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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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows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...
August 2016
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
A newly established black mangrove sits in a field of salt marsh near the northern limit of mangroves in Florida. Mangroves have been expanding near their northern limit in Florida and the expansion is linked to a reduction in the frequency of ex
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Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places

Over the past several decades, Florida’s coastal wetlands have been changing....
February 2014
In 2011, storms and lack of ice-cover due to a warmer winter climate resulted in hundreds of seal pups being washed up on the shore of Prince Edward Island. Like many, this young seal faced an uncertain future. See more Nature's Best Photos.
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Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice

The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of...
September 2013
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Signs of a Recovering Harbor

For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...
July 2013
Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.
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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?

Lately we’ve been fielding questions from Smithsonian visitors wondering how they...
June 2010
Mangroves on the edge of the water.
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Mangrove Restoration: Letting Mother Nature Do The Work

The ecological importance of coastal mangrove forests is common knowledge today....
December 2016
Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.

Bringing Back Tampa Bay’s Seagrass

Back in the 1970s, if any seagrass grew beneath the shallow waters of Tampa Bay,...
January 2017
Cleaning up abandoned fishing nets
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Upcycled Ocean Plastic

The Possibilities Are Endless For Reuse of Plastic Ocean Trash Today, most...
August 2016
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to...
January 2016
Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.

Fighting Plastic From Every Angle

Ocean plastic comes in all shapes and sizes, from the flip-flops and bottles that...
September 2014
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

Five Questions for Richard Carson, Natural Resource Economist

In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William...
March 2014
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