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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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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		<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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		<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>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<title>E&amp;E:  OCEANS: Coastal senators form new caucus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison Winter, E&#38;E reporter Published: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 A bipartisan group of senators will meet today to form an oceans caucus that could press their colleagues on issues including ocean conservation, fishing, ports, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spending and offshore energy development. The new Senate Oceans Caucus comprises 18 coastal lawmakers, including four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list: WPBT&#8217;s &#8220;Lionfish &amp; Panko Thyme&#8221; film short</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi All, I thought we could all use a little lionfish fun for a change.  This is from WPBT&#8217;s Changing Seas TV crew.  Enjoy and feel free to circulate! The newly re-edited video of &#8220;Lionfish and Panko Thyme&#8221; is now available on our YouTube channel, ChangingSeasTV. To watch this video, please click on the link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keysnet.com: Dredging plan gets public airing Wednesday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.keysnet.com/2011/07/12/357913/dredging-plan-gets-public-airing.html &#160; Actually, for my quote at the end of this, I said the corals should be strongly protected, not projected.  There&#8217;s another typo there, but you get the idea.  DeeVon Last Stand says cruise ship issues clouded By SEAN KINNEY skinney@keynoter.com Posted &#8211; Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Environmental groups are turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff  Burnside, NBC Miami: INVITATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM CONFERENCE IN MIAMI OCT. 19-23</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported on Coral-list July 13, 2011: I&#8217;ve been a part of this listserv for years and know you&#8217;d want to learn about a massive environmental journalism conference coming to Miami Oct. 19-23 that I will be co-chairing. It&#8217;s the annual gathering of the Society of Environmental Journalists featuring more than 1,000 attendees including hundreds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Stand.org: Action alert on Key West Harbor Channel Dredge Proposal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in Key West and interested in protecting the reefs, try to attend this public workshop at City Hall on Wednesday,  July 13th at 6pm.  Speak out against this proposal.  DeeVon &#160; From: Mark Songer Sent: Jul 10, 2011 3:52 PM To: mark_songer@comcast.net Subject: Wednesday July 13 &#8211; 6pm Dear Last Stand members and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list: Experienced dive volunteers with degree needed for Curacao Coral Reef Monitoring in Autumn, 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Volunteer placement* *on Curaçao* The Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (www.zmt-bremen.de) is searching for volunteers to join its field expedition in Curaçao in Automn 2011. Volunteers will help and participate actively in various research projects related to the ecology of benthic algae on coral reefs and their interactions with corals. They will have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Reasons to Oppose the Widening of the Channel into Key West Harbor by DeeVon Quirolo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Key West is considering another effort to widen the channel leading into Key West Harbor to accommodate larger cruise ships.  Here are my comments on why this is not a good idea.  DeeVon Quirolo dquirolo @gmail.com Updated July 9th, 2011 &#160; Despite the implementation of best efforts to prevent it, sedimentation created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Business Forum on Marine Spatial Planning by World Ocean Council  July 13-14, 2011 in D.C.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  BLANK ROME SPONSORS BUSINESS FORUM ON MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING   Senior Federal Government Officials To Engage Ocean Industries at Marine Planning Conference Blank Rome Maritime, the largest maritime and admiralty law practice in the United States, has agreed to become a sponsor of the National Business Forum on Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). Blank Rome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dredging Today.com: Key West Officials Want Another Harbor Dredging Study</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.dredgingtoday.com/2011/01/20/usa-key-west-officials-want-another-harbor-dredging-study/ &#160; Posted on Jan 20th, 2011 &#160; Key West city leaders are continuing to explore widening the shipping channel that leads into the city’s commercial harbor to accommodate newer, larger cruise ships. The most recent step was authorization from the Key West City Commission for staff and lobbyists to push for federal authorities to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBS News: U.S. dirtiest and cleanest beaches named, NRDC Annual Beach Report</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/29/earlyshow/main20075354.shtml June 29, 2011 10:10 AM By Amanda Cochran The upcoming Fourth of July weekend means many Americans will be hitting their local beaches. But a new report by the environmental action group, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) &#8211; which ranks the nation&#8217;s beaches by cleanliness each year &#8211; shows that 2010 saw the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commondreams.org: If the Sea Is in Trouble, We Are All in Trouble by Sylvia Earle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/25-5 Published on Saturday, June 25, 2011 by The Independent/UK The report that the ocean is in trouble is no surprise. What is shocking is that it has taken so long for us to make the connection between the state of the ocean and everything we care about – the economy, health, security – and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Dreams.org: Warming Oceans Cause Largest Movement of Marine Species in Two Million Years by Richard Gray</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on Sunday, June 26, 2011 by The Telegraph/UK Warming ocean waters are causing the largest movement of marine species seen on Earth in more than two million years, according to scientists. Warming ocean waters are causing the largest movement of marine species seen on Earth in more than two million years, according to scientists. