In July of last year, I was honored to join the team supporting Diana Nyad as she prepared to make her open ocean endurance swim from Hava...

Around the globe, artificial reefs are being established by preparing and sinking ships that have surpassed their useful life at sea.  Dec...

Once again, it's that time of year.  No, not the seasonal dusting off of your flip flops or scrounging around for those beach chai...

Big Foot.  Nessie.  Many regions of the world have there local monster animal legends.  Persistent folklore often invites the curiosity of...

Just prior to the start of the United Nations' Rio+20 conference, which concludes this week, one organization boldly reminded the con...

This past Monday, David Shiffman, who goes by the nom de plume "WhySharksMatter" on the blog Country Fried Science, posted an in...

Today's world is a challenging one for ocean conservation.  On top of all the competing or opposing interests and the need to better c...

As a precursor of hoped for positive attitudes and actions at the upcoming United nations-sponsored Rio+20 Earth Summit conference to be ...

There is a new headline that is racing across the online media outlets like a Colorado forest fire: Man evolved from sharks!   Imagine the...

The Gulf of Maine runs from between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in eastern Canada, along the coast of Maine in the U.S. and down to the ...