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Palm oil spill wreaks havoc on Hong Kong beaches

Reuters | @justearthnews | 09 Aug 2017

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Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's waters. Grace Lee reports.