How does the Chesapeake Bay spell relief? O-Y-S-T-E-R-S, a new study finds. Like ocean waters around the world, the Chesapeake has become more and more acidic as a result of rising levels of ... Read more
When a handful of retired homeowners from Osborn Island in New Jersey gathered last month to discuss post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding and environmental protection, L. Stanton Hales Jr., a conservationist, could ... Read more
Mauna Lani Reef, Hawaii — After a long, cold swim in the dark, we spotted it on the night reef with our dive lights: Octopus ornatus, the ornate octopus, a footlong creature in an amber shade of orange ... Read more
BOOKS Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. By Daniel C. Dennett. Norton. 496 pages. $27.95. This user-friendly volume by Daniel Dennett distills a career’s worth of ... Read more
In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land by fish that learned to walk and breathe air — researchers have decoded the genome of the coelacanth, a ... Read more
In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land by fish that learned to walk and breathe air — researchers have decoded the genome of the coelacanth, a ... Read more
In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land by fish that learned to walk and breathe air — researchers have decoded the genome of the coelacanth, a ... Read more
Florida’s endangered manatees, already reeling from an unexplained string of deaths in the state’s east coast rivers, have died in record numbers from a toxic red algae bloom that appears each year ... Read more
Many commercial fishing stocks off the United States coast that were depleted by decades of overfishing are returning to abundance, thanks largely to a 1996 law that effectively ordered limits on catches until ... Read more
The Klamath County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to withdraw from an agreement that lays out how to share scarce water between fish and farms, control power costs for irrigators, and restore broken down ... Read more