Octopuses carry coconut shells as instant shelter
Can invertebrates use tools? Scientists spy octopuses "tiptoeing" across the ocean floor carrying coconut shells for protection or disguise.

Science Comes To Life for Middle School Students
How fish survive, where oil spills are, and what exactly is going on in our oceans were just some of the things some local middle schoolers got the chance to learn this week at NOAA science camp.

The Important Little Life of Dylan Diatom
University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab reaches out to kids with freewheelin' 'Dylan Diatom' in the arctic animation

Around the Americas expedition
The Around the Americas Mission: "Our mission is to build awareness throughout the Americas of increasing threats to our fragile ocean environment and to mobilize North and South Americans to take action to improve the health of our oceans."

Tribe reintroduces sockeye to Lake Cle Elum
For the first time in more than 100 years, Lake Cle Elum's sandy shorelines and streams will erupt in crimson patches late this summer as sockeye salmon turn from silver to red in preparation for spawning.