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A new United Nations report states cleaner and better-managed seas and coasts would help boost economic growth and reduce poverty and pollution. Around 40 percent of the global population lives within 100 kilometers of a coast so the world's marine ecosystems provide essential food, shelter and jobs to millions of people. But pollution from oil spills, fertilizers, waste, sewage and chemicals, as well as over-fishing, have damaged the health and productivity of the seas. [Source: Reuters]
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