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		<title>Coral-List: Peter Sale: warming, acidification, reefs and CO2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Hi all, If any of you have yet to see Reef Reminiscences, download a copy and think about what we are losing: http://www.inweh.unu.edu/Coastal/Publications/ReefReminiscencesBooklet_WEB.pdf    The current discussions re acidification got to me. Last week, CO2 concentration above Mauna Loa reached 400 ppm for the first time since continuous records commenced in 1958. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reef Rescue volunteers in action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 01:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reef Rescue new testing equipment arrived just in time to catch contractor dredging violations. In February we unpacked and calibrated our new turbidity meter (paid for with your donations) and put it right to work monitoring contractor permit compliance. Turbidity standards are built into the dredging permits by FDEP to protect our nearshore coral reefs from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SpeakUpForBLue.com:  Online Resource for building Career Marine Science by Andrew Lewin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Coral Listers, I am a marine spatial ecologist and I&#8217;ve been a long time subscriber to this list, but an infrequent poster. I love this list as a resource! I see job postings on this list every once and a while so I thought I would share with the Coral lister group of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Today by Jim Wayner: Oceana: Sonic blasts planned off Brevard could kill dolphins, whales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purchase Image Whales and other marine mammals rely on hearing to navigate. / FLORIDA TODAY &#160; Written by Jim Waymer question Thank you for voting! Yes. We need the oil, regardless of the potential harm to wildlife.  58.06%  (36 votes)     No. Wildlife should be saved at all costs. Find another way to test. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list: Pan-American Coral Reef Congress Oct 8&#8211;11th, 2013, Merida Mexico</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mar 22 (1 day ago) Joaquín Rodrigo Garza Pérez &#60;rgarza@ciencias.unam.mx&#62; http://redoctober.sisal.unam.mx/1CPAC/Panamerican_Coral_Reef_Congress/Resumenes___Abstracts.html http://redoctober.sisal.unam.mx/1CPAC/Panamerican_Coral_Reef_Congress/Merida_2013.html Dear Colleagues: New information on the congress venue, official hotel, registry fees and airfare discounts is available at the Congress website! See you in Mérida! Greetings from the Local Organizing Committee ES Estimados Colegas: Ya está disponible la información de la sede del [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Petition Drive:  We need 100,000 signatures by March 19th</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this isn&#8217;t about the ocean or coral reefs but it is an issue that is near and dear to my heart.    My husband was cured of Hepatitis C in a Phase 2 clinical trial involving two medicines owned by two different companies. They achieved an astounding 100% cure rate in all patients with little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Vision Summit 4 &amp; 6th Annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards: What does the ocean mean to you?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.bluefront.org/ &#160; 2013 Summit Facebook REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Be a part of the rising wave of citizen activism for our ocean, coasts and the communities that depend on them. Join the groundswell of support for common sense solutions from your community to the halls of Congress. Two years ago over 300 Seaweed Rebels from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coralwatch:  New Coral Reefs &amp; Climate Change Guide for Education &amp; Awareness book &amp; DVD</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CoralWatch would like to announce that we have just released the second edition of our book &#8220;Coral Reefs and Climate Change &#8211; the Guide for Education and Awareness&#8221;. This book is beautifully illustrated and aims to bring coral reef science to students and general public.   It is 262 pages and has chapters on oceanography, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club: Florida Water Quality Rules; Hearing Jan 17 in Tampa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends: We are at a major turning point in the battle over Clean Water Act enforcement in Florida.  Most of you are aware that on November 30, EPA made a complex decision on setting numeric nutrient standards for Florida&#8217;s waters.  Environmental leaders and the media initially reported it as a major victory, but so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Biologic Diversity: Save Vanishing Corals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12219 Support the effort to add corals to the endangered species list.  Sign the action alert and check out the list of public hearings and where to send comments at Center for Biologic Diversity website above.  DV Our coral reefs are in trouble, and the proposal from the federal government to protect 66 corals under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Frontier Campaign:  BLue Notes #106:  Political Tide Turning?, Whales, Oregon Shore, &amp; More&#8230;.