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Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.
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How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

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Turning Nets Into Carpet

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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a seastar
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Oil’s Impact on Marine Invertebrates

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Interactive
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Interactive

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A sculpture of a giant octopus made of ocean debris
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Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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Ocean Trash Plaguing Our Sea

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an autonomous underwater vehicle
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REMUS the Robot

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A zodiac boat and bamboo plates in the ocean
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Bamboo Plates Map Currents

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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 1

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Illustration of an offshore oil rig.
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What Are Fossil Fuels?

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Tiny jellies in a petri dish.
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Fishing for Plastic: Science in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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