Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute documented 337 manatee carcasses in state waters in 2008. The low number of red tide-related mortalities last year helped the number of documented manatee deaths...

Economists use leading indicators — the drivers of economic performance – to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of...

A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center to believe they have identified a wintering ground and potentially a...

What do mutant catfish, Robbie Williams, Chinese fish urinals, a lucky lizard and topless fishing all have in common? They all made the list of the weirdest underwater stories from 2008. The year's weird underwater news proved once again that...

Claims that coastal tree barriers can halt the might of a tsunami are false and dangerous, a team of international marine scientists said today. There are many reasons for preserving the world's dwindling stocks of mangroves, but protecting people from tsunamis...

Animal Planet\'s WHALE WARS stormed audiences on its second voyage delivering more than 1.1 million viewers (1.153M P2+), the network\'s best performing Friday primetime telecast in five years. The momentum for the series grew in its second week garnering...

Hovering in a tiny submarine 1.4 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist felt as if he were in a time machine, witnessing the ancient past, or a scientist’s fantasy future. Just inches away, an undersea...

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org.cn) has announced that Taobao (www.taobao.com.cn), China's largest shopping website, will soon halt the sale of shark fin products on the site. Taobao.com has told its 400 million online members that...

The science case for a change in the definition of seawater was first agreed to in 2006 when the international guiding body, the Scientific Committee on Oceans Research (SCOR) established a working group, chaired by Dr Trevor McDougall, of CSIRO's...

Bell-bottoms… Designer jeans… Disco… Big hair… Gas shortages. Some icons of the 1970s are emblazoned in the memories of those old enough to remember. A few styles, to the dismay of many, have come back in vogue—oil-related crises among them. Broad...

Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth\'s surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers. \"Sulfur caves are a...

Potentially widespread and severe coral bleaching is predicted this winter, which could cause immense damage to some of the world\'s most important marine environments including the Coral Triangle of SE Asia and the Western Pacific, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)...

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW-www.ifaw.org.cn) congratulates Taobao (www.taobo.com.cn), China\'s largest shopping website for its ban on the sale of shark fin products on the site. Taobao.com announced to its 400 million online members that all shark fin products...

Bonnier Corporation, publisher of Sport Diver, today announced the purchase of Scuba Diving magazine from F+W Media Inc. The acquisition positions Bonnier as the dominant media company in the dive industry and expands its presence as the pre-eminent enthusiast sports...

Bruce Yates is an investment manager by day, but spends his spare time as an avid nature photographer. Originally from Boise, Idaho, he settled in Bellevue, WA, where he founded the investment firm Appropriate Balance Financial Services, Inc. 24 years...

On Tuesday 16th December Liberal Democratic MP for Lewes \'Norman Baker\' and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South \'Robert Flello\' joined campaigners at 10 Downing Street calling for an immediate and comprehensive ban on the deliberate killing of all seals in...

An animal welfare problem of major proportions has been uncovered in a new report by WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. The report, Shrouded by the sea, reveals the shocking truth behind the entanglement of whales, dolphins and porpoises in...

Biologists face the major challenge of understanding genetic and environmental risk factors underlying human diseases. Surprisingly, animal species in the wild have sometimes acquired the characteristics of a human disease through evolution. Yet, the ‘disease’ trait is precisely what allows...

First State Bank of the Florida Keys purchased the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg at auction Wednesday, making it possible for the 524-foot decommissioned Air Force missile tracking vessel to be scuttled as an artificial reef off the Florida Keys. Key West...

Voices from the Fisheries, an archive of oral histories of recreational and commercial fishermen and the communities and families that rely on them, documents the human experience with the nation's coastal, marine and Great Lakes environments and living marine resources. Social...