Emily Tripp Senior Writer In just the first two weeks of the New Year it is clear that the number of whale sightings will be much higher than previous years. To start, the annual southward migration of gray whales began early this year. In 2010 only eight whales were seen during the entire month of [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer Scientists from the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) have developed a new model that will track bluefin tuna on a daily basis through satellite remote sensing data. This model provides the first overall view of preferred bluefin tuna habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. Tracking populations via satellite will refine estimates [...]
Environmentalists have just discovered a massacre of hammerhead, whale and Galapagos sharks in a Colombian Sanctuary. This horrible news comes just days after a bill signed in California completed the ban on the trade of shark fins for the entire West Coast.
It is widely accepted that the oceans became oxygen-rich to the point they are today about 600 million years ago, in the Late Eriacaran Period. Biochemists at the University of California, Riverside have recently found evidence that the ocean went back to being anxic, or oxygen-poor, around 499 million years ago, soon after the first [...]
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