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Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.

North Atlantic Right Whale

Fish swim in Cabo Pulmo Marine Reserve off the Baja California peninsula.

Cabo Pulmo Protected Area

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

Sustainable Seafood

A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.

Ocean Acidification

An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Gulf Oil Spill

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A photo of plastic trash floating in the water, taken from below the surface.

Witness to a Plastic Invasion

Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with a hammerhead shark snow sculpture.

Saving Sharks and Dolphins, Near and Far

An underwater photo of Southern Bluefin Tuna swimming above a fish farm net.

Tunas and Marlins Officially Classified as Threatened

A red and yellow gyotaku-style fish print of a flounder

Educational Uses of Gyotaku or Fish Printing

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

Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

A photo of an oyster cage, out of the water, covered in sea squirts.

Alaska Vulnerable to Invasive Species from Warmer Waters

A graph of arctic ice coverage from 2011, showing data through September 7, 2011.

Arctic Sea Ice: A New Low?

A student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures

Teaching Your Students About Marine Debris: a Classroom Activity

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

Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

The Oil Spill, Two Years Later

Large numbers of grey reef sharks were observed at Jarvis Island, an uninhabited Pacific island, during the 2010 Pacific RAMP expedition of the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai.

Reef Sharks Repelled by People

Three dancers dependent on one another, as in the food web.

Dancing for the Oceans

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