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The Celtic Explorer research vessel sailing through the ocean

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Take a 360-degree virtual tour of a scientific research vessel

Step into the wet lab, peek inside the chief scientist’s cabin and commandeer the bridge in a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse of Ireland's Celtic Explorer

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There's less plastic in the oceans than there should be

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Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics

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Narwhal

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Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

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Damselfish on coral

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Fish boost photosynthesis by wafting water around corals

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Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change

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Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change

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Pregnant rays tangled in trawler nets have small, sickly babies

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Pregnant rays tangled in trawler nets have small, sickly babies

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Plastic pollution on beach

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Remote Pacific island found buried under tonnes of plastic waste

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A dusky rabbitfish

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Tiny invasive sea creatures hitch a ride in rabbitfish guts

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lionfish

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Hear the roar of the lionfish recorded for the first time

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Icy landscape

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Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep

A freshwater layer up to 2 kilometres deep floated on our planet’s oceans for some 50,000 years after the end of an extreme ice age

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Captive breeding is a final roll of the dice for the vaquita

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