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USA marine biologist Carly Kenkel led a team to study the endangered, near-shore mountainous star coral under the Caribbean Sea. The team wanted to understand the coral’s resistance to warmer ...

When climate scientists look to the future to determine what the effects of climate change may be, they use computer models to simulate potential outcomes such as how precipitation will change in a ...