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/PRNewswire/ -- Lab-Aids, the Long Island-based publisher and manufacturer of hands-on, evidence-based science programs is now the exclusive provider of middle...

Maui Nui Marine Resource Council will host the December edition of its “Know Your Ocean Speaker Series” featuring Alika Garcia and Blake Nowack of Kuleana Coral Restoration, on Dec. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sphere Theater at the Maui Ocean Center.

The Our Valley Our Future group has two new board members. The addition of Kim Hatfield of Catholic Charities and Tracy Bowerman of the Upper Columbia Salmon

In early June of this year, surrounded by the gorgeous Sierra Mountains, ten local 9th-12th graders from Ghidotti, Bitney Prep, SAEL, Colfax, and Nevada Union got a chance to conduct hands-on field work and meadow…

They found that institutions from several lower-middle- and upper-middle-income countries with abundant coral reefs produced less research than institutions based in high-income countries with fewer or in some cases no reefs. They also found that host-nation scientists (scientists from the nations where field research was conducted) were not included in authorship on studies almost twice as often when those studies were conducted in lower-income countries. "Unfortunately, for decades, it was th...

By analyzing 50 years worth of coral reef biodiversity studies, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on February 22 have quantified the practice of "parachute science," which happens when international scientists, typically from higher-income countries, conduct field studies in another, typically lower-income country, without engaging with local researchers. They found that institutions from several lower-middle- and upper-middle-income countries with abundant coral reefs produ...