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Living on the Edge: Mangroves

Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...

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Changing Tides - Brave New Ocean

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ocean acidification, and the decline of fish...

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Searching for Life -- Epibionts -- On Sea Turtles

Amanda Feuerstein with a nesting olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea). Feuerstein...

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Texas State Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...

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NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Museum Specialist Yolanda Villacampa

Yolanda Villacampa is a museum specialist in the invertebrate zoology department of...

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Invertebrates from the Gulf of Mexico

The Smithsonian's Department of Invertebrate Zoology has a collection of over...

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Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

When I set out to write a book about mollusks (called Spirals in Time), I wasn't...

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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...

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No Fouling Around

Since the dawn of seafaring, humankind has had to deal with the pesky creatures...

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Sanibel Island Shells: One Species at a Time

Ari Daniel Shapiro is joined for this episode of One Species at a Time by serious...

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Improving Grades for the Mesoamerican Reef

Report cards are useful in school because they help students and teachers keep...

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The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...