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Article
The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012
Personal Perspectives
How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep
It is a well-known fact that for animals living in the deep sea, food can be...
February 2013
slideshow
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Two Years Later
On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig Deepwater Horizon caused...
Fri, 04/20/2012 - 17:39
video
Investigating Nutrient Pollution's Impact on Mangroves
At Carrie Bow Cay in Belize, Dr. Candy Feller explains her research on the effect...
Thu, 03/08/2018 - 09:43
Article
Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses
Slip into the water along a sheltered coast in nearly any part of the world and...
May 2015
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean
There are millions of tiny drifting plants in the sunlit ocean, called...
March 2015
Lesson Plan
Modeling the Gulf of Mexico
This middle school science curriculum contains five lesson plans related to ocean...
Wed, 11/11/2020 - 13:57
Article
The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem
Any floating object in the ocean tends to attract life; fishermen know this and...
July 2013
Personal Perspectives
Signs of a Recovering Harbor
For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...
July 2013
Personal Perspectives
From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs
Reef biologists over a certain age are haunted by memories of what glorious places...
July 2014
Article
Earth Day, Spawned from the Sea
Sometimes I think that our planet Earth, named for the Old English word for “dry...
April 2015