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Informative, colorful stories about the ocean — researched and published daily, and shared to Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Coral Reefs

Coral Babies: Florida's Lab-Grown Reef Comeback

Florida hatcheries are raising thousands of baby corals on land and returning them to the sea—proof that a warming reef can be rebuilt one polyp at a time.

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Ocean Science

The Underwater Prairie That Came Back From Nothing

Seventy years after disease wiped out Virginia's eelgrass, 70 million hand-scattered seeds have grown the world's largest seagrass restoration — and a carbon vault to match.

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Marine Life

The Humpback Comeback: How a Whale Went From 100 to 50,000

Four decades after the whaling ban, humpback whales are one of the ocean's greatest recovery stories—and proof that protection works.

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Marine Life

The Sea Turtle Comeback Washing Up on Florida's Beaches

Record nesting on Florida's shores and a landmark IUCN downlisting reveal one of conservation's great comebacks — and it started with communities paying attention.

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Ocean Science

A Ghost Shark, a Glass Castle, and 1,121 New Ocean Neighbors

In a single year, the Ocean Census logged 1,121 species new to science — proof the sea still guards more life than we've ever named.

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Conscious Consumption

Five Conscious Swaps That Keep Plastic Out of the Sea

You don't have to overhaul your life to help the ocean. Five small, sticky habit changes that stop plastic before it ever reaches the water.

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Coral Reefs

Why Coral Reefs Are the Ocean's Rainforests

They cover less than 1% of the ocean floor but shelter a quarter of all marine life. Meet the living cities beneath the waves — and what it takes to keep them alive.

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Plastic Pollution

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Explained

It is not an island you can walk on — it is a diffuse concentration of plastic spread across roughly 1.6 million square kilometres of the North Pacific. Here is how big the Great Pacific Garbage Patch actually is, where it sits, what it is made of, and what can realistically be done about it.

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