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New climate-based tool predicts coral bleaching months in advance, offering critical lead time for reef protection

Researchers demonstrate that coral bleaching on the Caribbean island of Curaçao occurs when three major climate patterns

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The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is supporting a two-year study to quantify carbon storage in both natural and restored eelgrass meadows in  coastal waters. ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
New research suggests basking sharks actively feed during
long
-
distance migrations
rather than relying solely on stored energy reserves, as previously assumed for many migratory
sharks. (Photo by Amy Kukulya, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Evii Tong, a WHOI research assistant, patches a sampled
Orbicella faveolata
colony. (Photo by Mariya Galochkina, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Titanic sinking with mummy's tomb
wave in the ocean
(Photo by Paul Caiger, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Alvin sphere near redfield
Oleander through two rocks
Alvin and the swordfish
whoi dock aerial
An ocean bottom seismometer being deployed by the Ocean Bottom Scismic Instrument Center during a research expedition to the Gofar transform fault in the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Hannah Brewer, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
The entrance to Room 71. (Photo by Daniel Hentz, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
CUREE autonomous underwater vehicle
A Mediterranean storm petrels incubates its eggs deep in a dark cave by the sea in Sardinia, Italy. (Photo by A. Benvenuti)
With fishing efforts being directed progressively deeper, catches shifted heavily toward midwater species like pomfrets and opahs. (©NOAA Fisheries)
Chinstrap penguins on an iceberg
Blue Sharks
Allan Hills, Antarctica
(© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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(Photos by ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
The same gentle wind that would create small ripples on a lake in Earth (right) would make large waves on Saturn’s largest moon Titan (left). In these renderings, the marker is measured in meters. (Courtesy of Taylor Perron, Una Schneck, et al)
spilhause projection
Ponant’s luxury icebreaker <em>Le Commandant Charcot</em> enables scientists to access remote regions of Antarctica while hosting passengers (Photo by Stephanie Tate)
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