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Everything here came from one beach. In a day.

Authentic EDge, August 2026 issue — a day's haul of marine debris collected by a UC San Diego cohort on a beach near Cairns, Australia August 2026 Latest

How one cohort turned a beach near Cairns into their data set.

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