Today the sanctuary protects 2,900 square nautical miles of waters. Its boundaries stretch from Biscayne National Park near Miami to the Dry Tortugas, 70 miles west of Key West
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The project began an ambitious study to attach satellite tags to sharks at Darwin Island to track their movements.
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In a step to protect marine wildlife, the state puts a ban on plastic microbeads
Oceana hopes that this win becomes a stepping stone for an entirely new way of approaching the fishing industry.
The vision behind Project Poseidon is to facilitate a greater understanding of the link and synergy that exists between sea and space, and to use the mission as a catalyst to strengthen that connection.
The discovery has raised a number of exciting questions, including how the turtles generate their biofluorescence, and whether the ability is limited to the Solomon Islands population.
Using figures from previously published papers, the authors of this recent study estimate that in the United States alone, 8 trillion microbeads make their way into lakes, rivers and estuaries every day.
New study explains effective method for underwater-sampling of manta ray mucus as an alternative DNA source.
The beauty and wonder of the human soul will meet the astonishing diversity of nature as we escape the terrestrial confines of gravity and embrace the weightless magic of life in the sea.
Last week, a 66-year-old Japanese tourist pushed the selfie death toll for 2015 to 12, after a photo on the steps of the Taj Mahal led to a fatal fall.
In a time when ocean acidification as a result of climate change threatens the health of marine environments all over the world, understanding how the Kavachi sharks have adapted to survive in highly acidic conditions is of particular interest.
Actions such as these are desperately needed, as the majority of known shark species are, to some extent, endangered, and 30 percent are considered at risk of extinction.
Controversy has been ignited after a fishing trawler from Cornwall, England accidentally caught 10 tons of shark while fishing for John Dory off the Isles of Scilly.
Reverentially known in diving circles as ‘Her Deepness’, the octogenarian has no plans to slow down. In fact, she recently celebrated her landmark birthday with an expedition dive to Cashes Ledge, a submerged mountain range and ecological hotspot off the coast of New England.
SeaLife continues to advance its universally appealing Flex-Connect line by introducing its latest Flex-Connect Ball Joint Adapter in early August….