Soggy Science

Less than 20 miles from the site where melting ice exposed the 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman, scientists have discovered new and compelling evidence that the Italian Alps are warming at an unprecedented rate.

When first presented with the concept of Precision Diving, I was skeptical.  I had been an avid diver for 13 years already, and had been a Scuba Instructor for 9 of those years.  Of course, I belie...

Experts and conservationists have hit out at WA's policies to prevent shark attacks, which include the establishment of offshore kill zones.

The Australian government will push through with sending a customs ship to the Antarctic Ocean to monitor the Japanese whalers that left last weekend. This after Australian Environment Minister Gre...

The practice of throwing surplus fish into the sea will be banned in Europe from 2015 following a vote by the European Parliament

Deputy Zoo Director Marcia Woodard said the zoo's white, female tiger escaped through an underwater break in the fencing around 3:30 p.m. into the zoo's Asian hoof stock exhibit, which houses gazelles and another animals.

[...] the fishermen tie threads around the necks of the cormorants to prevent them from swallowing the fish they catch. Once the threads are set, the fishermen begin chanting on their boats to prompt the birds to dive down and retrieve the fish.

Scientists have mapped a dramatic undersea cliff in the southern Gulf of Mexico that could hold clues to the ancient cosmic collision that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The increased global consumption of food means that there is an increasing yield gap between crop production and crop usage.

A $25-billion proposal to re-engineer the hub of California's sprawling water system may not yield all the water that San Joaquin Valley farmers and Southland cities want, leaving open the question of whether the massive project will be built.

Oceanographers are tracking seismically sensitive mermaids through the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. Continue reading →

A veteran Great Lakes shipwreck hunter said he and his crew have found the wreck of a wooden steamer that sank in 1861 in Lake Huron.

AN APPLICATION to continue dumping dredged material from Devonport Naval Base has re-ignited a campaign calling for an end to using a south west beach as the disposal area for "toxic...

Researcher's study finds underwater adventures bring danger to sensitive ecology in city's waters

A thriving community of single-celled microbes that consume carbon dioxide for food populate Antarctica's glacial Lake Whillans, the shallow lake buried under thousands of feet of ice.