...turns out looks do matter. "You can see that the surface is really dark," said Rocha, a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory. In fact, the ground is mostly coal-mine black rather than the vibrant green that blanketed the land before...

...never saw a drought. In the last 10 years, there have been three," said Deegan, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. She recalls the last drought as "just catastrophic" for fish. Bret-Harte worries...