This winter has been a bonanza for Puget Sound and Hood Canal residents who thrill at the sight of orcas, including one who was captured in Budd Inlet 27 years ago and eventually set free.

Integrated networks of marine reserves offer the best formula for protecting and preserving marine resources, according to a new report released today by the Pew Oceans Commission.

Small oil patches left from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill are still releasing toxins that harm sea life, government scientists said. Full Story

The Bush administration undermined America’s landmark environmental laws on almost a daily basis in 2001, two new reports suggest. Full Story

Overfishing has driven several species of shark to near extinction in the North Atlantic, researchers in Canada reported. Full Story

For the first time in over two decades, biologists have found an increased number of endangered Steller sea lions in western Alaska, said a report issued at a marine science conference.

In light of the mass stranding of Pilot Whales in Co. Kerry last March, the IWDG (in conjunction with British Diver’s Marine Life Rescue) has decided to run a training course for rescue services and interested memebers of the public in the Co. Kerry regio

On Wednesday 8th Jan. 2003 a Pseudorca crassidens mass stranding ocurred on a small rocky beach near Burela (Galicia). At least 20 individuals stranded in an inaccessible part of the coastline. The final numbers of dead individuals is not known and

The impact of a deadly virus which killed hundreds of seals in Scottish waters could have been worse, according to experts. Full Story

A promise to modify vast trawl nets to save dolphins from slaughter has not been kept by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, resulting in continued dolphin and porpoise deaths along the south coast.