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Madison Stewart, known to many simply as “shark girl,” is an inspiring young woman with a passion to protect the creatures most people fear: sharks. She’s been diving with sharks since the age of twelve. Here she is feeding a group of Caribbean reef
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Shark Girl: Changing Shark Fear to Fascination

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A hermit crab looks out from its coral dwelling in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
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The Perfect Underwater Photo

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A view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as seen from a NOAA research aircraft, June 2010.
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Discoveries Abound During Oil Spill Research

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The Block Island wind farm is the first operational offshore wind farm in the United States. It consists of five wind turbines which powered up in December 2016 and were connected to the mainland energy grid in May 2017. 
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An Ocean of Energy: Bringing Offshore Wind to America

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A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.
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What We’re Reading 10/6

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Brian Skerry takes an up close photo of a tiger shark on the seafloor.
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Patience is a Virtue

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
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A Better Way to Measure Marine Life

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Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.
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Coral Scientist Brendan Roark: On an Urgent Mission

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a lanternfish's scales glitter blue in a black sea
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The Ocean at Night

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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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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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