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These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed cell are forming into fat cells after exposure to endocrine disruptors.

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Cells Get Fat

These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed...

Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.

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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead...

Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, tows a surface float at Millennium Atoll in the South Pacific.

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Diver With Shark

Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution...

GEOMAR scientist Armin Form works at his lab during a long-term experiment on the effects of lower pH, higher temperatures and "food stress" on the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa.

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Deep-water Corals and Acidification

GEOMAR scientist Armin Form works at his lab during a long-term experiment on the...

Researchers can study ocean acidification in the lab by rearing organisms (here, Lophelia deep-sea corals) in seawater with variable pH and measuring if they grow, eat, breathe, reproduce, or develop differently.

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Studying Acidification in the Lab

Researchers can study ocean acidification in the lab by rearing organisms in...

By pumping enormous test tubes that are 60-feet deep and hold almost 15,000 gallons of water with carbon dioxide to make the water inside more acidic, researchers can study how zooplankton, phytoplankton and other small organisms will adapt in the wild.

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Studying Acidification in the Field

When studying ocean acidification in the lab, it's hard to study more than one or...

Branching coral in naturally acidic water.

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Fragile Branching Corals in Acidic Water

Branching corals, because of their more fragile structure, struggle to survive in...

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Monoculture of Boulder Corals

Close to the volcanic CO2 seeps, the vast diversity of corals that exists in...

A healthy and vibrant coral reef in Papua New Guinea.

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A Healthy Coral Reef

Far away from the volcanic CO2 seeps, a healthy coral reef flourishes with a...

Acidic waters are also able to completely dissolve coral skeletons.

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Dissolving Coral Skeleton in Acidic Waters

Near the intense volcanic CO2 vents bubbling from the cracks in the seafloor, the...

'Blue Marble' satellite image of the Earth

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'Blue Marble' Image of the Earth

'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most...

A marine scientist performs a genetic analysis on a sample of deep-sea coral to find out if it is a known or new species.

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Genetic Analysis of Coral

A marine scientist performs a genetic analysis on a sample of deep-sea coral to...

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Monoculture of Boulder Corals

A Healthy Coral Reef

Dissolving Coral Skeleton in Acidic Waters

'Blue Marble' Image of the Earth

Genetic Analysis of Coral

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