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NASA Satellites Capture Giant Ghostly Blue-Green Bloom Forming Off The Eastern Coast Of The USAPhytoplankton bloom on the east coast of the USA.

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NASA Satellites Capture Giant Ghostly Blue-Green Bloom Forming Off The Eastern Coast Of The USAPhytoplankton bloom on the east coast of the USA.
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NASA Satellites Capture Giant Ghostly Blue-Green Bloom Forming Off The Eastern Coast Of The USA

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Something Huge Is Headed For Florida As Scientists Anticipate An Unprecedented Sargassum Invasionsargassum on a beach

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Something Huge Is Headed For Florida As Scientists Anticipate An Unprecedented Sargassum Invasionsargassum on a beach
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Something Huge Is Headed For Florida As Scientists Anticipate An Unprecedented Sargassum Invasion

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The Bermuda Triangle May Be Laden With Myth, But The Sargasso Sea Is A Real Mysterymap of the sargasso sea

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The Bermuda Triangle May Be Laden With Myth, But The Sargasso Sea Is A Real Mysterymap of the sargasso sea
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The Bermuda Triangle May Be Laden With Myth, But The Sargasso Sea Is A Real Mystery

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The “Sailor’s Eyeball” Blob Is One Of The Largest Single-Celled Organisms Ever DiscoveredSailor's Eyeballs, aka sea pearls, are one of the largest ­– if not the largest ­– single-cell organisms in the world.

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The “Sailor’s Eyeball” Blob Is One Of The Largest Single-Celled Organisms Ever DiscoveredSailor's Eyeballs, aka sea pearls, are one of the largest ­– if not the largest ­– single-cell organisms in the world.
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The “Sailor’s Eyeball” Blob Is One Of The Largest Single-Celled Organisms Ever Discovered

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Prehistoric Algae Dormant For 7,000 Years Set Record For Longest ResurrectionThey look like beads of Baltic amber, but these are single-celled organisms revived from almost 7,000 years of dormancy at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

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Prehistoric Algae Dormant For 7,000 Years Set Record For Longest ResurrectionThey look like beads of Baltic amber, but these are single-celled organisms revived from almost 7,000 years of dormancy at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
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Prehistoric Algae Dormant For 7,000 Years Set Record For Longest Resurrection

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Scientists Sounding Alarm As World’s Largest Tropical Lake Turns GreenTrue-color satellite image of Lake Victoria

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Scientists Sounding Alarm As World’s Largest Tropical Lake Turns GreenTrue-color satellite image of Lake Victoria
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Scientists Sounding Alarm As World’s Largest Tropical Lake Turns Green

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Climate-Induced Poisoning Likely Behind Those 350 Elephant Deaths In BotswanaBotswana is home to many elephants.

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Climate-Induced Poisoning Likely Behind Those 350 Elephant Deaths In BotswanaBotswana is home to many elephants.
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Climate-Induced Poisoning Likely Behind Those 350 Elephant Deaths In Botswana

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Say Hello To Chonkus, The Sizeable Cyanobacterium That Could Combat Climate Changemicroscope image of cyanobacteria strain UTEX 3222

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Say Hello To Chonkus, The Sizeable Cyanobacterium That Could Combat Climate Changemicroscope image of cyanobacteria strain UTEX 3222
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Say Hello To Chonkus, The Sizeable Cyanobacterium That Could Combat Climate Change

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Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted ChloroplastsAnimal cells with chloroplasts

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Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted ChloroplastsAnimal cells with chloroplasts
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Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted Chloroplasts

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Why Did Lake Urmia Suddenly Turn Blood Red?Two images of Lake Urmia. The first shows the lake under ideal conditions, with blue water; the second shows the lake on July 18, 2016, with vividly red water.

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Why Did Lake Urmia Suddenly Turn Blood Red?Two images of Lake Urmia. The first shows the lake under ideal conditions, with blue water; the second shows the lake on July 18, 2016, with vividly red water.
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Why Did Lake Urmia Suddenly Turn Blood Red?

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Buckle Up! Microscopic Algae Are Driving Tiny "Scooters"Scanning electron microscope image, showing an example of green algae (Chlorophyta), Chlamydomanas reinhardtii

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Buckle Up! Microscopic Algae Are Driving Tiny "Scooters"Scanning electron microscope image, showing an example of green algae (Chlorophyta), Chlamydomanas reinhardtii
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Buckle Up! Microscopic Algae Are Driving Tiny "Scooters"

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To Make A Better Solar Cell Consult A Giant ClamGiant clam on the seabed with a bright blue mantle

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To Make A Better Solar Cell Consult A Giant ClamGiant clam on the seabed with a bright blue mantle
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To Make A Better Solar Cell Consult A Giant Clam

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Tiny Algae Hold Hope For Renewable Energy With Negative Carbon Emissionsmacro image of green algae suspended in water

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Tiny Algae Hold Hope For Renewable Energy With Negative Carbon Emissionsmacro image of green algae suspended in water
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Tiny Algae Hold Hope For Renewable Energy With Negative Carbon Emissions

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Scientists Stumped Why Sawfish Are Behaving Bizarrely And Dying In FloridaExperts at the FWC are carrying our necropsies of the impacted sawfish to understand the problem and prevent further deaths.

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Scientists Stumped Why Sawfish Are Behaving Bizarrely And Dying In FloridaExperts at the FWC are carrying our necropsies of the impacted sawfish to understand the problem and prevent further deaths.
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Scientists Stumped Why Sawfish Are Behaving Bizarrely And Dying In Florida

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Strange Giant Viruses Found Lurking On Greenland Ice SheetGreenland ice sheet black algae

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Strange Giant Viruses Found Lurking On Greenland Ice SheetGreenland ice sheet black algae
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Strange Giant Viruses Found Lurking On Greenland Ice Sheet

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