Johanna L'Heureux's study on microbes seeks to answer questions about climate change and rising sea levels as part of her national Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship, under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Over the past year she has set up an experimental station at the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve “right smack dab in the middle between Myrtle Beach and Charleston” in South Carolina.

Samuel Muñoz searches for answers about what future warming climates in an unusual place- ancient mud layers.

“We see how much the world is changing,” Northeastern student and Rhodes Scholar Kritika Singh told an audience of students, researchers, clinicians, and industry experts on Friday. “People, planet, and technology need to change along with it in order to have a healthier and safer world.”

Northeastern students are surveying a coral reef off the coast of Panama for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease, which threatens twenty species that comprise the heart of the Caribbean’s coral reefs.

Aron Stubbins, an associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern, teamed up with a group of researchers who tested the  long-established idea that rivers eventually transport black carbon into the ocean.

The tanks at the Sai Kung fish market in Hong Kong were brimming with unusual creatures. Buyers chose from live mantis shrimp, sea snails, lobsters, clams, giant groupers, and arrays of other fish and had them cooked on the spot. There was every kind of seafood under the sun. And from all appearances, many of […]

A new United Nations report warns that the oceans have sponged up about a quarter of the total atmospheric carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels since the 1980s, changing the chemistry of the ocean at different depths and creating dangerously acidic and oxygen-depleted conditions for marine life.

Climate change is increasing the probability of hurricanes like Dorian, while development is destroying natural protective barriers like mangrove trees. So what can we do about it? Professor Steven Scyphers lends his expertise.

The Amazon rainforest is on fire. Aron Stubbins, professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern, explains why that's a global problem.

Communities that have seen little rain are getting hit by historic flooding along the Arkansas River thanks to downpours upstream.

Associate Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences Randall Hughes and her lab have a novel approach for determining how marine life populations will react to climate change.

The High School Marine Science Symposium, co-hosted by Northeastern’s Marine Science Center and the National Marine Educators Association, featured workshops and activities led by representatives of 25 ocean-oriented groups around New England.

A recent paper co-authored by MSC researcher Francis Choi and Professor Brian Helmuth is the result of an ongoing collaboration with colleagues in China, and explores the combined impacts of coastal armoring, warming temperatures, and shifts in ocean currents on the distribution of coastal invertebrates.

The Climate Change, Crisis, and Creativity Conference brought together a variety stakeholders to discuss threats facing Northeastern and the greater community, and opportunities for resilience, in the face of climate change.