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By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — Fifty miles southeast of Grand Isle, La., sits the Lena, which used to be an oil rig owned by ExxonMobil. After the site stopped producin
But the state public safety director says the case count in the jail dropped from a peak of 43 down to 12.
The recreational scuba diving market is not homogeneous. There are various socio-demographic profiles of scuba divers.
When a gargantuan iceberg calved off of Antarctica last month, it revealed a bustling community of sea life for the first time in decades.
Amid government failure to properly monitor the impact of deep-sea fisheries, numbers of rays and sharks are dwindling.
A projectile point dredged from the deep could tell us so much about early people in Tierra del Fuego—if only we knew its age.
A new dictionary project aims to safeguard coastal Irish words and the unique perspectives they provide.
Heal the Bay and Assembly Member Richard Bloom Introduce Legislation to Protect Public Health at Freshwater Swimming and Recreation Sites in California Twenty-four years ago, the California Legislature took an important step forward in protecting public health at ocean beaches. AB411, authored … Read More »
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Young-of-the-year (YOY) and juvenile-stage white sharks may use southern California nearshore beach habitats more extensively than previously known, within meters of some of the most heavily used beaches in the world. Such knowledge forms a critical component of species management and conservation plans, in addition to public safety and risk mitigation planning. We used data derived from a combination of satellite tag locations (13 animals over 3 years) and passive acoustic monitoring (34 animals over 8 years) to examine the occurrence, relative abundance, and residency patterns of YOY white sharks in southern California waters. Our results suggest that southern California contains spatiotemporally dynamic centers of primary nursery habitat. Tagged YOY white sharks formed loose aggregations at “hotspot” locations that were interannually variable, where individuals exhibited temporal fidelity, higher levels of residency, and spatially restricted movements, with multiple YOY individuals simultaneously displaying this behavior. While models of biotic and abiotic variables suggested relative abundance of tagged sharks may be predicted by sea surface temperature, salinity and productivity (chlorophyll-A), these predictors were not consistent across all years of the study. Thus, novel approaches that incorporate technologies to derive high resolution environmental data, paired with more comprehensive telemetry datasets are therefore required to better understand the extrinsi
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After an apocalyptic storm, survivors band together on a surreal journey
The lower category of recycled water could still be used on golf courses and for some types of farm irrigation.
Forecasters are warning beachgoers on Friday to keep an eye out for sneaker wave
U.S. health officials are warning people not to use this brand of alkaline water.
California's underwater kelp forests are suffering massive declines. But a new study shows that sea otters are helping to preserve kelp off the Central Coast.
Jill Heinerth dives into the heart of icebergs at the planet’s poles.
With support from their advocates, fishermen are starting to confront the toll that dangerous working conditions, economic and environmental uncertainty, and ever-changing regulations take on their minds and bodies.
Tracking tags have shown that several species of marine animals, including king penguins, green sea turtles and tiger sharks, sometimes repeatedly swim in circles, but it's unclear why
In the ocean, visibility drops dramatically with depth—a fact elephant seals take advantage of to migrate more safely.
In jade waters off Hong Kong's eastern shoreline, scientists are thrilled to spot a cuttlefish protecting her eggs inside an artificial, 3D-printed clay seabed helping to restore the city's fragile coral reefs.
From climate change and carbon emissions to biodiversity and global hunger, humanity faces so many challenges that tackling them quickly is a daunting task. One solution that potentially addresses multiple issues could provide the impetus society needs to make significant progress.
Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour
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