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For over 25 years - despite voluntary measures and regulations across six states and Washington, DC - the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, remains polluted, its tributaries largely unswimable and unfishable. Agriculture produces about half that pollution. The rest comes from sewage treatment, atmospheric toxins and runoff from lawns and streets in cities and suburbs. In this five part series, VOA’s Rosanne Skirble takes listeners and viewers into the Chesapeake Bay watershed to explore its beauty, its decline and the movement to restore it.

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Chesapeake Bay Restoration, One Stream at a Time

Farmers, homeowners, industry share common goal for clean water

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New policies target polluters for recovery of nation's largest estuary

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A young gray seal appears in partly frozen water at a breeding station for seals in Friedrichskoog,northern Germany.
 

 

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Rebecca Ward reports on threats to amphibians and how captive breeding programs may help save them from extinction.

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A fungus spread by the trade in amphibians has led to the extinction of about 120 species of frogs around the world.

 

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