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Underwater science is usually rather dull. Hours are spent collecting data, data that's not particularly interesting in and of itself, data that becomes interesting only when conjoined with similar data from other sites and other times. The media stars of underwater science like Sylvia Earle and Bob Ballard reach out from the pages of a glossy book or beckon from a tightly edited video… Continue

An international team of scientists has identified a nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, West Africa as the world's largest. The research, published i… Continue

ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2009) — The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Lat… Continue

ScienceDaily -- New diseases affect human survival and food security, especially as population density climbs. Leaf-cutting ants, one of a few groups of social insects t… Continue

Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) female in Elderberry Bush (Sambucus nigra) Switzerland

ScienceDaily (June 8, 2009) — Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to… Continue

For the very first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales have been positively identified. Acoustic experts confirmed that the voice of a sing… Continue

I recently heard that an environmental group is coating the canada geese eggs with oil to prevent them from hatching. I do have a problem with that. Seems like the geese eat the grass they plant and they don't want them around, so they are preventing the eggs from hatching. I'd like to hear some comments about this.