Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.

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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.

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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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Arctic Been Current During Historical Icy Largely Priced Real
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.

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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.

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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.

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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.

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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.

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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.

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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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Hundred might Million Scientific Ten Treatise Underwater Write
Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.

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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Down Oil Once Rig See Some These Who Would

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