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A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean Conservancy's 2012 Coastal Cleanup.
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Picking Up Trash Along the Coast

A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean...
An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.
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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast...
Lost nets become entangled on a coral reef in the NW Hawaiian Islands, doing damage for decades. Wave action on the net breaks pieces of coral off until the net breaks, when it is free to catch on new reefs and do more damage.
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Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

The impacts of derelict fishing gear on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands coral reef...
About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

This roughly 300 foot long gill net was found abandoned on a shallow reef in the...
A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded net. Discarded nets continue to fish long after they have been lost, devastating the local fish populations and choking the life out of the reef on which it becomes entangled
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Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded...
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...
Head shot of Dr. Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
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Lecture: "Troubled Waters in the Gulf of Mexico"

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill brought the world's attention to the Gulf of...
A sunset over Boston Harbor.
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Sunset over Boston Harbor

A sunset over Boston Harbor. Called the "harbor of shame" in the 1980s due to raw...
The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and more than a mile thick.
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Jakobshavn Glacier

The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and...
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989 when an oil tanker grounded on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It spilled almost 11 million gallons of crude oil, which reached 1,300 miles of coastline. The spill's remote location, accessib
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989 when an oil tanker grounded...
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