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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…

Humans have been watching clouds since the dawn of time. Still, clouds remain one of the most poorly understood aspects of climate and, thus, climate…

New research points to some of the subtle ways climate change can affect daily (or not-so-daily, as the case may be) life.Flying somewhere this long…

Both the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Children's School of Science are celebrating major anniversaries this year - MBL's 125th and the School of…

After last week's announcement that scientists had detected gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, everybody is listening…

Tiny, thin-shelled oysters; crumbling coral reefs; fish unable to make sense of odors; decimated plankton populations. Those are some of the nightmare…

Nature versus nurture: it’s one of the oldest debates out there. How much of our personality are we born with, and how much develops in response to our…

In September, Living Lab spoke with Standing Rock Sioux tribe member Jennifer Weston about the tribe’s protest of the construction the Dakota Access oil…

Here's something you don't see everyday: two thirds of a legislative body not only supporting a bill, but actually co-sponsoring it. One hundred…