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Ocean Optimism Video - Slow Down For Right Whales

Whaling, beginning in the 1600s, killed thousands of North Atlantic right whales...

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The Future of the Ocean

Nancy Knowlton, the Sant Chair of Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum...

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Connecting Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are some of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet that are home...

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Ice Melt at the Poles

It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion...

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Protected Deep-sea Corals

These deep-sea corals at the Madison-Swanson Marine Reserve in the Gulf of Mexico...

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Coral Trapped in Trawler Net

While bottom trawling—a fishing method that drags a large net with heavy weights...

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The Coral Gardener

When coral reefs are damaged, they sometimes struggle to grow back because there...

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Mangroves Protect Against Erosion

This is a close-up view of the peat soil surface in an intact mangrove forest....

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Saving Venice, Italy

To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San...

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Global Status of Marine Fish Stocks

These statistics come from a United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization...

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American Samoa National Marine Sanctuary

American Samoa National Marine Sanctuary comprises a fringing coral reef ecosystem...

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From Despair to Repair

Sit down with two veteran marine scientists, Dr. Nancy Knowlton and Dr. Jeremy...