Information collected during impact assessment activities at wave energy test centres across Europe is to be released through a new website. The site is designed to present detailed information to a non-technical audience, ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

University of Adelaide veterinary pathologists have confirmed that a marine virus not previously reported in South Australia has been found in dead dolphins found washed up on the state's beaches.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 26, 2013 1 / 5 (2) 0

Australia will fire the opening salvoes in a legal battle before the United Nations' highest court in June to try to stop Japan's whale hunt in Antarctica.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —In 1972, a U.S. Senate committee reported, "Many of the great whales which once populated the oceans have now dwindled to the edge of extinction," due to commercial hunting. The committee also ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 4

(Phys.org) —New Zealand's heavily endangered Hector's dolphin population could recover if protection measures were extended out to 100m deep throughout its habitat, according to a new University of Otago ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Some thirty million years ago, Ganges river dolphins diverged from other toothed whales, making them one of the oldest species of aquatic mammals that use echolocation, or biosonar, to navigate ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Research from New Zealand's University of Otago detailing the fossil of a dwarf baleen whale from Northern California reveals that it avoided extinction far longer than previously thought.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Researchers have identified areas off southern California with high numbers of whales and assessed their risk from potentially deadly collisions with commercial ship traffic in a study published in the scientific ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

For decades researchers have recorded sounds from whales and other marine mammals, using a variety of methods including passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) to better understand how these animals use sound to ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 22, 2013 not rated yet 0

Pilot whales that have died in mass strandings in New Zealand and Australia included many unrelated individuals at each event, a new study concludes, challenging a popular assumption that whales follow each ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 14, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Pushing beached marine mammals back out to sea can pose health risks to humans, violates federal law and can actually do the animal more harm than good, according to marine experts who took part in a recent ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

The surprising conclusion of the doctoral research project on the feeding ecology of porpoises by Okka Jansen at Wageningen University is that the Eastern Scheldt may be an ecological trap. She also discovered ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

Scientists have urged New Zealand to take immediate action to protect the critically endangered Maui's dolphin, amid warnings the marine mammal could become extinct by 2030.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

(AP)—Crews renovating a public square in the U.S. Virgin Islands have discovered a 1,500-year-old landfill stuffed with shells, bones and pottery fragments.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 13, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0

Nitrogen in ocean waters fuels the growth of two tiny but toxic phytoplankton species that are harmful to marine life and human health, warns a new study published in the Journal of Phycology.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 06, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0