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Screenshot of "Investigating Nutrient Pollution's Impact on Mangroves" showing a boat heading into the mangroves.
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Investigating Nutrient Pollution's Impact on Mangroves

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A white fleck of plastic is engulfed by a coral polyp.
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Coral Eating Piece of Plastic

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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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Artist Chris Jordan, who took these photos, is making a documentary about Laysan albatrosses on Midway Atoll and their plastic problem. Watch the trailer.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 10

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An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.
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Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean

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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 sunset over Boston Harbor.
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Sunset over Boston Harbor

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Pile of Plastic Trash
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Plastic Trash Looms

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Fire fighting ships surround the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig, shooting water at it to put out the flames.
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Deepwater Horizon Fire

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Oil, Oil Everywhere

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an oyster shell on a beach
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded net. Discarded nets continue to fish long after they have been lost, devastating the local fish populations and choking the life out of the reef on which it becomes entangled
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Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

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