Another endangered Hawaiian monk seal has been killed. Sunday's discovery of a slain seal on a beach in Kauai marks the fourth time in six months that one of these rare animals -- there are just 1,100 left in the wild -- has turned up dead under disturbing circumstances, including...
(7) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 1:44 PM
To me, the ocean is our greatest wilderness. I love swimming in it, surfing its swells, watching it from shore and thinking about all the life churning unseen beneath the surface.
When I take my little kids to check out tide pools, we're overjoyed when we find...
(5) Comments | Posted January 17, 2012 | 7:45 AM
Think the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been tough to clean up?
Well, wait till it happens in the Arctic. For much of the year, the Arctic seas are covered with ice and impassable for oil-spill response ships -- oil could gush unabated for up to eight...
(3) Comments | Posted April 27, 2012 | 1:41 PM