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Ideas for Change

"We too are sea creatures," entreats ocean explorer Sylvia Earle in this beautiful...

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Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World

With striking imagery from her book Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World,...

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Up Close and Personal with a Mangrove Root

I got a lot of funny looks at the airport when I opened the oversized cooler for...

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Bringing the Western Flyer, and History, Back to Life

As a first year graduate student in marine biology, I shared a large office with...

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Ray Bradbury and the Sea

Today Ray Bradbury died. It might seem strange that I'm writing about Bradbury here...

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Sea Monster Attack

A sea monster attacks a ship in an illustration for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by...

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Summer Beach Reads

Memorial Day is nearly upon us. We thought it'd be a good time to think about our...

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Ocean Reading

Fiction or non-fiction, short or epic...what are your favorite books about the...

Five Questions for Callum Roberts, Author and Professor

Callum Roberts is a professor of marine conservation at the University of York...

Citizens of the Sea

The incredible variety of marine life—in numbers, body form, behavior, and...

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Citizens of the Sea Cover

The cover of Dr. Nancy Knowlton's new book, Citizens of the Sea, published in...