For 19 Columbia graduate students this past July, it was their classroom. Earlier this year, the M.S. in Sustainability ...

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Tucked in the western Pacific Ocean is a country made up of more than 600 islands scattered across an expanse of ocean five ...

Picture this: you wake up in one corner of a country, explore its entire breadth during lunch, and still have time for sunset ...

A 2023 marine heat wave laid waste to elkhorn and staghorn coral, which have thrived for centuries off Florida’s coast. Elkhorn and staghorn coral have dominated the Caribbean’s coral reef systems for ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...

A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida's coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth and worst mass bleaching event in the Caribbean. Temperatures soared for ...

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Carly D. Kenkel has received funding from NSF, NOAA, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the Mary Gard ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carly D. Kenkel, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Jenna Dilworth, ...