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...
The US Navy's plan to detect mines and other underwater objects by their electrical fields - in the same way as sharks and rays find prey - has moved closer to reality.
Elasmobranch fish (rays,...
The amount of rubbish being washed up on Queensland beaches is increasing, and causing "appalling" deaths among ocean wildlife.
It is particularly evident on North Stradbroke Island in...
The pollution of the world's oceans is extracting a price from ocean life and human life -- scientists say a dangerous "toxic slime" is rising up from the depths.
One such symptom is a...
Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime,' as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people...
Miles of unblemished coral reefs have been turned to slime-covered rubble because of rising sea temperatures caused by global warming.
A study into the extensive bleaching of the Seychelles...
