In 1890, Akeley made a diorama of a muskrat habitat, complete with a background mural. This was the world's first museum habitat diorama and the beginning of the “Milwaukee Style,” the revolutionary ...

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

Isotope evidence from fossil otoliths shows Caribbean reef food chains have shrunk by up to 70%, signaling a major loss of ...

Caribbean coral reefs are running on shorter food chains than they did 7,000 years ago. A new study published in Nature finds that modern reef ecosystems have lost up to 60–70 percent of their food ...

Coral reefs look tough. They build massive limestone structures that can stretch for miles and last for thousands of years. But inside those bright underwater cities, something fragile is happening. A ...

Ancient Caribbean reefs functioned in ways modern ecosystems no longer do, according to a new study. Food chains that once supported a complex web of predators and prey have compressed by up to 70%, ...

With powerful nations rolling back climate protections and temperatures soaring ever closer to dangerous thresholds, it's hard not to feel worried about the state of the planet. As green journalists, ...

A new analysis published in the journal Nature highlights the dimensions of modern coral reef degradation, according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Boston College's ...

Mid-Career Grants are designed to support faculty members at a pivotal stage in their careers, allowing them to dedicate the time necessary to develop new research directions. “This program is really ...