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STORMS IN PARADISE

National Geographic correspondent John Bowermaster relates his travels around the world for the Oceans 8 project, and explores the gravest threats to the ocean.

BALANCING ACCOUNTS

The ocean is our global savings account and we're only making withdrawals, argues National Geographic Explorer Enric Sala. He shows how we can replenish our account through no-take marine reserves, with many ecological and economic benefits.

OCEANS 10

In a Link TV interview, ocean explorer and researcher extraordinaire Dr. Sylvia Earle explains why what we do in the next decade is critical to saving the ocean and ourselves.

PLAYING SMARTER

How good marine spatial planning resolved conflicts between a wind farming operation in British Columbia and the local crab fishermen.

COURAGE OF THE PENGUIN

What happens when a great white shark, that eats penguins like popcorn, and a small African penguin have an encounter off Dyer Island in South Africa?

INVADING FLOTILLA

This simulation produced by the International Pacific Research Center projects the path of Japan’s tsunami debris that is already landing on the U.S. west coast. From the DO Collaborative for Marine Debris

WHALE SHARK ISLAND

Filmmaker Kip Evans of Wild Blue Studios captures extraordinary footage of the rare whale sharks near Isla Hola, off the Yucatan peninsula. Narrated by Sylvia Earle.

WHAT A TUNA IS WORTH

Jean-Michel Cousteau of Ocean Futures Society exposes a rare glimpse inside the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, where endangered Blue Fin Tuna are carved up and sold for prices up to $100,000 US.