oil Pollution

Refugio State Beach coastline, CA. Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care

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A thick, black, greasy, 9-square-mile oil slick now snakes along what was the pristine coastline of Refugio State Beach…

Read Full Article, CNN

Santa Barbara Beaches Slicked With Oil After Pipeline Breach, National Geographic

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Plastic Pollution

"Polluted sea with plastic waste" (by Marco Verch via ccnull.de, CC-BY 2.0).

Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find – the Guardian

Art + Science

Sunset On The Klamath River (by Linda Tanner CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

Undammed: Amy Bowers Cordalis and the fight to free the Klamath − Patagonia Flims

Sand Mining

Sand extraction in Villeneuve-sur-Verberie, France, c 1910 (Dury, editor, Public domain, via Wikimedia).

A Civilization Built on Sand – Le Figaro

SL Rise | Climate Change

"Atafona, Brazil: The sea is swallowing the city" (by Samuel Kobayashi CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

‘The sea was coming closer, it was so painful to see my house being destroyed’ – the Guardian

Coastal Care JR

Sunrise on the Annapurna Range from Bandipur, Nepal © 2024 Deepika Shrestha Ross

How the Himalayas Changed the World – PBS Eons

Ecosystem Destruction

Polyethylene heat welded sculpture made to demonstrate the great Oceanic Gyres created by waste. This artwork is part of a collection titled "The creation of Plastikos" (by Simon MAX Bannister, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia).

Surprising Creatures Lurk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Scientific American

Shoreline Armoring

An aerial view of the damage Hurricane Ike inflicted upon Gilchrist, Texas (by Jocelyn Augusitno/FEMA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).

Shelter from the Storm – Science

Problematic Development

Anini Beach, 2018 (by Alan Grinberg CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flicker).

Hawaii homeowner hired security to kick people off Kauai beach – SFGate