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Note: Boldface page numbers Chernobyl nuclear accident
indicate illustrations. (Ukraine, 1986), 35
Clean Water Act (CWA, 1972),
Abrolhos Marine National Park 34, 61
(Brazil), 25 coal burning, pollutants from,
algal blooms, 38–40, 39, 37
39–40 coral reefs, 8–9
aluminum, 37–38 bleaching of, 46
Arctic, tracking oil spills in, 29 climate change and, 51–52
Arctic Domain Awareness decline in coral species
Center, 29 building, 47
efforts to restore, 59–61, 60
Baekeland, Leo, 11 freshwater kill of, 50
Bakelite, 11 importance of, 43–45
ballast, 33 monitoring of, 9
Bauman, Andrew, 48 ocean pollution and, 48–50
bilgewater, 33 plastic pollution and, 50
bioaccumulation, 37 Coral Restoration Foundation
bisphenol A, 19 (CRF), 59–60, 60
black water, 33 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves, 63
Brazil, 2019 oil spill in, 25 Crosby, Michael, 59
Bruckner, Andrew W., 45 cruise ships, 31, 32
amount of sewage produced
Canada, bans single-use by, 33
plastics, 9
Cantin, Neal, 42 dead zones, algal blooms and,
Challenger Deep (lowest spot 39
on earth), 6 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
chemical pollution, 36–37 (Gulf of Mexico, 2010),
from household chemicals, 23–24
40–41 cleanup of, 55–56

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