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mangrove Action Project:  Children&#8217;s Mangrove Art Needed for Calendar Art Competiton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Children’s&#160;Mangrove Artwork Needed For Calendar Art&#160;Competition! Dear Friends, MAP’s 11th Annual Children’s Mangrove Art Calendar Competition for 2012 is now in progress. We are accepting children’s artwork from around the world&#160;that answers the basic question: “What does the mangrove forest mean to my&#160;community and me?” Via this art competition, MAP has been able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HuffPost Green: Looking for a Sea Change on World Oceans Day by Vikki N. Spruill, Ocean Conservancy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vikki N. Spruill CEO, Ocean Conservancy &#160; Posted: 06/ 7/11 11:40 AM ET &#160; Last year on World Oceans Day, our nation was facing the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Since then, the well has been capped, oil-covered wildlife have been scrubbed, and experts have told us how to prevent another offshore oil disaster. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list:  REEF Cayman Islands Grouper Moon Project PSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to share with you a short (3-minute) Public Service Annoucement (PSA)  from the REEF Grouper Moon Project, talking about the importance of protections for spawning aggregations and the work that REEF and our collaborators at the Cayman Islands Department of the Environment (CIDOE) and Oregon State University have done on this important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mangrove Action Project: Please sign petition on Care2.com against shrimp farming standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/protest-wwfs-shrimp-standards/]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Hands Across the Sand&#8211;seeking sponsors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 01:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 Hands Across the Sand_Sponsor Building on the success of last year, I would like to invite your organization to be a sponsor of Hands Across the Sand in 2011 so that we may broaden the reach and impact of the event. I believe the collective efforts of clean energy and environmental organizations have immense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mangrove Action Project:  Action Alert on Farmed Shrimp</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 3, 2011 Dear Friends of Mangroves: Mangrove Action Project is asking for your help with our latest campaign against shrimp farm certification. We are preparing a compiled statement of protest from the conservation world against World Wildlife Foundation&#8217;s proposed Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue, with its intended Aquaculture Stewardship Council.  This well intentioned effort is seriously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Frontier.org: Join us for Blue Vision Summit 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passionate about the marine environment?  www.bluefront.org BVS3FLYER-fullpage041511 1 A four-day gathering of 500 leaders from the marine community including Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Sylvia Earle, Carl Safina, Admiral Thad Allen (USCG -Ret.), Ralph Nader, Barton Seaver, Wyland, Jim Toomey, Louie Psihoyos, Celine Cousteau and many others! May 20-23, 2011 * Washington, D.C. This year&#8217;s major themes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfrider Action Alert:  Florida Outfall Bill reduces wastewater treatment standards for South Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is so foolish, since the injected wastewater will not only foul drinking water supplies, but it will also deliver nitrogen-loaded wastewater to offshore coral reefs via upwelling. This bill overrides earlier important legislation that established a standard of advanced wastewater and reuse to replace ocean outfalls in South Florida.   And it is a joke to define injection as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Herald:  Bill Eases Sewage Restrictions in South Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/11/2162515/bill-eases-sewage-restrictions.html#ixzz1JQ97p0uD Posted on Monday, 04.11.11   POLITICAL CURRENTS &#124; THE LEGISLATURE   A measure advancing in the Legislature would give three South Florida counties and one city more time and leeway in phasing out how much sewage they flush into the Atlantic Ocean.   A diver writes down observations of marine species in the Dry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking News &#8211; FDEP Slams Hillsboro Beach Renourishm​ent Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn more at www.reef-rescue.org Friday April 8, FDEP Enforcement issued a letter to the Town of Hillsboro Beach warning they may be facing fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars for misrepresenting turbidity monitoring data and for damaging coral reefs and shoreline habitat. Link to FDEP letter of noncompliance: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52607956/WarningLetter-4-8-11 This would not have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWF Announces 2011 International Smart Gear Design Competition to Reduce Fisheries Bycatch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fisherman, Backyard Inventors and Students Encouraged to Submit Entries The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is pleased to announce the launch of the 2011 International Smart Gear Competition&#60;http://www.smartgear.org&#62;, to find innovative ways to reduce the amount of fisheries bycatch. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Fondation Segré, ISSF, and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reef Rescue: Florida Governor Rick Scott invites northerners to come and swim in our sewage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.reef-rescue.org This is so counter intuitive. We worked so hard to achieve the outfall legislation; now it may be undone.   DV Feb 28 2011-Tallahassee, FL  After a brutally harsh winter for many Americans, Florida Governor Rick Scott and VISIT FLORIDA®, the states official tourism marketing corporation, have organized the Share a Little Sunshine Tour to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keynoter: No Harvest of Goliath Grouper in the Near Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.keysnet.com/2011/02/26/312706/no-harvest-of-goliath-grouper.html]]></description>
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		<title>Coral-list: CARMABI Foundation provides 2011 coral spawning predictions for Southern Caribbean</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on last year&#8217;s surveys a prediction is now available of expected times and dates that some of the more abundant Caribbean coral species will release the next generation of corals during the annual coral spawning. The dates are only applicable to the Southern Caribbean. Be aware that the coral spawning is becoming more difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica Observer: NEPA gets flak over Falmouth Port</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/environment/NEPA-gets-flak-over-Falmouth-Port_8318051 Some things never change.  DV Agency rejects criticism BY PETRE WILLIAMS-RAYNOR Environment editor williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, January 26, 2011  THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has come in for yet more heavy criticism over its monitoring of the Historic Falmouth Port Development in Trelawny. But NEPA has come out swinging, insisting that it has [...]]]></description>
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