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Ocean Life Earth

Deep-sea mining waste threatens life and food webs in  ocean’s dim “twilight zone”

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C-MORE Hale marks 15 years of world-class ocean science

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Exploring Earth, Ocean, Space: Public invited to graduate student research symposium

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Ocean Climate Earth

New project to bolster leeward O‘ahu climate resilience

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Ocean Life Earth

Traditional Okinawan songs rich with indigenous knowledge of climate and geology 

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