Fifteen years after the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill poured an estimated 134 million gallons of oil into the marine environment, vital long-term monitoring work involving University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers continues to chart the slow path to recovery for the region’s deep-sea coral communities, providing critical information to guide their restoration. 

Rebecca Stup ’23, MS ’26, is a master’s student in the lab of Antonio DiTommaso, a weed ecologist and associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). 

Temperate rainforests are among the rarest habitats on Earth, supporting unique biodiversity and providing vital benefits from climate regulation and natural flood management to supporting human wellbeing.

The Greater Kruger region in South Africa is a vast, interconnected landscape of forests, savannas, and grasslands that includes Kruger National Park and several private and community nature reserves near the park. 

Bruin Wilson Sherman is blending ecology, social science and social media data to prepare Southern California communities for a wilder future.

An international team of scientists and students, led by the Arctic University of Norway, has announced a remarkable discovery of a venting system on the seafloor of the Arctic. 

For the first time, scientists have calculated a detailed “energetic budget” for Hawaiʻi‘s short-finned pilot whales, revealing what it takes to power their extreme, 800-meter (2,600-feet) dives for food.

The climate-driven spread of beaver ponds in Alaska’s Arctic accelerates the effects of a warming environment by causing pond-adjacent permafrost to thaw and by increasing the amount of liquid water present during winter.

San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year and average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985.

Deep-sea mining poses significant risks for a vital, hidden part of the ocean. That’s the message from a new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study, the first to truly look at the impact of mining waste.