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The Amazon River carries all the rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean. And with it, it carries vital nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and silicon.
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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...
July 2014
A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012
Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island

The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012
Cut of Atlantic Salmon on a Plate
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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

Salmon are one of the most widely loved varieties of seafood in the world. A...
December 2010
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