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A female napoleon wrasse swims by a reef
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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

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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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Bony Beginnings: The Rise of Vertebrate Innovation in the Devonian

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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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An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulf Oil Spill

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Mary Rice: A Force of Nature

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.
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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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Bringing Back Tampa Bay’s Seagrass

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A manatee swims in Crystal River, Florida.
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From Mermaids to Manatees: the Myth and the Reality

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pancakes of ice cover the ocean
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Winter Under the Waves

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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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CARTHE Drifters: Where does oil go when it is spilled?

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