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Barack Obama national marine monument
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A Federal Court Just Upheld an Oceanic National Monument Obama Created

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The 85-mile-long reef was discovered off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Image: NOAA
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Researchers Found an 85-Mile Long, Centuries-Old Coral Reef In the Atlantic

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Victim of tsunami in Sulawesi
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Sulawesi Tsunami: Would a Better Warning System Have Saved Lives?

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The E/V Nautilus stumbled on a gulper eel recently, and their commentary is hilarious.
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Scientists React Hilariously After Stumbling on This Eel That Blows Up Like a Balloon

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shark spotting drone australia
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SharkSpotter Combines AI and Drone Technology to Spot Sharks on Australian Beaches

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Killer Whales and Orcas
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Killer Whales: Than Half of the World’s Orcas are Threatened by Leftover Industrial Chemicals

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Entrepreneur Pledges to Paddle from Los Angeles to Catalina Butt Naked

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A bodyboarder was killed in a shark attack off Cape Cod, Massachusetts earlier this year. How that community responds to a growing population of sharks, though, remains to be seen. Photo: Flickr/travelbagltd
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After a Fatal Shark Attack on Cape Cod, Will the Reaction Be Coexistence or Culling?

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UCLA Ph.D. student Megyn Rugh swabs a surfer's nose to test for the presence of superbugs. Photo: The Surfer Resistance Project
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Are Southern California Surfers More at Risk of Being Colonized by ‘Superbugs?’

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This Yacht Is Designed to Power Itself By Cleaning 5 Tons of Plastic a Day

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NASA image hurricane florence flooding rivers
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NASA’s Hurricane Florence Flooding Images Show Extraordinary Amounts of Debris Flowing Into Ocean

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"Stop giving power to politicians that don't believe in science, or worse, pretend they don't believe in science for their own self interests." Photo: Screenshot/Youtube
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Watch Harrison Ford Deliver a Chilling, Impassioned Speech on Climate Change

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The photo on the left shows the area of beach intact back in February (left) and a photo taken on Monday (right) where the shoreline has eroded well into the treeline. Photo: Left: Leasha Langford/Facebook Right: Rainbow Beach Helicopters/Facebook
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Stretch of Australian Beach Swallowed by the Ocean in ‘Nearshore Landslip’ Event

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If someone asked you what lava sounds like as it slowly flows down a hill, what would you guess? Does it ooze? Does it gurgle? The answer might surprise you. Photo: Pixabay
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The Incredible Sound of the Kilauea Lava Flow May Be Wildly Different Than What You Think

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California solar power
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Is California’s Plan to Become Carbon-Free by 2045 Actually Feasible?

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Humpback whales breaching
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Whale Watchers Stunned By Extraordinary Humpback Whale Triple Breach

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Octopus
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Scientists Dosed an Octopus With MDMA and It Engaged In Some Serious Heavy Petting

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Derwent River sea star extinction
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The Derwent River Seastar Is Officially Australia’s First Documented Marine Animal Extinction

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California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on Thursday that would prohibit full service restaurants from automatically serving drinks with plastic straws. Photo: Pixabay
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California Just Banned Plastic Straws at Restaurants – Unless Customers Request Them

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