– Up to 85 percent of loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings found on beaches in the southern United States are female, a finding that researchers say has implications for the recovery of the threatened species. The data is part of a large scale project to expl
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Britain said this week it might have to dump radioactive pollution stockpiled at its Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant into the Irish Sea after 2006, as tanks storing the waste age and may become unsafe.
A blue whale carcass washed up on the south side of Male’ island on the evening of Monday 9 December. It was rotten and rather smelly, so was cut up and removed for burial on another island the following morning. The head was missing, but some throat pleats were visible. The remains measured 11m, and
At midday on Wednesday November 23rd the Anna M sailed quietly out of Baltimore, West Cork and with Cape Clear as a backdrop headed south for Lagos, Portugal on the first leg of the Cape Clear to Cape Verdes (CC2CV) Humpback Whale Expedition. A pod of common dolphins came along to see us off. With
“We’ve made mistakes here”, says Gudyon Kristjonsson, a member of Iceland’s Parliament and former trawler skipper. Full Story
Over a quarter of all the deaths of endangered adult beluga whales in Canada’s Saint Lawrence Estuary are caused by cancer, local researchers have found. Such high rates of cancer are unprecedented in wild animals, apart from fish. Industrial pollution is
The lucrative shark fin market is contributing to the demise of the dusky shark, prompting West Australian authorities to try to protect the species. Fu
Coming off a year in which right-whale births were documented in record numbers off the Florida coast, researchers are hopeful for another strong breeding season by the nearly extinct species.
The whale was rotting and its flesh and bones coming apart when it was washed ashore; some parts were entangled among the tripods of the seawall overlooking the Maafannu Stadium.
The sunken tanker Prestige could go on leaking fuel oil until 2006, causing long-lasting damage to the devastated coastline of northwest Spain, experts said.