In one of the most comprehensive global studies of marine reserves, a team of natural and social scientists from the University of Rhode Island and other…
The earthquake, some 300-500 times more powerful than the magnitude 7.0 quake in Haiti Jan. 12, ruptured at the boundary between the Nazca and South American…
January temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.72 C (about 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for January.Northern Hemisphere: +0.84 C…
Reef ecosystems were able to persist through massive environmental changes imposed by sharply falling sea levels during previous ice ages, an international…
“Silk from caddisfly larvae – known to western fly fishermen as 'rock rollers' – may be useful some day as a medical bioadhesive for sticking to wet tissues,”…
A three-year field program now underway is measuring carbon distributions and primary productivity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to help scientists worldwide…