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A diagram of white and orange stripes that represent magnetic polarity on the seafloor.
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Magnetic Stripe

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A multi-colored map of the mid-Atlantic ride made from satellite imagery.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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A map of the Pacific Ocean and the migration routes of the tuna
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna Migration

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A pipe on the seaflood discharges fish waste, such as bones and scraps, from processing factories that turn whole caught fish into filets that you buy in the supermarket.
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Seafood Outfall Pipe in Alaska

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"Break On Through" was taken by Wendy Wolf at California's Pfeiffer Beach. This photo was a winning selection in the Portraits of Planet Ocean Flickr contest.
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Break on Through - Wendy Wolf

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On August 23, 2011 a 5.8 earthquake emanated from the little-known Central Virginia Seismic Zone. The epicenter was near Mineral, VA, but the tremor shook homes, schools, and office buildings in Washington, DC and beyond. In this brief video, Smithsonian e
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Demonstrating an Earthquake's Seismic Waves

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Pile of Plastic Trash
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Plastic Trash Looms

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EPA Pick 5 for the Environment website screenshot
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Pick Five for the Environment

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Wooden painted fish on a school fence.
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Chinook Salmon: One Species at a Time

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A shark nursery in a lagoon in the Pacific.
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Baby sharks in lagoon

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A fish made from pieces of plastic found on the beach swims above a bleached reef made of Styrofoam.
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Bleached Styrofoam Reef

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A volunteer sorts washed plastic collected from the beach into buckets by color and size.
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Sorting Plastic from the Beach

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