Plastic Soup Photos Illuminate Ocean Pollution

By Chidinma Onuoha / On April 23rd, 2019
Plastics have transformed every aspect of our lives. Yet the very properties that make them attractive—they are cheap to make, light, and durable—spell disaster when trash makes its way into the environment. Recent bans on single-use straws and bags have increased awareness of this issue. But, for most people, the full extent of our plastic problem is difficult to grasp.

#ForewordFriday: Oceans of Krill Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On June 29th, 2018
As I watched, mesmerized, this mass of crustaceans became a living brick-red raft, writhing on top of the water’s surface. The water became disturbed as thousands of krill flipped their muscular tails and leaped clear of the water, falling back like a shower of pink raindrops.

Eight Surprising Words that Describe Krill

By Katharine Sucher / On May 8th, 2018
As I watched, mesmerized, this mass of crustaceans became a living brick-red raft, writhing on top of the water’s surface. The water became disturbed as thousands of krill flipped their muscular tails and leaped clear of the water, falling back like a shower of pink raindrops.
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Field Notes from Loreto

By Heather Leslie / On March 2nd, 2015
Puerto Escondido, south of Loreto. Photo by Heather Leslie.
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Tagging Lemons

By Kennedy Warne / On June 28th, 2011
The role of mangroves as vital nursery habitat for fish is nowhere more evident than in the tiny island of Bimini, off the coast of Florida. Female lemon sharks come to the sheltered lagoon waters to give birth, and the pups live amongst the tangled roots of mangroves, safe from the attention of predators, until they are about three feet long and have a better chance of survival in the open sea. A long-term research program in Bimini is revealing just how important mangroves are in the lives of these sharks, and I turned up right in the middle of the annual population census.