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Looking to better understand one of the most feared marine animals, The Shark Trust designated July 14 as Shark Awareness Day. It's also the day a UMass Amherst biologist released to the public several interactive 3D models of shark species.

Biologist Roger Payne, creator of the iconic album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" explains how the record came to be.

“Some phytoplankton will do better than others, which has implications for food webs,” said Stephanie Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in marine microbial ecology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In a major move that involves banning commercial fishing, President Joe Biden took executive action to restore protections in the Northeast Canyons and…

Skimming — or skipping — stones (poetically called "jumping frogs" in Africa; "waddling ducks" in Hungary or "bouncing fish" in Norway) has a long and…

Some Nantucket residents and a prominent conservative lawyer are suing the federal government over its approval of the offshore wind farm Vineyard Wind....

With wildfires and record heat and hurricanes, weather events in 2021 have led many to ask, “Is this climate change?” MIT professor Kerry Emanuel answers questions about how climate change is impacting our day-to-day weather.

A new grant provided to UMass Amherst seeks to assist people of color and low-income students get jobs in the offshore wind industry.UMass launched its…

Researchers at UMass Amherst say they've solved at least one mystery about a destructive saltwater mollusk known as the shipworm.The mollusk has been…

Our New England landscape was shaped over 10,000 years ago by glaciers that deposited sediments. On sunny summer days, people flock to relax on some of…