Latest Stories

• Study reveals opportunity to improve blue carbon measurements in coastal wetlands - URI professor co-leads research to re-examine how stored carbon is measured
• Free screening of new documentary spotlights Belizean women leading the fight to save a World Heritage reef - ‘Wealth Untold’ follows multigenerational network of women scientists, artists, and community leaders working to protect the Western Hemisphere's longest barrier reef.
• GSO students support offshore fisheries research at Rhode Island wind sites - Partnering with local fisherman to collect data on commercially important American Lobster and Jonah Crab
• Building climate resilience ‘From the Ground Up’: expert lecture set for GSO - Jainey Bavishi will explore how local leadership and civic collaboration are reshaping climate action at Fish Lecture.

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• Rhode Island Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Business Course Covers Industry from ‘Soup to Nuts’ - December 4, 2025 - ecoRI News
• North Allegheny graduate travels to Hawaii as part of effort to better predict severity, timing of volcanic eruptions - December 4, 2025 - TribLive
• URI taps geothermal energy for climate control for new Bay Campus labs - December 4, 2025 - The Providence Journal
• URI Researchers Find Smaller Amounts of Microplastics in Southern Narragansett Bay - November 24, 2025 - ecoRI News
• EPA Proposing New Pesticide on Crops Raises Alarm - November 14, 2025 - Newsweek

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