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  • Kalyn Green, resident of Durango, stands on the edge of the Animas River.

    Are we part of nature, or separate from it? How you answer matters.


    If you see humans as part of the natural world, you’re more likely to support stewardship of the environment, according to a new study by Northeastern psychology and environmental science researchers.

    • by Eva Botkin-Kowacki   April 7, 2022
  • silhouettes of two firefighters standing in front of massive wilfdire

    Is wildfire soot leaving a mark on the world’s oceans?


    When clouds of smoke and ash billow out over the ocean, stretching away from the wildfires that are their source, they might not just affect the air quality, according to research by Aron Stubbins, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern.

    • by Eva Botkin-Kowacki   September 17, 2021
  • school of amberjack fish

    To safeguard key coastal ecosystems, this scientist starts by talking to the local anglers


    “Fishermen spend the bulk of their year, if not every day, on the water and the vast majority of scientists only get to spend a small number of days on the water,” says Steven Scyphers, assistant professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern. “But we’re both trying to understand the same system.”

    • by Halle Marchese - contributor   September 13, 2021
  • mussel bed

    If we don’t halt climate change, the world’s oceans may never be the same.


    As much as 95% of the climates in the surface ocean that exist today could completely disappear within 80 years—but it’s not too late to change, according to new research led by Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern.

    • by Eva Botkin-Kowacki   August 26, 2021
  • Northeastern University marine science and public policy professor Brian Helmuth and lab technician Sahana Simonetti, a recent marine biology graduate, conduct research on the shores of the Nahant campus. Helmuth’s battery powered robotic mussels provide greater insight into the thermal stresses being placed on various organisms by climate change. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

    When a heat wave comes, this scientist takes a shellfish’s perspective


    What is it like to be a shellfish in a heat wave? Marine scientist Brian Helmuth takes a mussel’s-eye-view of climate change in his coastal research.

    • by Eva Botkin-Kowacki   July 23, 2021
  • Plastics are a pervasive source of pollution. And they might also be significantly altering the Earth’s carbon cycle and our ability to monitor it, according to research by Northeastern’s Aron Stubbins. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

    Our plastic pollution problem may have more significant consequences than we think


    Plastics are a pervasive source of pollution. And they might also be significantly altering the Earth’s carbon cycle and our ability to monitor it, according to research by Northeastern’s Aron Stubbins.

    • by Eva Botkin-Kowacki   July 6, 2021
  • Associate Professor Rebeca Rosengaus studies social insect behavior and researches how insects control and contain pathogen outbreaks in their own colonies.

    For ideas about fighting pandemics, look to termites and ants


    Social insects like termites and ants have evolved many methods to combat disease. What can we learn from them in fighting human pandemics? A lot, says Rebeca Rosengaus, an associate professor and behavioral ecologist at Northeastern.

    • by Eva Botkin-Kowacki   May 28, 2021
  • NAHANT, Mass. Northeastern students Jaxon Derow and Sahana Simonetti gather mussels for a research project at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center.

    Northeastern’s award-winning coastal research campus in Massachusetts faces public vote


    Nahant residents on Saturday will vote on whether to seize part of the property where Northeastern’s Marine Science Center conducts research to improve the sustainability of coastal communities facing the effects of climate change.

    • by Peter Ramjug   May 13, 2021
  • Photo of a shipworm

    Unlike humans, shipworms have no problem with bacteria getting in their cells. Why?


    There’s a fine line between helpful bacteria and harmful bacteria, says Dan Distel, who directs the Ocean Genome Legacy Center. Studying the helpful kind in shipworms may help researchers understand dangerous infections in humans.

    • by Laura Castañón   August 10, 2020
  • The underwater research station will allow scientists and engineers to live, work, and conduct long-term experiments under the sea. Rendering by Yves Béhar, courtesy of Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center.

    They’re planning to build a new space station… at the bottom of the ocean


    The underwater research center is the brainchild of Fabian Cousteau, a renowned aquanaut and grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Northeastern is helping to make it a reality.

    • by Laura Castañón   July 22, 2020
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