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home About Projects Blue Notes BLUE FRONT DIRECTORY Solutions MEDIA Books Blue Notes #106 &#160; BLUE NOTES #106: Political Tide Turning?, Whales, Oregon Shore, &#38; More December 17, 2012 By David Helvarg &#160; In this issue Is the Political Tide Turning? It’s Not Just About the Whales Back to the Oregon Shore Seaweed Spotlight: Cook Inletkeeper Last Chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Ocean Radio on climate change</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Ocean Radio &#8220;As we have argued here on World Ocean Radio too often before, we can no longer protect ourselves from the cause and effect of climate change through indifference, contrived ignorance, and lack of action. That response is irresponsible to the victims, the coastal communities, and to the rest of the nation who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KITV.com: Scientists investigate reports of a massive coral deaths off Kauai</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Catherine Cruz http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/Scientists-investigate-reports-of-a-massive-coral-deaths-off-Kauai/-/8905354/16699168/-/item/0/-/hetcuo/-/index.html Rapid response team to try and determine extent of damage, cause UPDATED 9:54 AM HST Sep 22, 2012 HONOLULU —A mysterious coral die-off on Kauai’s north shore is prompting a team of scientists to take a closer look at what may be killing large areas of coral reef.Marine biologist Terry Lilley has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hill E2 Wire:  Gore seeks November splash with event &#8220;The Dirty Weather Report.&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Geman    - 09/23/12 01:38 PM ET Hill E2 Wire Al Gore hopes to show links between climate change and the effects of extreme weather worldwide with an online and social media-fueled event built around the idea of &#8220;dirty weather.&#8221;   Gore&#8217;s advocacy group, the Climate Reality Project, announced Sunday that its second multi-media &#8220;24 Hours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOF: Bay of Turtles: Bahía de Jiquilisco, El Salvador</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.oceanfdn.org/blog/?p=766 &#160; Great post on The Ocean Foundation blog about sea turtles at a very special place: Bahia de Jiquilisco.  DV by Brad Nahill, Director &#38; Co-Founder of SEEtheWILD To arrive to a new place in the dark is like tasting a new food with a blindfold on. You can feel the edges, but a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Dreams:  &#8216;A Great Silence Is Spreading Over the Natural World&#8217; by John Vidal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/05-2 Published on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 by The Guardian/UK Bernie Krause has spent 40 years recording nature&#8217;s sounds. But such is the rate of species and habitat loss that his tapes may become our only record of the original diversity of life by John Vidal &#8220;The birds are silent in the woods. Just wait: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care2: 5 Ways the GOP’s New Platform Fails the Environment by Treehugger</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just the beginning of a full-tilt anti-green agenda&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..DV by TreeHugger September 1, 2012 10:09 pm Written by Brian Merchant The Republican Party just approved its 2012 platform at its national convention in Tampa, and predictably, it includes some decidedly anti-environment directives. So, I present to you a handful of the most notably reckless objectives the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney &amp; Obama on Ocean Rise and Healing the Planet:  A contrast to say the least!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deevon &#8211; Here&#8217;s something Mitt Romney actually joked about with pride &#8212; and plenty of scorn &#8212; while formally accepting the Republican nomination for president of the United States: &#8220;President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet.&#8221; And the crowd went wild. It is nothing short of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ocean Foundation: Tracking Cuban Sea Turtles Like Never Before</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on August 28, 2012 by admin by Fernando M. Bretos, Research Fellow, Cuba Marine Research and Conservation Program On August 2nd, 2012, the first of five satellite tags was deployed on the carapace of a nesting green turtle at Guanahacabibes National Park and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, located on the westernmost tip of Cuba. Named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Washington Post: Surfonomics: What&#8217;s this wave worth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ocean Foundation  partner and grantee Chad Nelson of Surfrider Foundation and Linwood Pendleton, chief economist of NOAA have authored Surfonomics: What&#8217;s this wave worth, by Gregory Thomas, August 26, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/surfonomics-quantifies-the-worth-of-waves/2012/08/23/86e335ca-ea2c-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html &#160; Special thanks to Mark J. Spalding]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlantic:  Why Young Environmentalists Still Have Hope</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/why-young-environmentalists-still-have-hope/261065/ By Billy Parish When it comes to climate change, it&#8217;s not surprising that many millennials have settled