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Pacific bird refuge struggles as ocean HEALTH

garbage patch grows DOCTOR ON DUTY

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at the center of the Great Clark said. "The Hawaiians there each year is just part Noord 527 3200
Pacific Garbage Patch, a call it a place of abun- of the problem. Sta. Cruz 527 2900
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