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Environmental Issues: Oceans

Exploring the Atlantic's Ocean Oases
Overview: Together with the Waitt Institute, the University of Connecticut, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, NRDC has embarked on an exciting expedition to help catalogue the presence of rare deep sea corals and other life in several of the Georges Bank canyons and nearby seamounts that have never before been explored.
Deep Sea Treasures Protecting the Atlantic Coast's Ancient Submarine Canyons and Seamounts Overview: Cut into the continental shelf off the Atlantic coast of the United States is a series of undersea canyons. Teeming with an astonishing variety and abundance of marine life, these canyons and seamounts are ocean oases. Swift action is needed to defend these ancient ecosystems now, before they suffer irreparable harm.

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NRDC experts write about the growing risks to the health of our oceans on the NRDC blog.

NRDC Advocate Named "Hero of the Seas" for Creating Underwater Parks: posted by Frances Beinecke, 5/15/13
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