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  • The Deep Sea
    Jul 24 2012 - 1:41pm
    Deep below the ocean’s surface is a mysterious world that takes up 95% of Earth’s living space. It could hide 20 Washington Monuments stacked on top of each other. But the deep sea remains largely...

  • Mangroves
    Jul 24 2012 - 1:02pm
    Mangroves are survivors. With their roots submerged in water, mangrove trees thrive in hot, muddy, salty conditions that would quickly kill most plants. How do they do it? Through a series of...

  • Climate Change
    Jul 24 2012 - 11:45am
    Today, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our atmosphere are the highest they've been in 15 million years. It's the cumulative impact of an ever-expanding population -- 7 billion people and rising -- and...

  • Five Questions for Callum Roberts, Author and Professor
    Jul 18 2012 - 4:51pm

  • FLIP: The FLoating Instrument Platform
    Jul 2 2012 - 2:38pm
    You’re out to sea on a 355 foot platform, and suddenly one end begins to slowly tip underwater. Should there be a call for evacuation? Are you sinking? Not if you’re on FLIP – the FLoating Instrument...

  • World Oceans Day 2012
    May 30 2012 - 1:20pm
    Here at the Ocean Portal, we celebrate the ocean every day. But one day a year -- World Oceans Day on June 8 of each year -- is reserved for each person to join us in honoring that great, salty body...

  • Live from the Field: Bali, Indonesia
    May 29 2012 - 5:37pm
    About the IBRC The Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center (IBRC) was founded in June 2010 by a group of seven international research institutions to promote biodiversity stewardship in Indonesia...

  • Portraits of Planet Ocean: The Photography of Brian Skerry
    Apr 16 2012 - 11:03am

  • Five Questions for Halsey Burgund, Creator of Ocean Voices
    Mar 8 2012 - 12:28pm
    Real or imagined, everyone has a story about the ocean. In 2010 sound artist Halsey Burgund teamed up with marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols to record as many of these tales as they could. The...

  • Deep-Sea Corals: NOAA Education Plans & Activities
    Jan 23 2012 - 3:33pm
    Page 1 NOAA Multimedia Discovery Missions Coral reefs are vibrant ecosystems teeming with color and life. Most grow in the warm sunlit waters of tropical seas. Beautiful and accessible, shallow...

  • 5 Invasive Species You Should Know
    Sep 27 2011 - 1:09pm
    Regardless of what continent you live on, the waters that surround it are home to marine invaders. The ocean is teeming with plants and animals willing and able to move beyond their native habitats....

  • The Sant Ocean Hall: Life in the Sand Exhibit
    Sep 21 2011 - 2:04pm
    Sandy beaches are home to a Diversity of Life In the Shores and Shallows Gallery of the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall, a beach display features magnified grains of sand and the tiny beach critters...