Weekly news lesson 304: 6th September 2012: Tiny Pacific island tops world ocean health index

By Karen Richardson

The 4.5-square-kilometre Jarvis Island has come top of the first comprehensive Ocean Health Index, which compares the world’s coastal countries and scores them for how well the seas around them benefit both man and nature. Richer nations fared better than developing ones, with war-torn Sierra Leone at the bottom.  

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