By David Shiffman, Arizona State University Sharks are some of the most ecologically important and most threatened animals on Earth. Recent reports show that up to one-third of all known species of sharks and their relatives, rays, are threatened with extinction. Unsustainable overfishing...
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Analysis of the fossil record shows a mysterious mass extinction that decimated the diversity of sharks in the world’s oceans, and they’ve never fully recovered. By Katherine Kornei - The New York Times Extinctions that obliterate wide swaths of life have...
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Under the placid waters of Qiandao Lake lay mysteries covered by rising waters. Lost in the depths are 2 cities, 49 towns and over 1350 villages. Qiandao Lake (simplified Chinese: 千岛湖; pinyin: Qiāndǎo Hú) literally means 'Thousand Island Lake' due to...
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A green sea turtle mistook a tourist for a snack in Eleuthera, the Bahamas, in 2019.Credit...Shane Gross Scientists are concerned about unregulated feeding of ocean wildlife by tour operators. By Priyanka Runwal - The New York Times It took nearly three...
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To say that there has been some controversy over the recent Netflix production Seaspiracy would be like suggesting the ocean is a little moist. Billed as an investigative documentary into a global conspiracy of organisations that downplays, ignores or even supports the...
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By Max James False Bay in South Africa used to be one of the few places on the planet that divers safely protected by cages could reliably encounter great white sharks. Along with Guadalupe Island off Mexico’s west coast and around Port...
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Peter JS Jones, UCL and Rick Stafford, Bournemouth University Marine protected areas, or MPAs as they’re more commonly called, are very simple. Areas of the sea are set aside where certain activities – usually fishing – are banned or restricted. Ideally, these MPAs might...
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A new study by researchers at the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) has used acoustic telemetry to reveal critical information about the habitats and movement patterns of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) in the waters around Mozambique. The study, conducted with...
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The world-renowned scuba hotspot of Sipadan is to shut for a month each year to minimize the impact of divers and snorkellers. Last week the tourist authorities in the Malaysian state of Sabah confirmed that the remote island will be...
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Study Reveals the Fifth Consecutive Annual Rise in Ocean Temperatures Last year was the warmest year on record for the world’s oceans - just as the previous four years have all been record-breakers. A study published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric...
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