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A comic explaining the impacts of global warming
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Student Comic Winner: The Impact of Global Warming

Sometimes, the key to understanding a complex scientific concept comes from a...
A bloom of algae from up above
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Algae Bloom Brings a Red Tide

An algae called Karenia brevis can bloom into a sea of red when there are...
Humpback whales spend their summers feeding in cold, food-filled Arctic and Antarctic waters before swimming to warmer waters for the winter.
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Humpback Whales Going After Herring

"For the last few years, Norwegian herring have migrated to coastal waters outside...
A view of McMurdo Station with a frozen Ross Sea in the background.
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McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Since 1955, scientists...
The MV Hanse Explorer
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Aboard the MV Hanse Explorer

Scientists aboard the MV Hanse Explorer have to fit a lot of scientific equipment...
Red Algae
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Branching Red Algae

Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....
Unlike the green, leafy algae we're used to seeing, coralline algae has a hard crust—which you can see here at the molecular level under a scanning electron microscope.
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Coralline Algae Under the Microscope

Unlike the green, leafy algae we're used to seeing on the seafloor, coralline algae...
One of the smallest shearwaters in the Atlantic, Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) is about the size of an American Robin.
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Audubon's Shearwater

One of the smallest shearwaters in the Atlantic, Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus...
Sooty Shearwaters Migrate
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Sooty Shearwater

Sooty Shearwaters (Ardenna grisea) are the migration kings of the ocean and cover...
Nutrient influxes can cause phytoplankton blooms in the Antarctic.
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Antarctic

Seasons in the Ross Sea are marked by ice freezing and melting, and these processes...
Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore.
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Floating Antarctic Comb Jelly

Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore. The rainbow...
Fish have certain adaptations, like blood with built-in antifreeze, to survive in the Antarctic.
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Fish Adapt to Icy Water

This shadowy fish, Trematomus bernacchii, is well adapted to the ice-cold...

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