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As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...

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For residents of the Marshall Islands, a system of over a thousand islands found on...

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Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...

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Watch as a team of wave chasers heads to Somoa where they search for an undersea...