America's Most Polluted Beaches
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Is your shoreline sanitary? See what could be lurking at a sandy spot near you.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 20--The names and numbers are sobering.   Big Lake, one of the most popular recreation sites in Southcentral Alaska, has measured hydrocarbon pollution near a swimming area at six times the acceptable state level for aquatic life.
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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.
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AGUA DULCE, Mexico  - The stench of rotten fish  and gasoline hangs over beached wooden boats and piles of dry  nets in the riverside fishing community of El Muelle on  Mexico's east coast.
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SEATTLE -- A toxic algae bloom off the coast of Washington state has grown to about 30 miles wide, the largest and most potentially lethal algae yet found by scientists in the region.
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China's most polluted province steps up environmental efforts    TAIYUAN, Sept.
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Contaminated sediments in rivers and bays from coast to coast pose an environmental hazard, and while dredging reduces the sediment it doesn't always solve the problem, the National Research Council reported Tuesday.
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U.S. scientists say they have made a discovery that could help public health officials know instantly when pollution moves into the coastal ocean.
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ORCAS ISLAND, Wash., May 28 -- Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
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Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best.
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By Warner Chabot  Thousands of beach-goers will hit the sand on Sept. 16 for an annual event that evokes mixed feelings of enthusiasm and sadness for participants -- California Coastal Cleanup Day.
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Untreated sewage pouring into the world's seas and oceans is polluting their water and coastlines and endangering the health and welfare of the people and animals that inhabit them, according to a bleak new U.N. report released Wednesday on the threats to the world's marine environments.
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LOS ANGELES - Concentrations of one of the most dangerous air pollutants have declined in most of the country in the last five years, especially in Southern California and the Southeast, according to a report released by the US Environmental Protection
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The washout summer has left Northern Ireland's shifting sands in a state, with raw sewage found on beaches.
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The question of how to treat wastewater in an exclusive California beachfront community is pitting neighbors, surfers and environmentalists against one another.
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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Ocean researchers are conducting studies on New Jersey's bays, which have been beset by algae whose growth is fostered by fertilizers and other pollution. "The stuff is growing like wildfire," said Michael Kennish, a Rutgers University professor studying the effects of the algae and pollution that spawns it.