News & Events

March 27, 2012

Prehistoric peoples managed fisheries in sustainable ways that may have lessons for efforts to reform modern-day counterparts, Jack Kittinger and study co-authors found.

March 23, 2012

Centuries ago, Hawaiians caught three times more fish annually than scientists generally consider to be sustainable in modern times, s reports a new study by Jack Kittinger and others. 

 

March 23, 2012

Fisheries management techniques gleened from a study covering 700 years of human history are discussed in this general interest story profiling a study by Jack Kittinger and others.

March 25, 2012

The important study of ancient fisherines management that appeared in Fish and Fisheries is discussed and explained in this scientific news story.

March 20, 2012

Steve Palumbi blogs and tweets from Ofu in the South Pacific where he has discovered corals that thrive in heated conditions that would kill most reefs.  These corals may hold a secret to how reefs could survive global warming.

March 5, 2012

Survival rates for ocean going leatherback turtles are much higher at certain breeding grounds, a new study has found.  

February 21, 2012

King tides forshadow the effects of climate change on coastal communities, putting a spotlight on adaptation needs.  Meg Caldwell and Susanne Moser elaborate.

February 20, 2012

Deep sea mining lures companies into unexplored habitat.  Rod Fujta comments, putting the issue into perspective.

February 22, 2012

An endangered western gray whale's tag leads scientists from Russia's Sakhalin Island to Baja.  Steve Palumbi comments on the implications.

February 18, 2012

Mobile protection areas that follow the movements of fish, turtles and sea birds may be the best way to safeguard creatures in the oceans, according to Larry Crowder and other experts speaking at the annual AAAS Conference in Vancouver, BC.