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Make Your Own: Radiolarian

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On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.
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Sea Level Rise

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A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.
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Antarctic Log 2.3

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The Smithsonian Marine Mammal team moves into action after a dead sperm whale is spotted floating off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
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Sperm Whale Post-Mortem

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Ruth Meadows holds a Chimaera, a strange looking distant relative of the shark.
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NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows

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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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Pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts in his finery.
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Captain Bartholomew Roberts

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Acorn barnacles living on top of a crab.
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An Edible Crab Covered with Barnacles

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A brown sea hare sits in shallow ocean water.
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Sea Hare in the Intertidal Zone

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corals of many colors in the deep sea
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Deep Gulf Restoration After a Monumental Oil Spill

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How do plants respond to rising CO2 levels? To find out, plant physiologist Bert Drake monitors plants used in his CO2 study at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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CO2 Marsh Study

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Remotely operated vehicles, ROVs, aid in deep-sea ocean exploration
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Diving Deeper

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