Since the release of Jaws in 1975, with the specter of the man-eating great white shark forever imprinted in our collective imagination, we've been wading into the water a bit more tentatively. But it is, in fact, the sharks that need to worry, particularly those in the waters...

The stars of Shark Week, great white sharks, are in trouble off the coast of California. Unfortunately, a recent scientific estimate of this population showed less than 350 adult great white sharks left in the population found off the US west coast, putting this important great white...

You've heard of Easter Island, but you may not be familiar with its uninhabited neighbor. Salas y Gómez Island has been called one of the world's last untouched marine places.

A recent expedition and new documentary demonstrate the stark contrast between these two islands -- and the need for new...

According to a new report released this week by Oceana, less than 1% of the highly migratory sharks reported caught in the Atlantic Ocean are protected from overfishing by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the group that's charged with protecting them.

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Today is a sobering day for sharks. Colombian authorities have reported that as many as 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and silky sharks may have been slaughtered for their fins in the nation's Pacific waters.

According to the Colombian president's top environmental adviser, divers saw 10 Costa Rican trawlers...

It's official: With a stroke of California Governor Jerry Brown's pen, the entire U.S. West Coast has now banned the trade of shark fins.

We've been working to support the bill since its introduction; we called our legislators and Governor Brown and urged them to protect sharks,...

Last week, the California Senate passed a bill that made a big statement: Sharks should be swimming in the wild, not in shark fin soup.

The bill bans the trade of shark fins in the state, and if signed into law by the Governor, will mean a complete...

This week, more than 30 million Americans will tune in to watch Discovery Channel's Shark Week. It's easy to understand why: Sharks are some of the most amazing, powerful animals in the world. But as you sit transfixed by high-definition images of sharks, keep in mind...

Christmas came early for sharks, as Congress took the last step yesterday to pass a ban on shark finning in the U.S.

Shark finning is the brutal practice of slicing off a shark's fins, often for use in shark fin soup, an Asian delicacy. The shark -- sometimes still...