into a fatalistic stupor. But there are ways to make a difference &#8212; and they&#8217;re already working. &#160; Ten years ago, I was between my sophomore and junior years at Yale, and on a journey that would profoundly alter the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list:  New Identification Guide for Coral Reef Sponges at Glover&#8217;s Atoll Belize</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear coral-listers I would like to draw your attention about a picture identification guide for common coral reef sponges of Glover’s Atoll Belize, produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society &#8211; Belize. Although proper identification often requires microscopic examination, the images herein may help you get close and provide a starting point. This guide may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club: Don&#8217;t pump sugar&#8217;s polluted water into Lake Okeechobee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must not begin backpumping dirty water into Lake Okeechobee again. Nor can we afford to avoid cleaning the water prior to releasing it downstream to run through the Everglades to the coral reefs of the Florida Keys. That mistake in the 80&#8242;s  led to massive coral losses on the Florida reef tract.  DV by Sierra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Forum:  Can Coral Reefs Survive the next century?  Video by ABC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/programs/future-forum/ The Great Barrier Reef and the other great coral reefs are the largest living structures on the planet and among the world&#8217;s most diverse ecosystems. It has been estimated that more than 250 million people depend on the world&#8217;s coral reefs to provide their income, sustenance and livelihoods. Now the triple threat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club Florida News: National Environmental CEO&#8217;s Ask EPA to  Reject Florida&#8217;s Nutrient Standards</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Rivers ● Clean Water Action ● Earthjustice ● Environment America ● Friends of the Earth ● Izaak Walton League of America ● League of Conservation Voters ● National Parks Conservation Association ● National Wildlife Federation ● Natural Resources Defense Council ● Physicians for Social Responsibility ● Sierra Club July 19, 2012 The Honorable Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interpress Service News Agency: Scientists Declare State of Emergency for World’s Coral Reefs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/scientists-declare-state-of-emergency-for-worlds-coral-reefs/ By Stephen Leahy Reprint &#124;       &#124; Print &#124; Send by email &#124;En español Pristine coral reef situated in a Jordanian marine reserve wrapped by a drifting fishing net. Credit: Malik Naumann/Marine Photobank CAIRNS, Australia, Jul 10 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Coral reef scientists urged local and national governments to take action to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pew Environment Group: Australia Announces World&#8217;s Largest System of Marine Parks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:55:51 -0500 From: advocacyemail@pewtrusts.org To: gaillima@hotmail.com Subject: SPECIAL EDITION: Australia Announces World&#8217;s Largest System of Marine Parks Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to read this email in your browser.   June 15, 2012 This week marked an exciting moment in marine conservation history, with Australia’s decision to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Times: Coral Reefs Are Being Decimated, All for a Few Gaudy Trinkets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-05-03/news/coral-reefs-are-being-decimated-all-for-a-few-gaudy-trinkets/ By Chris Sweeney Thursday, May 3 2012 Kate Lunz didn&#8217;t know what to expect as she piloted her white Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission truck to the Port of Tampa in July 2010. The day before, customs authorities had called the 32-year-old, PhD-toting marine biologist and asked her to inspect the contents of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lahaina News: Community groups sue county over sewage discharges</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 3, 2012 http://www.lahainanews.com/page/content.detail/id/508104/Community-groups-sue-county-over-sewage-discharges.html?nav=19 MARK VIETH &#8211; EDITOR , Lahaina News Save &#124; Post a comment &#124; HONOKOWAI &#8211; Four Hawaii community groups recently filed suit under the national Clean Water Act, asking the federal district court to direct Maui County to secure a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit that would set limits on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental News Service: Maui County Sued to Stop Sewage Discharges to Popular Beach</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2012/2012-04-23-092.html LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, April 23, 2012 (ENS) &#8211; Four Hawaii community groups have filed suit under the federal Clean Water Act to stop Maui County from discharging wastewater into the ocean from its Lahaina treatment plant without a permit. After years of unsuccessful efforts to resolve the issue out of court, the nonprofit public-interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list: Public Comment period opens on Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary &amp; Key West and Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge boundaries, zones, etc.