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.

European Union subsidies totalling 1.4 billion euros (dollars) a year will doom the fishing industry unless halted soon, the conservation body WWF-International said.

Conservation officers and news crews in helicopters were searching for a whale tangled in fishing lines late yesterday off the coast of Western Australia. <

A lot of “It Happens Today” calendars list December 10 as the day the Inuit people of Alaska celebrate the Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales.

Gillnet fishing will be banned in federal waters off much of the Mid-Atlantic coast during most or all of the year to protect migrating sea turtles, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced.

Thousands of dolphins, particularly baby dolphins, are still dying in tuna nets in the eastern tropical Pacific, finds a report prepared by the National Marine Fisheries Service and released by the Earth Island Institute.

More ice melted from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet this year than ever before recorded, report scientists from the University of Colorado. The same team found that the extent of Arctic sea ice reached the lowest level in the satellite record in 2