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"Break On Through" was taken by Wendy Wolf at California's Pfeiffer Beach. This photo was a winning selection in the Portraits of Planet Ocean Flickr contest.
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Break on Through - Wendy Wolf

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Plastic Garbage Litters a Beach

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Dead sharks caught in fish net.
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Sharks caught in nets

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A diver swims among a school of fish at Bikini Atoll, a reef which has shown resilience and recovered from nuclear testing in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Diver Swims with Fish at Bikini Atoll

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Flattened against a leaf, a tree frog blends right in with the mangroves.
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Tree Frog

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The robotic underwater glider Scarlet Knight crossed the Atlantic over the course of several months in 2009.
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Map of Robotic Glider's Route

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The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

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Human activity is increasing in the Arctic marine environment due to climate change. To help the most vulnerable areas, the Global Marine Program of IUCN, along with partners, is convening a series of workshops aimed at enhancing ecosystem-based management and identifying biologically or ecologically important or vulnerable habitats. Burgerbukta, a bay in Svalbard, Norway, is being managed for ecosystem protection.
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The Sant Ocean Hall: Life at the Poles Exhibit

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Fishing for the Future

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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It’s Sedimentary, My Dear Watson

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Where There’s Smoke…

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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The Methane Circus

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