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Obama's Hawaiian marine preserve: Massive potential, monumental challenges

  • Written by Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College
imageThe endangered Hawaiian monk seal is one of the 7,000 species that gained a measure of protection. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CC BY

President Obama’s environmental record just went big. On August 26, he quadrupled the size of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the center of the Pacific Ocean, northwest of...

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