A baby sea turtle on a sandy beach.

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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.

Climate Change Overview

How is climate change impacting the oceans? This overview dives into everything to know.

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

North Atlantic Right Whale

Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.

Cabo Pulmo Protected Area

a spear fisher with a speared tropical fish

Sustainable Fishing

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

Conservation Articles

With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.

Beyond the Sea: How Oil Spills in the Ocean Affect Birds On Land

A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.

How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill

A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.

Building a Better Dispersant

Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.

Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.

Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean

Five Questions with Nancy Rabalais, Tracking Dead Zones In the Gulf

The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and more than a mile thick.

Up Close and Personal With the Fastest Glacier in the World

A wildlife biologist surveys oiled algae

Five Things The Gulf Oil Spill Has Taught Us About the Ocean

Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.

How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

A Barbudan fisherman with a fresh lobster catch!

The Blue Halo – Barbuda and Beyond

Un pescador se sienta en su bote y sostiene una captura de langosta fresca

The Blue Halo - Barbuda y más allá

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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