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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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Newspapers with shark attack headlines in South Africa.
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Shark Attack Headlines

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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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Pirate on the high sea
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Pirate Captain Keitt

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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.
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Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

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Illustration of a real oarfish vs the Pokémon counterpart.
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Our Favorite Water Pokémon and Their Real-Life Doppelgängers

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Coral scientist Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a deep-sea coral bed off the coast of Hawaii.
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Deep-sea Corals

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An underwater photo of Southern Bluefin Tuna swimming above a fish farm net.
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Tunas and Marlins Officially Classified as Threatened

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This orange boring sponge (Cliona varians) overgrows several coral species at Panama's Smithsonian Tropical Studies Institute.
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Ocean Acidification Excites Boring Sponges

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Ari Friedlaender, a research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab, tags a blue whale.
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Acrobatic Blue Whales Do the Twist While Feeding

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A beach clean-up in Malaysia brings young people together to care for their coastline.
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Helping Kids Help the Ocean

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