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Invasive Species Hitchhiking on Tsunami Debris
Debris from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami is making landfall on the west coast of North America, carrying along with it invasive species.
It could be years before it is known which species will take hold and how much damage they will do, but there are living organisms on some of the tsunami debris. A dock that washed ashore in Newport, Oregon was covered in thousands of organisms in layers up to 15 centimeters thick.
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