The study underscores the crucial role of microbes in maintaining coral reef health, akin to the human gut microbiome. Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, ...

Electric utilities nationwide face the challenges of climate change and natural ecosystem disturbances. Case in point: About 10,000 thunderstorms occur each year in the United States, according to the ...

From tropical rainforests to coral reefs, some of Earth’s most diverse ecosystems are also the most stable. This staggering diversity stands in opposition to ecological theory, which for decades has ...

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

Every morning, I rely upon the rising of the sun to slowly bring me back to consciousness. Every night, I am eventually coaxed back to bed with the darkening of the night sky. I move through the day — ...

A coral plagued wtih stony coral tissue loss disease on St. John, USVI. This highly lethal and fast spreading disease can be found among reefs in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Woods Hole, Mass– The ...