Coastal Development, Environment

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/03-4

Big Island's Plastic Beach

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2008/08/plastic-beach.html

Garbage

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html

To Stop the Trawling

South Pacific to stop bottom trawling [devastation to coral and other marine life]

A quarter of the world's oceans will be protected from bottom trawling, South Pacific nations agree.

Full story:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/science/nature/6627425.stm