The World - News from July 25, 1988
Thousands of people formed a human chain in many northern coastal resorts of West Germany to protest North Sea pollution, police said. The protest, organized by tourist authorities in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and involving various groups, demanded specific measures to end marine pollution. The extent of North Sea pollution was dramatized recently when carpets of algae, which feed on waste material dumped in the sea, devastated marine life off the Scandinavian coast. The mysterious deaths of hundreds of seals in the North Sea since last April have also sparked widespread concern.
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