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The Tie Between the Ocean and Your Health
Human impacts on our oceans – pollution, climate change, coral bleaching – affect the health of all of us in some way. But marine environments are also a source of life-saving medications. Here’s why it’s important to protect these resources.
Ice algae get by on only a tiny amount of sunlight
Researchers have discovered the algae living under Greenland sea ice start photosynthesizing and growing with just 0.02% of the light available at the surface.
NOAA plans to deploy 20 drifting deep-sea acoustic sensors to listen for the elusive Cuvier’s beaked whale, which has been declining in population in recent years.
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