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Articles on marine

• Fun Intro to Aquaponics (Plants + Fish) Urban Agriculture Need a bit of folksy humor? With a message worth learning about? Try this Aquaponics music video!
  
• Marine Protected Areas for a Healthier Blue Planet California is creating a network of MPAs (Marine Protected Areas) along it's coast for one simple reason -- MPA work. Over fifty nations around the world are now implementing MPAs as the primary means of protecting ocean wildlife.
  
• Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Education Collaborative DDTs and PCBs dumped in the ocean decades ago at White Point, near Los Angeles continue to contaminate natural resources in the Southern California Bight.
  
• Pollutions Prevention for Marine Debris to Protect Coastal Economy Ocean litter is 60-80% plastics and more than 80% of the ocean debris is from land-based sources. Here are proposed solutions.
  
• Marine JUNK Awareness by Algalita Marine Research Foundation JUNK raft's journey from California to Hawaii brings public attention to the plastic marine debris issue.
  
• Freshwater Ecoregions of the World is Interactive Database of Species and Ecosystems for Conservation Freshwater ecosystems support over 100,000 species in total and are some of the most endangered and least studied areas on Earth.
  
• Sharks Repelled by Electropositive Allow NOAA research on sharks shows electropositive alloy altered the swimming patterns of individual sharks and deterred feeding of groups of sharks.
  
• Turning the Tide on Trash: Marine Debris Curriculum Learn the definitions, characteristics, sources of marine debris, and ways to reduce or prevent marine debris.
  
• Developing Aquatic Invasive Species Rapid Response and Management Plans Learn about the Clean Water Act (CWA), and Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)to manage invasive species in water supplies.
  
• Pacific's Northern California Marine Feeding Grounds Likely to Get Federal Protection Federal ocean protection might protect Northern California's rich marine feeding grounds from oil drilling
  
• EPA Air Pollution from Locomotive Engines and Marine Compression-Ignition Engines EPA regulations to cut PM emission from marine engines by as much as 90% and NOx emissions by as much as 80% when fully implemented...in 2015.
  
• Court Holds Navy to Rules Safeguarding Marine Mammals Safeguarding marine mammals from deadly sonar.
  
• Garbage Island in the Middle of the Pacific Impacts Oxygen and Climate change Watch the scientific video about the plastic catastrophy forming in the Pacific Ocean.
  
• Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission Bay habitats support wildlife populations that provide humans with economic, recreational, scenic, and educational benefits.
  
• Giant Sails for Wind-Powered Ships Renewable energy for ships comes from football field-sized kites
  
• California Clean Boating Network for a Clean and Green California Clean boating is green boating in California. Tips and tools to green California's waterways with boating conservation
  
• Call for Action on Ocean Preserves to Solve the Biodiversity Crisis A well-designed global network of marine reserves, could help reverse the devastating toll on the world's oceans
  
• SoCal Levels of DDT and PCB in fish Levels of DDT and PCB in fish higher near Palos Verde Shelf, Los Angeles/Long Beach Lower in Orange County, Northern Santa Monica Bay and Ventura
  
• Water Purification Get the beach details beaches: “A” to “F” letter grade to more than 500 beaches throughout California for levels of bacterial pollution and water quality.
  
• Beach problems Print out this handy list and take it to the beach with you. Help protect beach quality by reporting problems.