Jul 19 2010
Lake Superior May Hit Record Temperature
The world's largest lake is on course to be warmer than ever this summer due to low ice cover last winter.
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Jul 12 2010
Deepwater Shark Diets Include Other Sharks
These sharks' diets had long been a mystery, but DNA sequencing is shedding light on how they survive in their deepwater world.
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Jun 29 2010
Smallest Whale Population Identified
The world's smallest whale population is the North Pacific right whale, new surveys show, with only 30 whales alive today.
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Jun 21 2010
Cajun Cuisine at Risk as Oil’s Effects Spread
The BP oil spill not only threatens Gulf seafood, but also the cultures and cuisines that depend on it.
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Jun 02 2010
Oil Spill Threatens Gulf Seafood
Seafood lovers can take comfort in the fact that oil has yet to have a major impact on catches in the Gulf -- at least for now.
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Jun 01 2010
Gulf Oil Spill Not the Biggest Ever
Forty-two days into the worst oil spill in U.S. history, somewhere between 500,000 and 780,000 barrels of oil, possibly more, have contaminated the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.The biggest one happened in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War when Iraqi forces dumped an estimated 6-8 million barrels of oil from tankers and...
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May 17 2010
Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear by 2050
Without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, our oceans could essentially become barren deserts.
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May 07 2010
‘Dome’ Lowered Into Sea to Cap Oil Leak
The 100-ton dome is designed to funnel leaking oil from the Gulf up to a containment vessel for reprocessing.
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Apr 16 2010
Dolphin Births Up Since Hurricane Katrina
A drop in boat traffic and fishing may have contributed to a boost in dolphin births in the Mississippi Sound.
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Apr 16 2010
Dolphin Births Up Since Hurricane Katrina
A drop in boat traffic and fishing may have contributed to a boost in dolphin births in the Mississippi Sound.
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