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The OP Community Manager

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Worldwide, installations of solar energy doubled from 2007 to 2008. China is leading the way in solar cell production.
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Installing Solar Panels

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Thousands of leaders and activists from across the planet converged at the UN Climate Change Summit in December 2009.
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Climate Change Summit, Copenhagen

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Giant mucus blobs growing in the Mediterranean because of warmer water.
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Diver and mucus blob

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Portrait of a scallop with black and white striped lips, whose shell is encrusted with a red sponge.
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Scallop

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The Fish Bite Fish is made exclusively from pieces of plastic that washed ashore with bite marks from fish and other animals to make the point that animals trying to eat floating plastic is a real problem.
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Fish Bite Fish

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A volunteer sorts washed plastic collected from the beach into buckets by color and size.
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Sorting Plastic from the Beach

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Much of the plastic comes from litter on land, which washes down storm drains and eventually makes it to the ocean. Some bits are from fishing nets and lines discarded by fishing boats.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 7

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A sea lion in the Sea of Cortez observes Auster as he observes reef fishes.
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Auster Diving with Sea Lion

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This colony of Lophelia pertusa was photographed from the Mingulay Reef Complex off Scotland in 2005.
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Lophelia pertusa Colony

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Gerardia, or gold coral, species often have a tree-like shape, as evident in this specimen.
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Gold Coral

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A painting of a working vessel moored at a dock.
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Chesapeake Boat Painting

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