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4Ocean Fashion

4Ocean Fashion

What’s the biggest obstacle to cleaning up our oceans? It might be the sheer volume of the job. Scientists say that there are 269,000 tons of plastic debris floating on the surfaces of the
world’s oceans.

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Zebra Mussels

Zebra Mussels

In the pantheon of invasive species, zebra mussels (and their cousin, the quagga mussel) have a place of honor–or maybe infamy is a better word. Since first being discovered in the Great Lakes area in 1988, the tiny bivalves have spread throughout the entire watershed

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How Low Can You Go?

How Low Can You Go?

The Mariana snail fish, the deepest known living fish, survives crushing pressures eight kilometres below the surface of the ocean, and they do it by being filled with watery goo.

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