Star pupils: students inspire key study on alarming starfish decline
by Emily Holden in Washington from Environment | The Guardian on (#483P5)
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Five years ago, a sixth grade class in land-locked Arkansas heard about a mass die-off of starfish on the west coast and felt compelled to help.
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