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A diver cares for the reef by cleaning up discarded fishing gear and garbage.
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Diver Cleaning Up Reef

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Guests at Smithsonian's Natural History Museum's 2010 sustainable seafood event
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Guests at Smithsonian's 2010 Sustainable Seafood Event

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David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at Seattle’s Pike Place Market
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Seattle Fishmonger

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Thumb of Ocean Optimism with greenish water and pinkish sky with clouds.
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Ocean Optimism - Video

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A large, white jellyfish floats through murky water
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Ghosts of the Ocean: Explaining Marine Life Devoid of Color

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A multi-colored map of the mid-Atlantic ride made from satellite imagery.
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How the Ocean Floor Helped Seal the Deal for Plate Tectonics

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a Māori woman in a navy blue fleece holds the skull of a beaked whale
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Tohunga Tohorā’s Intuition Reveals New Whale Species

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Riftia tubeworm (Riftia pachyptila) colonies near hot spring.
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The Microbes That Keep Hydrothermal Vents Pumping

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A baleen plate with a drawing of a ship in paint
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Artful Baleen Plates

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a diagram showing the parts of an ocean wave
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The Anatomy of a Wave

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shallow pans carved out of the sea coast create many pools with a seascape in the background
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The Salt Pans

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Two fishers in a canoe fishing
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Two Fishers Fishing

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