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Divers swim near coral reefs teeming with fishes in the water off Komodo island, Indonesia, Thursday, April 30, 2009. Indonesia will hold an international ocean conference in North Sulawesi capital of Manado next week where delegates are expected endorse agreements aimed at protecting the ocean and coral reefs from the impacts of the climate change. Corals serve as breeding grounds and habitat for many of the world's marine species and act as indicators of overall ocean health. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Getting to the bottom of things

Anna Metaxas, Verena Tunnicliffe - The Conversation

(NOAA via AP)

How go GOP can kill wales, dolphins

(Getty/Daniela Agius)

The oyster is your world

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-360898p1.html'>Tory Kallman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Military's war on the whales

North Atlantic Right Whale (Stephen Meese/Shutterstock)

MAR Fellow Gaby Nava inspects one of her coral nurseries on one of the MesoAmerican reefs in Mexico. (Çapkin van Alphen, CauseCentric Productions)

Annemarie Dooling

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"A bad day for Antarctica"

(Gunther Riehle/Oceans of Life 2013)

Binata Pinata stands on top of a rock holding a fish her husband Kaibakia just caught off Bikeman islet, located off South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati, May 25, 2013. (Reuters)

CHRISTOPHER PALA - Earth Island Journal

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