The city of Venice and its surrounding lagoon are irreversibly at the mercy of climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to submerge the island in the coming decades, as the system of flood barriers ...

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Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...

Blue Crab on Beach of Florida© Katarina_G/Shutterstock.com A crab’s exoskeleton protects it like armor and gives the animal structural support. Without the process of molting, crabs and other ...