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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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The Moon Made Me Do It!

Much like rising and setting sun has an impact on life on Earth, the cycle of the...
Tue, 07/10/2018 - 13:03
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An image from a drone of Majuro island
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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

For residents of the Marshall Islands, a system of over a thousand islands found on...
June 2018
Screenshot of Nancy Knowlton speaking at "Lecture: One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill"
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Lecture: One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, opening up a well that...
Tue, 04/26/2011 - 17:02
David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at Seattle’s Pike Place Market
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Sustainable Fishing

Humans across the globe rely on the ocean as a main source of food. We enjoy fish...
April 2018
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...
Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

Students will learn via experimentation that ice formations on land will cause a...
Tue, 03/23/2010 - 11:20
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data

Students will use graphical data to understand changing sea levels and how they...
Fri, 03/19/2010 - 14:07
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Fish and Kids

A package containing lessons, worksheets, and activities to teach young students...
Thu, 09/24/2009 - 17:55
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An underwater photo of Southern Bluefin Tuna swimming above a fish farm net.
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Tunas and Marlins Officially Classified as Threatened

Extinction is a real possibility for three species of tunas. That’s one of the...
July 2011

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