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We’re passionate about protecting our playgrounds and the critical threats to our natural world are seemingly everywhere. Understanding an issue is the first step to fixing it, and we help you to understand the issues facing the planet today.

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Dissecting the Economics of Offshore Drilling

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This Ingenious Reusable Straw Raised Over $450,000 on Kickstarter in Just Five Days

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Image: DREEF ATSIMO ANDREFANA/National Geographic
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10,000 Illegally Poached Tortoises Found Crammed in a House in Madagascar

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Sustained ocean warming could greatly reduce catches of fish like these herring photographed off Norway.
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Climate Change Could Alter Ocean Food Chains, Leading to Far Fewer Fish

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Might as well head to Mars sooner rather than later... Photo: Pixabay/Creative Commons
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Happy Mars Day! A Salute to 3 Institutions Accelerating the End of the Earth

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The researchers were part of an ocean exploratory expedition to find out more about what goes on in the Gulf of Mexico's deep-sea habitats when they filmed a squid behaving extraordinarily strangely.
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Researchers Captured Video of the ‘Most Bizarre’ Squid They’ve Ever Seen

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Staghorn and tabular corals suffered mass die-offs, robbing many individual reefs of their characteristic shapes. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ Mia Hoogenboom
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How the 2016 Bleaching Altered the Shape of the Northern Great Barrier Reef

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The Atlantic Ocean Just Dropped the Hottest Single of 2018

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How the Commodification of Water for Profit Fuels a Global Crisis

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This Ph.D. Student Is Discovering Ways Plastic Gets Into Our Ocean that You’d Never Imagine

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Surfrider and Chicago Are Going Toe-to-Toe with US Steel Over Lake Michigan Spills

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Boyan Slat, the Young Visionary Behind the Ocean Cleanup Project, Goes on Joe Rogan

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Scientists Just Inadvertently Created a Mutant Enzyme that Eats Plastic Bottles

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Santa Cruz-Based Foam Company Hopes to Make Surfboard Blanks from Seafood Waste

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A new ocean current was recently discovered off the coast of Madagascar that feeds into the Mozambique channel and affects the greater Agulhas Current system. Image: Shutterstock
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Researchers Discovered an Important New Ocean Current Off the Coast of Madagascar

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Hawaiian Airlines Is Giving Out Free Reef-Safe Sunscreen to Passengers All of April

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Why Florida’s Surfers Are Facing a Fight to Access the Waves in Their Own Backyard

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How Seismic Blasting and Offshore Drilling Can and Will Impact Marine Life in the U.S.

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An aerial view of Portugal's Vilarinho da Furna dam. Image: Shutterstock
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Renewables Supplied 104 Percent of Portugal’s Electricity In March

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