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Congressional Republicans have started investigating climate scientists whose hacked emails suggest they tried to squelch dissenting views about global warming.

Abstract The evolution of marine microbes over billions of years predicts that the composition of microbial communities should be much greater than the published estimates of a few thousand distinct kinds of microbes per liter of seawater.

A 19-year-old boater was rescued six miles east of Nantucket yesterday evening by the Coast Guard.

The president of the Natural Science Collections Alliance, William Y. Brown, will be the next president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center, an independent, nonprofit institute focused on environmental science, education, and public policy.

Martha's Vineyard Savings Bank is venturing off the island, and leaving its name behind.

Thomas D. Brown Real Estate Extensive listings of homes for sale throughout the lower and outer Cape Cod area.

Responding to the general warming of the northwest Atlantic Ocean over the last 40 years, a significant number of fish stocks have shifted to the north and deeper in an apparent effort to find optimal water temperature conditions, a study by NOAA researchers shows.

For the most part, in October the Steamship Authority carried fewer passengers, autos and trucks when compared with the same period last year.

Certain sea creatures can regrow lost limbs and organs, but does that mean humans might one day be able to do the same? The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Marine Biological Laboratory $802,500 in federal stimulus money partly to recruit and hire two specialists in regenerative biology to work on that question, MBL director Gary ...

This undated photo released by Census of Marine Life and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows a transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, creeping forward on its many tentacles at about 2 cm per minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth at 2,750 meters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

The supercomputer opened Friday at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization.

The university faces numerous obstacles in potentially seeking to acquire an unaccredited institution, Southern New England School of Law.

NASAa s fourth space-rated shuttle, OV-104 a oeAtlantis,a was named after the two-masted boat that served as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966.

The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole was founded back in 1888, and still a whopping 121 years later the institution continues to thrive at the cutting-edge of biological research.

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker will perform Sunday night as part of the Woods Hole Folk Music Society's concert series.

Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.

Posted By Newperson 3 hours, 34 minutes ago in Science & Technology With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.An orange tube fixed to a metal frame breaks the surface as the motorized winch stops groaning.

A new study by fisheries scientists in Woods Hole shows that about half of the 36 fish stocks they surveyed had shifted north or east toward cooler waters over the past 40 years, possibly in response to rising water temperatures due to global warming.

We agree: Pollution is not quaint. Therefore, your editorial conclusions about the Dennis cottage colony should be based upon facts.

The National Marine Life Center's new hospital facility received a big boost from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole over the past few weeks, officials from the marine animal hospital said this week.