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Human activity is increasing in the Arctic marine environment due to climate change. To help the most vulnerable areas, the Global Marine Program of IUCN, along with partners, is convening a series of workshops aimed at enhancing ecosystem-based management and identifying biologically or ecologically important or vulnerable habitats. Burgerbukta, a bay in Svalbard, Norway, is being managed for ecosystem protection.
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What is the Sea Ice Minimum? (And Why Do We Care)

Envision the Arctic and an icy, white world comes to mind. Unlike Antarctica, which...
August 2019
A walrus sits on top of ice.
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The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

Sea ice is typically viewed as the domain of physical and natural scientists, the...
March 2014
Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Making Science Sing: The Longest Time (Coral Triangle Edition)

How do you make science sing? Just ask a couple of female scientists to sing about...
July 2012
Cartoon t-shirts with got plankton.
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The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...
March 2018
Jeweler Palovi Baezar with her first set of lionfish earrings, which she made in the summer of 2013.
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When Life Gives You Lionfish…

It was the summer of 2013, and Phil Karp was staring at a dead lionfish. Earlier,...
July 2017
Happy World Ocean Day!
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Coral Letters: A Message from the Corals of Curacao

If you look closely, you can read a message in the corals. We are not being...
June 2015
A piece of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit.
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When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef

The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking...
October 2010
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