| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 150 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Essential Harbor""; ""2 Vita Marinae""; ""3 The Medium: Sewers, Sludge, and Other Forms of Water Torture""; ""4 The Vessel: Bank and Bottom, Bulldozers and Blasts""; ""5 How Is the Harbor Doing?""; ""Epilogue: 2000�2012""; ""Annotated Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural environment. Garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy metals, poisonous PCBs, landfills, and dredging greatly diminished life in the harbor, in some places to nil. Now, forty years after the Clean Water Act began to resurrect New York Harbor, John Waldman delivers a new editio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Estuarine biology -- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Estuarine ecology -- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Estuarine biology
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Estuarine ecology
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United States -- New York Harbor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0823249875 |
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9780823249879 |
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9780823252589 |
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0823252582 |
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