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Leslie-Ann McGee will serve as the board’s Vice President of Industry, Research, and Technology, while Jacquelyn Veatch will ...

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Researchers find fluffy anemones spreading south via shipwrecks, revealing how artificial reefs and ocean currents connect marine habitats ...

Woods Hole, MA – A new study published today in Global Change Biology provides valuable new data that highlights how species extinction risk is accelerating due to rapid climate change and an increase ...

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The Seafood Engine will initially receive an award of $15 million over two years, with the potential to grow up to $160 million over ten years as it works to build an internationally competitive ...

Why is the ocean blue? People have wondered this for hundreds of years. One idea is that it reflects the sky. And it does-on the surface. From the coast, it may appear a deep blue on a sunny day. Or ...

A trip to the ocean means sun, wind, and waves. These waves crash on the beach, waking you in the morning and lulling you to sleep at night. Surfers ride them. Children play in them. Swimmers dive ...

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It looked like someone spray foamed the farm. When Bill Doyle arrived at his four-acre oyster farming site off the coast of Plymouth, Massachusetts for the morning tide, he felt a pit in his stomach.