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Measurements of carbon dioxide in atmosphere since 1958
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Keeling Curve

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Portrait of Mary Anning, before 1842
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Portrait of Mary Anning, before 1842

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A Peacock Mantis Shrimp clutches her eggs
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A Mother's Clutch

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Two bright blue mandarine fish mating
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Mating Mandarin Fish

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A view of McMurdo Station with a frozen Ross Sea in the background.
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McMurdo Station

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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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Building a Better Dispersant: When we wash dishes at home, we use dish soap to break up and wash away any oil that is stuck to our plates and utensils. Similarly, stronger soap-like chemicals called dispersants can be used to break up oil spills, like thos
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Building a Better Dispersant

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Large organisms, like these tunicates, live inside the recesses of a ship's hull while microscopic organisms form a film across all the painted surfaces on the boat.
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Tunicates On Hull of Boat

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Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus all have differently shaped pupils— an octopus has a rectangular pupil.
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Octopus Eyes

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A photo of a red-colored sea anemone photographed in the Baltic Sea.
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Urticina Felina, a Baltic Sea Anemone

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A photograph of a bright blue-speckeled dinoflagellate bioluminescing at night.
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Bioluminescing Dinoflagellate

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A NASA satellite image from August 23, 2011 of Hurricane Irene, the Atlantic basin's first hurricane of 2011.
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Hurricane Irene

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