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marine biology

Video: Why you should be more worried about kelp

By Erik English | Climate Change

The underwater Amazon: Kelp forests are crucial to the fight against climate change. Here’s how they could be saved.

By Paul Tullis | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

Patagonian paradise lost? The environmental hazards of farming fish in a warming world

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

An photograph of microscopic ocean plants, or phytoplankton

Beware the Blob! Ocean heat waves threaten microbes that help counter global warming

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Woods Hole inlet with boats

We knocked the genes out of a zebrafish—and other tales from CRISPR summer school

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, Personal Essay, Special Topics, Synthetic biology