Andia Chaves-Fonnegra, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, has been awarded a five-year, $720,446 grant from the United States EPA to support a pioneering project aimed at restoring sponge populations in Florida Bay through a genetics-based approach.

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him.

As wildfires grow larger and more frequent across the West, researchers from Colorado, Utah, and California are digging into how smoke affects the air—and our health.

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its carbon. 

Improving biodiversity and maintaining yields at the same time? For many, this sounds like a contradiction in terms. 

“Climate change has already caused more than 12,000 species to shift their homes across land, freshwater and the sea,” says the University of Adelaide’s Dr Chloe Hayes, who has published a study on the new approach.

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases.

Illinois once harbored more than 8 million acres of wetlands. By the 1980s, all but 1.2 million wetland acres had been lost, filled in for development or drained to make way for agriculture.

Most Californians are familiar with earthquakes. But researchers say the state faces an overlooked threat: “supershear” earthquakes that move so fast they outrun their own seismic waves.

In the U.S., more than one third of food goes to waste. As such, more food ends up in landfills than any other material.