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A member of the medical staff comforts a patient infected by the novel coronavirus (PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Is the plague really lifting?

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Morning joggers make their way along the beach in Manhattan Beach, Calif. on Thursday, May 28, 2015. Popular beaches along nearly 7 miles of Los Angeles-area coastline are off-limits to surfing and swimming after balls of tar washed ashore. The beaches along south Santa Monica Bay appeared virtually free of oil Thursday morning after an overnight cleanup, but officials aren't sure if more tar will show up. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (AP)

“A never-ending commitment”

Lisa Song, Al Shaw - ProPublica
(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

What’s the value of a clean beach?

Timothy Haab - The Conversation
(Larry Benvenuti/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Danger awaits sea turtles in the ocean

Pamela T. Plotkin - The Conversation
A helicopter flies over the Ocean Crest Pier in Oak Island, N.C., Monday, June 15, 2015. A 12-year-old girl from Asheboro lost part of her arm and suffered a leg injury, and a 16-year-old boy from Colorado lost his left arm about an hour later and 2 miles away in two separate shark attacks late Sunday afternoon. (AP/Chuck Burton)

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-96482p1.html'>Valeri Potapova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
Tim Change, from the Bradenton Beach Public Works Dept., inspects beach erosion as a storm surge and high winds associated with Tropical Storm Debby batter Bradenton Beach, Fla., June 25, 2012. (Reuters)

Say goodbye to beaches

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Noah Berger)

Simeon Tegel - GlobalPost
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