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Cut of Atlantic Salmon on a Plate

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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

A beach clean-up in Malaysia brings young people together to care for their coastline.

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How You Can Help the Ocean

An opah at the Honolulu Fish Auction with a printed label attached that includes an ID number, bar code, the date, the receiver's ID number, the cart number, species name, vessel name, and weight of the fish.

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“Storied Fish”: Why Sustainable Seafood Requires A Tale

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Coral Reefs Need You

Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.

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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?

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Satellite view of Earth.

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Earth Day, Spawned from the Sea

Orange and red deep-sea corals.

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Deep-Sea Corals: NOAA Education Plans & Activities

Screenshot from "Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay" of students wearing life jackets on a boat.

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Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay

Screenshot from video of someone demonstrating light painting.

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Light Painting Tutorial

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Coral Reefs Need You

David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at Seattle’s Pike Place Market

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Sustainable Seafood Glossary of Terms

Participants in the challenge must first set a compass bearing in the direction they are headed to properly navigate underwater.

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SCUBAnauts Splitting The Sign

A light painted image of a hand-painted ceramic fish with light emitting from its mouth

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Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

Students share a microscope to get a closer look at plankton samples from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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A Current Event in the Classroom: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with a hammerhead shark snow sculpture.

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Saving Sharks and Dolphins, Near and Far

Sound artist Halsey Burgund performs his composition Ocean Voices.

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Five Questions for Halsey Burgund, Creator of Ocean Voices

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Live from the Field: Bali, Indonesia