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Loss of world's seagrass beds seen accelerating

Reuters: Science - Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:24pm EDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - The world's seagrass meadows, a critical habitat for marine life and profit-maker for the fishing industry, are in decline due to coastal development and the losses are accelerating, according to a new study.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=hbv6d0mOuyk:ob0zgx91xm8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=hbv6d0mOuyk:ob0zgx91xm8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=hbv6d0mOuyk:ob0zgx91xm8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=hbv6d0mOuyk:ob0zgx91xm8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=hbv6d0mOuyk:ob0zgx91xm8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/hbv6d0mOuyk" height="1" width="1"/

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