Unilateral diet changes the behaviour of butterfly fishThe research team spent over 600 hours underwater observing butterfly fish for two years. In th...

Whales from the Barents Sea are heading towards the CaribbeanThe humpback whales have started their autumn-migration, but where are they heading? Norw...

Advantage for Brain corals & Co.A new study has shown that "robust" reef-building corals are the only known organisms in the animal kingdom that p...

150 million year old fossil with teeth like a piranhaIn the approximately 150 million year old limescale in the quarry Ettling a sensational new speci...

Accumulation of long-lasting environmental toxin in killer whale tissuesMore than forty years after the first steps in the ban of polychlorinated biph...

Iceland continues to disregard biodiversityAfter a break of two years, the Icelandic whaling ship "Hvalur 8" harpooned the first fin whale on 22 June ...

Greenpeace: industrial krill fishing endangers the Southern OceanThe fishing industry is jeopardizing the ecological balance of the south polar food w...

Methane forms foundation of the food chain in caves of Yucatan In subterranean rivers and caves on the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, scientists have...

Heavy oil ban in arctic waters is the only effective measure for the protection of the environment In view of the recently documented reduction of ic...

Glacial retreat accelerated due to Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet The ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offs...

Meeting the expectations of older divers By as early as 2020, 30 percent of the population will be at least 60 years old. This is a fact that th...

Biologists verify polar cod's strong dependence on ice algae The humble polar cod plays an integral role in the Arctic food web. They feed on amphip...

Toxins in shark products linked to neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s Here’s another reason to reject that bowl of shark’s fin the next tim...

“Ice Algae” play a large role in the Arctic food cycleAlgae living in and under the sea ice play a much larger role in the Arctic food web than pr...

More than 30 percent of fish stocks being overfishedA report published on July 7th in Rome by the FAO highlights some alarming figures: 31.4 percent o...

WDC reports on possible causes of whale strandingsThis spring, there have been numerous strandings of sperm whales at the North Sea coast. In total, 3...

An endangered population of wild killer whales in the Salish Sea (between Vancouver Island and Washington State) have been found to consume a diet o...

On World Food Day on October 16th, the WWF reiterated its warning about the impact of overfishing on man and nature. “We eat the seas empty. The ...

When Ocean Acidification Intensifies, Which Species Will Be The Ultimate Survivor?What impact does ocean acidification have on the plankton community ...