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A tiny larval (baby) starfish.
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Larval Starfish

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A placard warns residents that water—and anything else—that goes own this storm drain makes its way into the Potomac River and, eventually the ocean.
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Marked Storm Drain

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Gulf Coast of Florida tidal flats exposed by an early morning low tide.
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Low Tide on the Gulf Coast

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two veterinarians listen to a dolphins heart next to a dock
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Navy Dolphin

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A student helps deploy one of his school's adopted drifters for NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program.
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NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program

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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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Map showing the range of the eastern and western populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna and their spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Distribution Map

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Graduate students Danielle Young from Temple University and Dannise Ruiz from Penn State preparing oil and dispersant solutions for exposure experiments with deep sea corals aboard the exploration vessel E/V Nautilus.
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Testing Impacts of Dispersants

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Burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, spews almost 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
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Smokestack from coal plant

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Close-up of a 17th century painting shows how whales were brought ashore for processing and their blubber rendered into marketable oil.
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Basque Whalers

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Antarctica is almost entirely covered by ice sheets up to two miles (3 km) thick, which contain roughly 70% of the world’s freshwater.
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Ross Sea Ice Shelf

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a wood frame dries walrus hide
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Walrus Hide

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