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Artificial Reefs: Help for Endangered Ecosystems or Ocean Junk?
A full 25 percent of all the marine life on the planet calls coral reefs home. But around the world, these natural habitats are in trouble. According to World Wildlife Fund, about one-quarter of
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The U.S. (and Us) Before the Environmental Protection Agency
As a kid, I looked forward to my weekend road trips with my big sister, who was old enough to have her driver’s license. We usually traveled along Interstate 90, up to northern Wisconsin.
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Warming Oceans Due to Climate Change Causing Seabird Deaths
Recently, in late 2016, hundreds of tufted puffins washed up dead on shores along the Bering Sea in Alaska. Earlier last year, tens of thousands of dead common murres were found on beaches from
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Video: Wear Lionfish Jewelry to Protect the Atlantic Ocean
Lionfish, a colorful native of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (the Indo-Pacific region) have now taken up what could become permanent residence in the Atlantic Ocean—from North Carolina to Florida, in all Gulf
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Cod: Save the Species or Preserve East Coast Economies?
Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet. While those facts about the poles get a lot
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As Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?
Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t
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