Marine Conservation

Marine conservation is not just critical for the health of our oceans.

A bit of a splash erupted on the Web yesterday in the form of photos showing a boat displaying two hammerheads. One was a shark. The other was the celebrity, Rosie O'Donnell.

An encouraging sign of a new awareness and public awakening about the critical needs of the marine environment has been the recent introduction by Sen...

Though we have feet not fins, we are more dependent on the oceans than you may imagine. On World Oceans Day it pays to reflect on all that our seas provide and how we can repay the many favors.

Every year $1 billion dollars worth of reef fish are exported -- alive -- from The Coral Triangle to Hong Kong.

This series aims to provide an outlet in which we hope to open up the discussion on overfishing to the larger public, cut through the rhetoric and encourage more people to participate in marine fish conservation.

Even when local communities make every effort to conserve their reefs, global climate change means more bleaching, more dead reefs, and more ocean acidification.

The U.S. still has time to decide to uphold the moratorium on whale hunting. Are we willing to stand up for a future ocean that is bountiful and healthy for future generations of humans and whales?

It was with plenty of excitement for the revival of my inner marine biologist-girl that I read through the New York Times' coverage of Google Earth's new application.