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Ecologically- and economically-rich coral reefs occur in very specific places on our planet.
New species finds include a succulent plant, worms and crustaceans near a hydrothermal vent and desert bees.
How can we effectively communicate the urgency around plastic pollution in the ocean to effect change?
The Academy's Matt Lewin has developed a snakebite treatment that might save tens of thousands of lives!
Invasive lionfish are spreading throughout the Caribbean and farther south—and scientists are trying to keep up.
How will climate change affect different species? Will organisms be able to adapt quickly enough to survive in a rapidly changing environment?
Can scientific tools help us improve our use and sharing of California with large mammals like mountain lions?
The Academy's Stan Blum works in Biodiversity Informatics-- he documents what lives where.
How does ocean acidification affect oysters? How do oysters affect acidification?
Healthy ecosystems often rely on secret agents. Not spies, but organisms that might not seem to have an obvious connection to a natural community.
In ecosystems, every organism plays a part. From the smallest microbe to the fiercest predator to the talle...
Academy researchers Terry Gosliner and Luiz Rocha head to the Middle East to look for marine life.