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

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Live from the Field: Bali, Indonesia

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

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

Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.

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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?

A great white shark in the waters of the coast of Guadelupe, Mexico.

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The results are in...

Polar bear siblings in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area near Hudson Bay spar playfully during migration.

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Help us pick the next OP stars

Students of the Alaska SeaLife Center delegation.

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Teens Take Action on the Ocean & Climate

The 2012 Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center dive class stand in a group together

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Scuba Diving Course a Success for IBRC Students

Pile of Plastic Trash

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Plastic Trash Plagues the Ocean

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

Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.

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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

Each year, thousands of local teachers join us for Smithsonian Teachers’ Night.

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Learning from a Sea of Teachers