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A large ship flushes water from its ballast tanks while at sea
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5 Invasive Species You Should Know

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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 scientist in a white lab coat stands in laboratory holding a jar of marine specimens.
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Scientist and his Wet Specimens

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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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A fish from a deep underwater expedition sits preserved on a bed of ice.
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Fish on Ice

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A map of the Mid Ocean Ridge
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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor

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Coral Sand
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Coral Sand Under a Microscope

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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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Phoenix, a North Atlantic right whale tracked by researchers, was spotted near New Hampshire on May 5th, 2010.
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Phoenix Sighting May 2010

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Seabirds on a rocky outcrop.
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A Gathering of Seabirds and Seals

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