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Nature 422, 464-466 (3 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422464a
How to clean a beach
John Whitfield1
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As oil-spill specialists continue to tackle the Prestige slick, they are drawing on knowledge from decades of clean-up operations. John Whitfield reports from Spain's Galician coast.
From the coast road, the beaches of Lira seem as they should be: yellow sand and blue sea. But walk down to the tide's edge and things change.
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