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Thumbnail of a schematic of an island, boat, and a Right Whale.
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Ocean Optimism Video - Slow Down For Right Whales

Whaling, beginning in the 1600s, killed thousands of North Atlantic right whales...
Fri, 06/02/2017 - 07:25
A summertime channel carries melted ice to the sea. Antarctica and Greenland lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year from such melting.
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Ice Melt at the Poles

It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion...
Mangrove roots help to build the peat underlying mangrove islands and protect against erosion.
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Mangroves Protect Against Erosion

This is a close-up view of the peat soil surface in an intact mangrove forest....
To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San Diego Sediment Research Group) studied the environmental impact of dredging sediment from the waterways.
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Saving Venice, Italy

To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San...
These statistics come from a United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization review.
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Global Status of Marine Fish Stocks

These statistics come from a United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization...
An underwater photo of Southern Bluefin Tuna swimming above a fish farm net.
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Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)

Largely due to overfishing, the Southern Bluefin Tuna is listed as "critically...
Gulf Coast of Florida tidal flats exposed by an early morning low tide.
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Low Tide on the Gulf Coast

Gulf Coast of Florida tidal flats exposed by an early morning low tide ...
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