President Obama said Thursday that protecting the world’s oceans from the threat of climate change is “personal” for him.

That is one of the reasons he announced the creation of the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday. The announcement follows last month’s creation of the largest marine preserve in the world, larger than the state of Texas, off the coast of Hawaii.

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