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How Laws Around the World Help Improve Ocean Health
Solving environmental problems often starts with small groups of people working to...
The Time For Earth Optimism is Now
Here at the Smithsonian we think the time for Earth Optimism is now. So we are...
November 2016
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Microbes Help Corals Pick a Home and Settle Down
Bacteria are everywhere in the ocean. They live in the water, on virtually every...
July 2014
An Ocean of Energy: Bringing Offshore Wind to America
Three miles off the coast of Block Island, a roughly ten square mile haven for...
August 2017
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous
In the frigid Arctic Ocean, a mysterious toothed whale—the narwhal— resides...
August 2017
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Coral Letters: A Message from the Corals of Curacao
If you look closely, you can read a message in the corals. We are not being...
June 2015
World Oceans Day 2012
Here at the Ocean Portal, we celebrate the ocean every day. But one day a year...
May 2012
Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada
For over a decade, Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center archaeologist, William...
September 2011