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The Our Ocean World series explores how a healthy ocean is critical to our survival, how we impact the ocean, how the ocean affects our daily lives, how we can sustain the ocean ecosystem for future generations, and more.

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• Phillip Bettoli answers:
  Why are fewer female paddlefish producing offspring?
• Paty Matrai answers:
  What do microscopic ocean organisms have to do with cloud formation?
• Leonard Zon answers:
  Why are scientists using zebrafish to study human disease?
• Daniel Schlenk answers:
  What health-related toxins are ending up in the world's waterways and being flushed out to sea?
• Science Nation answers:
  How do young sea turtles navigate around the ocean?
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