A molecular DNA study was recently conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey to compare the genetics of Belize's Antillean manatees to Florida manatees showed the that the two were in fact...
Hanifaru Bay in the Maldives has been quietly becoming a hot spot for underwater photographers over the last year or so. Thomas Peschak recently shot an assignment for National Geographic on the...
A new study by researchers from UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) sheds light on how threats to the world's endangered coral reef ecosystems can be...
WCS researchers have discovered a stronghold for one of the worlds rarest freshwater dolphins, the Irrawaddy, deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh. The scientists counted nearly 6,000 of...
Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic...
A recent report published in Science magazine, entitled 'A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems', has shown that not only are more than 40 per cent of the world's waters 'heavily...
