(AP) -- A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 15, 2009 4.3 / 5 (15) 1

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco Tuesday to the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a massive vortex ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 04, 2009 4.6 / 5 (9) 0

The United States issued a ruling on Friday saying that five world populations of loggerhead sea turtles are endangered species but four are only "threatened."

Biology - Ecology

Sep 16, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0

The long-beaked La Plata River dolphin, a small species living in in South America's Atlantic coastal waters, is increasingly threatened with extinction from big-net fishing, Brazilian researchers warn.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 18, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

A tawny water fowl that lived in a tiny corner of Madagascar is extinct, wiped out by an introduced species of predatory fish and by nylon fishing nets, conservationists reported on Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

May 26, 2010 4.8 / 5 (4) 3

Authorities in southern China have moved to quash a bizarre piranha threat, offering bounties and free bait amid fears the aggressive South American fish has invaded a river, state media said on Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 12, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 3

Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting – for their fins, as an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other species, and in recreational fisheries. ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 27, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Dan Watson, a Glasgow School of Art graduate, has won the UK leg of the James Dyson award for his innovative fishing net rings that light up and guide smaller fish through nets meant for larger ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 31, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 2 |

(Phys.org)—Fish populations around the world could soon be full of slow growing, unproductive 'couch potatoes' if the current levels of intensive fishing continue, according to Deakin University research.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 10, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

The tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in March 2011 created the biggest single dumping of rubbish, sweeping some five million tonnes of shattered buildings, cars, household goods and other rubble into ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Bangladesh will declare three river areas in its southwest as dolphin sanctuaries, wildlife officials said Monday, in a bid to protect the country's population of endangered freshwater cetaceans.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 31, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first few days of life for a leatherback turtle are no easy walk on the beach.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 02, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —Sonar used by the navy may cause porpoises to get trapped in fishing nets and killed, according to a recent study.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 13, 2013 2.3 / 5 (3) 2 |

Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is threatening coastal stocks of minke ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 23, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP) -- The turtles at this waterfront hospital have been hit by boat propellers, caught in fishing nets, attacked by sharks, stricken with tumors and lost flippers.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 06, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0