Oceans

Let’s kickstart science in America

Science funding is broken. To fix it, we need to empower a new class of makers, citizen scientists and explorers The troubling state of science funding in America goes by many n...

Beautiful and sad GIFs that show what’s happening to the ocean

Scientist Sylvia Earle (TED Talk: My wish: Protect our oceans) has spent the past five decades exploring the seas. During that time, she’s witnessed a steep decline in ocean wil...

An encounter with poachers in the Bahamas

Thousands of lobster tails are legally imported into the U.S. from the Dominican Republic each year — although no commercially viable stocks of spiny lobster exist in Dominican ...