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This rainbow sheen on the sea surface is what it looks like when the oil bubbles make it to the sea surface.
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Oily Sheen On Sea Surface

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The plastic includes big pieces, such as bottle caps and cigarette lighters, as well as plastic confetti, indiscernible to the human eye.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 6

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Much of the plastic comes from litter on land, which washes down storm drains and eventually makes it to the ocean. Some bits are from fishing nets and lines discarded by fishing boats.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 7

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A student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures
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Teaching Your Students About Marine Debris: a Classroom Activity

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A tiny larval (baby) starfish.
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The Invisible Loss: The Impacts of Oil You Do Not See

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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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Oil on the water’s surface in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Official Report on Gulf Oil Spill Released

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Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem

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A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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Pile of Plastic Trash
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Plastic Trash Plagues the Ocean

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Oil Spill Cleanup Challenge

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