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Heartbeats in the muck : the history, sea life, and environment of New York Harbor /
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Empire State Editions,
2013.
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| Edición: | Rev. edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural environment. Garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy metals, poisonous PCBs, landfills, and dredging greatly diminished life in the harbor, in some places to nil. Now, forty years after the Clean Water Act began to resurrect New York Harbor, John Waldman delivers a new editio. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 150 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0823249875 9780823249879 9780823252589 0823252582 |