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Alanna Mitchell

Alanna Mitchell is the author of Sea Sick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth (University of Chicago Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental reporting.

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The Gulf's Bigger Oil Disaster

Lost in the outrage over BP is the bigger environmental disaster: We’re doing more damage to ocean life—killing off species by making the water more acidic with burnt fossil fuels—every day than the spill ever could.

Alanna Mitchell

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