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Measles outbreaks around the country this year focused public attention on the risks of non-vaccination. In many places, anti-vaccine sentiment based on…

A U.N. special report on the impacts of climate change on the ocean sparked dire headlines such as UN report on world’ oceans is damning: We’re all in big…

Today's forecast included clouds, winds, temperatures. Nothing about ticks, or jellyfish, or whales. Nick Record, a senior research scientist at Bigelow…

Congress passed a bipartisan budget deal that covers two years, a remarkable feat considering the history of short-term budget resolutions. Then,…

Hurricane Sandy. It’s been called Frankenstorm and it’s causing flashbacks to the Perfect Storm of 1991, when a Halloween Nor’Easter absorbed Hurricane…

You've no doubt heard of the butterfly effect. Well, Gareth Lawson of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has his own version: the sea butterfly…

I've read my fair share of science books and field blogs and talked to more than a few scientists. In most cases, I hear their stories and think "Cool! I…

Author Bill Sargent takes the long view in his new book "Beach Wars: 10,000 Years on a Barrier Beach."In March of 2012, crews began demolishing five homes…

Freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon are highly vulnerable to environmental degradation. On Living Lab, Heather Goldstone talks with Dr. Leandro Castello…

Late Friday night, President Obama signed an order calling for $85 billion in federal budget cuts collectively known as sequestration. There’s been a lot…