In June 2012 a dock from Japan washed up on Oregon’s Agate Beach in Newport. It had a thick layer of living organisms on it. Captions and Photo source: Oregon Department Of Fish And Wildlife
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Demolition experts on the west coast of the United States will this week tackle a continuing environmental threat created by last year’s Japanese devastating earthquake and tsunami.
A 20-metre long dock that washed up on the coast of Oregon will be broken up and removed following concerns over the possible spread of invasive plant and animal species…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK
Japan Tsunami Debris on Pagan Island: Financial Problems May Lead to a Second Environmental Mess, Scientific American
What would motivate a small island nation to settle for the foreign mining of its pozzolan resources, and sell one of its most limited commodities : land? This is a story about how a small island in the tropical pacific was proposed as a dumpsite for trash from the 2011 Japan tsunami.