&#8211;comments due 6/29/12.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and its advisory council&#60;http://beta2.w1.floridakeys.woc.noaa.gov/sac/welcome.html&#62; are seeking public comment on issues related to sanctuary boundaries, marine zones &#60;http://beta2.w1.floridakeys.woc.noaa.gov/zones/welcoe.html?s=zones&#62;, Key West and Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge&#8217;s Backcountry Management Plan &#60;http://www.fws.gov/nationalkeydeer/backcountry.html&#62;, and associated regulations &#60;http://floridakeys.noaa.gov/regs/welcome.html&#62;. The comments received will guide a review of the marine zones&#60;http://beta2.w1.floridakeys.woc.noaa.gov/zones/welcome.html&#62; and regulations&#60;http://beta2.w1. floridakeys.woc.noaa.gov/regs/welcome.html&#62;, and shape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Biological Diversity: Protect Corals, Fish &amp; Whales from Ocean Acidification</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10080 &#160; Protect Corals, Fish and Whales From Ocean Acidification Your beach may be more polluted than you think. Each hour we dump one ton of invisible pollution into the ocean; if it were a visible, tangible substance like oil, we would demand that the spill be halted. Even though you can&#8217;t see it, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD): A Roadmap for Ocean Sustainability</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNCSD March informal-informal Side Event Annoucement: Date: UNCSD First round of informal-informal negotiations on the zero draft of the outcome document Mar 22, 2012 Location: United Nations Headquarters North Lawn Building, Conference Room 7 New York City, New York Description: Throughout the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) preparatory process, a chorus of States, civil society and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Biologic Diversity: Lawsuit Seeks Plan to Save Florida&#8217;s Corals, Urgently Threatened by Ocean Warming and Acidification</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2012/corals-03-15-2012.html So glad the Center for Biological Diversity is paying attention to this.  We worked so hard to achieve the threatened species designation for Elkhorn and Staghorn; it&#8217;s sad that NOAA has failed to meet their responsibility to actually follow through with a plan to  increase protection for these endangered corals.   DeeVon &#160; &#160; E-mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reef Rescue:  FLORIDA CORAL REEFS VICTORIOUS:  REEFS &#8211; 2, SEWAGE &#8211; 0</title>
		<link>http://www.reefrelieffounders.com/news/2012/03/10/reef-rescue-florida-coral-reefs-victorious-reefs-2-sewage-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so happy to learn that the effort  to weaken existing legislation that would end the discharge of sewage onto South Florida&#8217;s coral reefs  has,  for a second year in a row, failed to pass.  Some times the good guys win!  DeeVon Tallahassee: For a second year in a row public outcry blocked passage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list:  Seakeys Network shuts down long term monitoring of Florida Keys coral reefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Hendee 11:43 AM (6 minutes ago) to Coral-List This sad bit of news comes from a recent SECOORA (Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association) bulletin.  The station referred to that AOML will maintain is located on the Molasses Reef lighthouse. *SEAKEYS Assets Removed from Water The SEAKEYS network has been operational for over 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Sentinel: Change in law could save South Florida utility ratepayers $1.3 billion by dumping sewage in the ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ariel Barkhurst, Sun Sentinel12:09 p.m. EST, February 23, 2012 A bill making its way through the Legislature would dump 5 billion gallons of treated sewage into the ocean every year, but save South Florida&#8217;s utility ratepayers at least $1.3 billion. The bill changes a 2008 law that told utilities to completely stop flushing treated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation Community Unites to oppose Fla Senate Bill 724, Domestic Wastewater Discharged Through Ocean Outfalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This bill, if passed, will weaken the Outfall Legislation passed by the Florida Legislature 4 years ago which gave municipalities in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties 10 years to phase out ocean outfalls that reduced water quality for the area&#8217;s coral reefs. They were mandated to implement advanced wastewater treatment and re-use that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevate the Gulf: Interview with Mark Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.reefrelieffounders.com/news/2012/02/22/elevate-the-gulf-interview-with-mark-spalding-president-of-the-ocean-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by elevate on February 22, 2012 – 12:43 pm On April 9, 2012, Elevate Destinations and The Ocean Foundation will bring a team of volunteers to the Gulf Coast to participate in a week long service trip to help revitalize an eco-system that was devastated by the BP oil spill. These travelers will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MiamiHerald.com: Utilities seek break on ocean flushing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on Friday, 01.27.12 Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/27/2612159_utilities-seek-break-on-ocean.html#storylink=addthis#storylink=cpy Environment Citing more than $1 billion in costs, Miami-Dade and Broward utilities are pushing a bill that would let them continue to use ocean outfalls as back-up for big sewage days By CURTIS MORGAN CMorgan@MiamiHerald.com Four years ago, Florida ordered utilities in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition: Updated Blueprint released</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://flcoastalandocean.org/blueprint &#160; Blueprint Blueprint Update The Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition addresses the most pressing issues affecting Florida’s coastal and marine environments in Florida’s Coastal and Ocean Future: An Updated Blueprint for Economic and Environmental Leadership. This report updates the Coalition’s previous document, Florida’s Coastal and Ocean Future: A Blueprint for Economic and Environmental Leadership, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coralations:  SEA DREAM CRUISE SHIPS REPORTED ANCHORING OFF USFWS REFUGE CAY of CULEBRITA&#8230;again</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Dec 18th 2011:  &#160; One of the Sea Dream ships left Ensonada Honda Sat., Dec 17th, 2011, but did not head directly to the USFWS Refuge Cay Saturday night.  We are not sure where it anchored over-night. &#160; One of the vessels was reported anchored at the refuge cay on Sun., Dec 18th, 2011. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Your Input on the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 20, 2011, on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly, the President announced the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan.  The Plan was developed through a process that involved extensive consultations with external stakeholders, including a broad range of civil society groups and members of the private sector, to gather ideas on open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Guardian: Australia announces plans for world&#8217;s largest marine park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[28.11.11 Updated 22.55 Environment Coral Sea park is the size of France and Germany combined and will help protect fish, coral reefs and nesting sites The Australian marine park will protect green turtle nesting sites. Photograph: Getty Images Reuters The Guardian, Fri 25 Nov 2011 15.32 GMT Australia has announced plans for the world&#8217;s biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Biologic Diversity:  Gas-mileage Rules Small Step Forward; Fall Short of What’s Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2011 3:41 PM CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity Vera Pardee, (858) 717-1448 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/16-11 &#160; I post this story here in Reef News because the effects of ocean acidification are destroying coral reefs.  It is one of the effects of global climate change that can be diminished through greater reductions in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOAA:  U.S. residents say Hawaii’s coral reef ecosystems worth $33.57 billion per year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://coralreef.noaa.gov/aboutcrcp/news/featuredstories/oct11/hi_value/ A peer-reviewed study, commissioned by NOAA, reveals the estimated total economic value the American people hold for the coral reefs of the main Hawaiian Islands is $33.57 billion. This is a small moray eel in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Maui. Photo credit: NOAA Report Executive Summary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Dept: U.S. Virgin Islands Company Sentenced for Illegal Trade of Protected Coral Gem Manufacturing Sentenced to Highest Financial Penalty for Illegal Coral Trade</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to all who made case this a success!  Our law enforcement and legal teams are a vital part of any successful reef conservation, for  without prosecution there would not likely be effective deterrence.  Three cheers!!  hip, hip, hip &#8211; hooray!   &#8220;The aggregate financial penalty of $4.47 million makes this the largest for the illegal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Herald McClatchy:  Can Reefs be made more resilient?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can reefs be made more resilient?]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Coast  Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Releases Plan; Public Comment Open Until Oct 26</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gulf of Mexico provides seafood, oil, and biological and cultural diversity that benefit the whole country.  Those of you who do not live near it may have noticed that those who do have had a rough couple of years with natural and human-caused disasters.  In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huffington Post:  Ultimate Game Changer in &#8220;Green&#8221; Category:  Bill McKibben</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/01/huffpost-game-changers-wh_n_302959.html &#160; BILL MCKIBBEN Current Status: Author-turned-impassioned environmental activist Changing the Game By: Taking an apocalyptic piece of scientific data and using it to launch a worldwide grassroots campaign &#8212; 350.org &#8212; to fight global warming. McKibben’s goal is to have “350” become symbolic of a life-and-death effort to reduce the presence of CO2 in [...]]]></description>
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