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Laysan albatrosses will fly hundreds of miles to catch food to feed for their chicks. Or, rather, what looks like food: sometimes they catch floating plastic instead.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 5

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A photo of a European flounder in the Baltic Sea.
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Flounder Faces Pollution and Overfishing in Baltic Sea

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

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

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An estimated 5 tons of plastic are fed to albatross chicks each year at Midway Atoll.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 4

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Self Contained Gulf Oil Spill Kit

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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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corals of many colors in the deep sea
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Deep Gulf Restoration After a Monumental Oil Spill

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Researchers on a boat try to to catch an oiled pelican in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
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Netting an oiled pelican in the Gulf of Mexico

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A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.
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How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill

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the loop current in the Gulf of Mexico
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Tracking the Currents

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Fighting Plastic From Every Angle

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