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Living on the Edge: Mangroves

Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...

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Seagrasses and Light in the Chesapeake Bay

Seagrasses growing on the seafloor of the Chesapeake Bay rely on light to...

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Investigating Nutrient Pollution's Impact on Mangroves

At Carrie Bow Cay in Belize, Dr. Candy Feller explains her research on the effect...

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How Mangroves Deal with Saltwater

Looking at a white mangrove (Avicennia marina) leaf cross-section under the...

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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller...

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Branching Red Algae

Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....

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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

The shells of radiolarians rank among some of the treasures of the ocean, with...

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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...

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A Diatom Helix

This beautiful marine diatom Chaetoceros debilis was caught in the North Sea. Not...

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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...

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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...

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Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places

Over the past several decades, Florida’s coastal wetlands have been changing....