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Offers news briefs related to the environment. Coral reefs along the Florida Keys that are endangered by southbound vessels that hug the coast to avoid the Gulf Stream; The risk of dying from solid cancers caused by radiation exposure; New technologies that have allowed Swedish pulp-and-paper mills to cut their use of chlorine in bleaching paper; Others.

Provides an update on several environmental issues as of April 1980. Source of magnetic smog that covered Washington D.C. and San Francisco, California; Information on the Swedish voters' support of continued use of nuclear power; Details on an environmental bill introduced by Representative Phillip Burton (D-Calif.) in the U.S. Congress.