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Human Rights vs. World’s Largest Marine Reserve

Posted on Mar 30, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.

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The Chagos Islands forms an archipelago in the Indian Ocean and is a “hotspot” of biodiversity containing the largest coral atoll. The British government plans to make 210,000 sq km surrounding the Chagos Islands into the “world’s largest marine reserve;” however, these islands have a “sordid” past. In the late 1960s, the United States and Great Britain expelled the native people and slave descendants in order to create a nuclear air force base. If the area is turned into a marine reserve today, the Chagossians (Ilois) contest they could never return since fishing would be banned deeply impacting their livelihood.

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Bournemouth, Europe’s First Artificial Reef, Enhances Ecology and Surfing

Posted on Dec 01, 2009 by Derek Markham.

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Europe’s first artificial reef, at Boscombe Seafront, is now officially open. Bournemouth Reef is part of a larger redevelopment scheme to regenerate and revitalize the area. A local Economic Impact Assessment has suggested that the reef will create a value of £10 million per year, generating a huge stimulus for equipment retailing, surf training schools, accommodation and board, and creating an estimated 60 full-time and 30 part-time jobs.
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UK and Norway to Study Role of North Sea in CO2 Storage

Posted on Jun 27, 2009 by Reenita Malhotra.

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Can carbon dioxide be stored beneath the bed of our oceans?

Apparently so. The UK and Norway commissioned a study of the role of the North Sea in providing storage space deep under the sea for carbon dioxide from European countries.

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