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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.
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A Rain Drop On An Oil Slick

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A prediction of where Irma was going to hit
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Hurricane Irma's Path

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A map of all historical hurricane tracks
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Hurricane Tracks

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A color coordinated hurricane basins table
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Hurricane Basins Table

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A worm-like mollusk coils around coral.
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Aplocophoran on Octocoral

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Many serpent stars spend their entire lives on a coral host.
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Serpent Star on Octocoral

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A giant sea spider on octocoral
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Giant Sea Spider

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Portrait of Ángeles Alvariño
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Ángeles Alvariño

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Fish larvae exposed to oil make fish slow to respond to predators, and more likely to take risks.
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Fish Larvae in Oil

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The five turbines off of Block Island successfully withstood winter storm Stella in March 2017, and even produced power through most of the storm. 
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Block Island Wind Turbines in Storm

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The Block Island Wind Farm used a reinforced building technique called a “jacket foundation” and sit in roughly 75 feet (23 m) of water.  
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Close-up of Block Island Wind Turbine

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