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     Environmental Debate Sites:      

Debate Central
http://www.debate-central.org/

Environmental Organizations:

American Oceans Campaign
http://www.americanoceans.org/

Environmental Research Institute
http://www.niwa-eri.org/natural-intro.htm

EPA Department of Oceans, Wetland and Watersheds
http://www.epa.gov/owow/

Ecological Society of America
http://www.esa.org/

Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/oceans/

Marine Conservation Alliance
http://www.marineconservationalliance.org/

National Council for Science and the Environment
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/

Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/
Ocean Conservancy
http://www.oceanconservancy.org/

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Government Sites

EPA: Oceans, Coasts and Estuaries
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/

USGS : Water Resources of the United States
http://water.usgs.gov/

NOAA Site Index
http://www.noaa.gov/sitemap.html

US Commission on Ocean Policy
http://oceancommission.gov/

United States Department of State:  Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
http://www.state.gov/g/oes/

International Information

Oceans and the Law of the Sea
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm
United Nations

International Maritime Organization
http://www.imo.org/home.asp

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/United Nations

Oceana
http://www.oceana.org/

Ocean Law

http://www.oceanlaw.org

World Wildlife Federation:  Endangered Seas Programme

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/marine/index.cfm

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Noise Pollution and Military Sonar

Spread of Active Sonar Threatens Whales

http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/nlfa.asp

Environmental Groups and Navy Square Off On Sonar
http://www.iwc.org/world_whale_news/2002/sonar_4_15.pdf
Federal Court Blocks Full Deployment of Navy Low Frequency Active Sonar System

http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/021031.asp

LFA Sonar:  Is it Worth the Risk
http://www.oceanmammalinst.org/zurich-lfa-address.htm

Oil Spills, Tankers, etc

U.S. Rejects State's (Washington State) Maritime Laws

http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/SGLC/locke.htm

USA Today:  Links to Washington State government documents

http://supreme.usatoday.findlaw.com/supreme_court/docket/decdocket.html

NEWS:  TankerWorld

http://www.tankerworld.com/

Yahoo News:  Oil Spills

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=oil_spills

The Coming Global Oil Crisishttp://www.oilcrisis.com/

Misunderstandings about Oil Spills

http://www.doi.gov/energy_security/ProtectingOceans.html

Australian Institute of Petroleum

http://www.aip.com.au/industry/fact_oceans.htm

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Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs at Risk

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/PR/coralhome.html

Plight of the coral reefs : Action Atlas

http://www.motherjones.com/coral_reef/index.html

Deep Sea Dumping

BBC  Deep Sea Mining:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/alien/further_mine.shtml

Deep Sea dumping NOAA
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/background/dumping/dumping.html

MarinePollution and Dumping

http://www.nearctica.com/environ/water/gmarine.htm

Treatment, Research, Pollution

Global Ballast Water Management
http://globallast.imo.org/

Government site:  Invasive Species

http://www.invasivespecies.gov/

Marine Invasions Research Lab
http://invasions.si.edu/

Solvency:  Ballast Water Treatment Systems: a Feasability Study

http://www.anstaskforce.gov/ballaststudy.htm

Solvency:  Feasability of Onshore Ballast Water Treatment at California Ports
http://www.epa.gov/owow/mts/capareport/

Arctic

Melting of Global Ice Cover Reaches New High

http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/000306.html

Arctic Council
http://www.arctic-council.org/index.html

Arctic Pollution Issues: State of the Arctic Environment Report

http://www.amap.no/assess/soaer-cn.htm

Polar Bears Threatened by Arctic Warming
http://archive.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/arctic/1998nov2.html


Marine Research organizations

Maritime Environmental Research Program

http://research.dnv.com/marmil/engelsk/Default.htm

Miscellaneous Links

National Geographic features list
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/
List of National Geographic articlesOcean Planet : Smithsonian
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

Joint Oceanographic Institutions
http://www.joi-odp.org/

Online Journals and News
Commission on Ocean Policy: News
http://www.oceancommission.gov/news/

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