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A bloom of algae from up above
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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...
August 2018
Microscopic beach dweller in the sand.
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Organisms Beneath the Sand

What’s lurking beneath your beach blanket? Even when a beach looks empty, the...
Wed, 06/07/2017 - 15:48
A screenshot from the video of seagrass in Chesapeake Bay.
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Seagrasses and Light in the Chesapeake Bay

Seagrasses growing on the seafloor of the Chesapeake Bay rely on light to...
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 09:35
Screenshot from video showing a close-up image of a plankton.
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The Secret Life of Plankton

Imagine if a fish at the market could tell you where it came from; what would it...
Fri, 08/25/2017 - 10:13
a man speaking at the podium
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World Oceans Day 2012 - Live Webcast

On World Oceans Day - June 8th, 2012 - the Living Oceans Foundation hosted a...
Thu, 05/24/2012 - 15:55
Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

Very few plant species can survive close to the ocean, where pounding surf fills...
August 2015
Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses

Slip into the water along a sheltered coast in nearly any part of the world and...
May 2015
School of blue rockfish in a kelp bed.
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Stinkin' Seaweed Makes Tasty Food for Coastal Animals

Most people try to avoid rotting kelp at the beach. The feeling of a floating piece...
October 2014
The Amazon River carries all the rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean. And with it, it carries vital nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and silicon.
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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...
July 2014
Many species of pink coralline algae, which cements coral reefs together, cover a reef surface in the Southern Line Islands.
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Coralline Algae: The Unsung Architects of Coral Reefs

Stare at a tide pool and you will often see a crust of pink coating the bottom. No,...
January 2014
Where the pH is the lowest, corals can no longer grow - sand, rubble and seagrasses replace the reef.
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Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean

Scientists don’t often get the opportunity to travel through time. But nestled...
August 2012
Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later

Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012

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