(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

The Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered marine mammal in the United States, has a long list of threats - fishing nets, sharks and, particularly, humans. But for one group of seals, the biggest threat came ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 15, 2012 not rated yet 0

Conservation group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Indonesian waters off Borneo island Tuesday and called for greater protection of the species' habitat.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 07, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 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

A Russian ship has found debris from the Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific thousands of kilometres from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 16, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 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

Improved fishing nets have saved tens of thousands of endangered sea turtles in recent years, but 4,600 are still dying annually, mainly in Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawls, said a US study on Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 14, 2011 not rated yet 0

Conservation group WWF on Wednesday called for urgent action to prevent the extinction of freshwater dolphins in the Mekong River, including the creation of special conservation zones.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 17, 2011 not rated yet 2

Satellite tracking of olive ridley sea turtles off the coast of Central Africa has revealed that existing protected areas may be inadequate to safeguard turtles from fishing nets, according to scientists with ...

Biology - Ecology

May 12, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

US authorities Wednesday closed to shrimping a section of the Gulf of Mexico near the area of a massive oil spill this year as a precautionary measure after a commercial shrimper found tar balls in his net.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 25, 2010 not rated yet 3

University of Queensland research has found fish have developed their own mosquito nets in order to get a good night's sleep.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 17, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

The Saimaa ringed seal population in Finland, which has been on the brink of extinction for decades, increased slightly last year thanks to aggressive conservation efforts, experts said Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 11, 2010 not rated yet 1

An aggressive, invasive aquatic organism that is on the state's most dangerous species list has been discovered in both Winchester Bay and Coos Bay, and scientists say this "colonial tunicate" - Didemnum ve ...

Biology - Ecology

May 13, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 1

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) -- Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles from dying in fishing nets have tapped a Cape Cod company to build a device they think can help balance turtle protection with profitable fishing.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 20, 2009 not rated yet 0