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A sunset over Boston Harbor.
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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
Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
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
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
Human activity is increasing in the Arctic marine environment due to climate change. To help the most vulnerable areas, the Global Marine Program of IUCN, along with partners, is convening a series of workshops aimed at enhancing ecosystem-based management and identifying biologically or ecologically important or vulnerable habitats. Burgerbukta, a bay in Svalbard, Norway, is being managed for ecosystem protection.

The Sant Ocean Hall: Life at the Poles Exhibit

Most of you know that the Earth’s poles are cold. But did you know that there are...
September 2011
The robotic underwater glider Scarlet Knight crossed the  Atlantic over the course of several months in 2009.
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Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean

Glider Technology Now Used to Study Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico The first...
October 2010
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