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Midway Atoll, where these photos were taken, is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest land.These photos portray baby albatrosses, which are fed the plastic by their parents. A chick can have an ounce of plastic in its belly and remain healthy; the dead ch
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 2

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A round sea potato with hair-like spikes laying flat against its body.
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Sea Potato

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A Florida manatee swims through a channel into a freshwater spring late in the day.
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Florida Manatee

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Auster gets ready to study fish predators at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia.
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Auster Dives on a Rock Face

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Graph of magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes from 1900- April 2011.
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Graph of magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes from 1900- April 2011

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A silhouette of a small boat carrying 8 passengers on tranquil water, with a pink horizon.
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Carteret Islands Row

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A Gulf Coast resident sits on his boat, smiling for the camera.
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Smiling Gulf Coast Man

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A photo of a seaside town with boats docked in the harbor and buildings along the shore.
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Seaside Fishing Town

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A bird sits atop an outcrop of rocks surrounded by turbulent water.
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Offshore Rock Island

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Marine researchers Carole Baldwin and Adrien Schrier wear santa hats in a submersible in the Caribbean.
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Lovely Weather for a Sub Ride Together With You

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Puffin in Flight, Pribilof Islands Alaska
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Puffin in Flight

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This illustration shows whalers of the early 1800s with their highly profitable catch.
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Whalers in the early 1800s

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