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How to Design Marine Protected Areas That Keep Pace With Climate Change

An international team has developed the first comprehensive framework for designing networks of marine protected areas that can help vulnerable species survive as climate change drives habitat loss.

WHIRLS: Small Ocean Swirls With Large Impacts on Climate and Marine Life

During the summer of 2022, the Indus River in Pakistan overflowed its banks and swept through the homes of between 30-40 million people.

Rider on the Storm: Shearwater Seabird Catches an 11 Hour Ride Over 1,000 Miles in a Typhoon

New research from Japan published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecology suggests that increasingly severe weather driven by climate change may push oceangoing seabirds to their limits.

The Arctic’s Past Provides a Glimpse Into the Future

What are the global impacts of an ice-free Arctic?

Research Advances Toward Goal of Net Zero Carbon Emissions

Scientists may be on the verge of taking a big step closer to the net-zero carbon emissions goal, thanks to University of Houston research into algae.