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Instructional video on Fukuoka Method for Leachate Treatment system implementation in Samoa, portraying vital important ways to control Leachate for landfill as implemented in Samoa at the Tafaigata Landfill for the purpose to safeguard the environment of water for people's daily life protection control.

Coral reef ecosystems have great economic, social and cultural importance to communities, businesses and nations around the world. These ecosystems provide a wide range of valuable ecological services, constituting a major food source, economic base, and future hope for sustainable development in many countries, particularly small island nations. Given these important roles of coral reefs across the globe, U.S. efforts to promote healthy coral reefs internationally are critical to U.S. diplomatic and development strategies to promote economic and food security, social stability, democratic governance, improved human health, disaster and climate change mitigation, and biodiversity conservation in many countries.

The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 (MSRA) includes a requirement to establish the "Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program." Section 408 (b) of the reauthorized Act tasked NOAA with submitting, in consultation with the Fisher)' Management Councils, "biennial reports to Congress and the public on steps taken by the Secretary to identify, monitor, and protect deep sea coral areas, including summaries of the results of mapping, research and data collection performed under the program." This is the first biennial report in fulfillment of that requirement.