Whales might poop more than scientists previously thought. That’s one conclusion of a paper published Wednesday in Nature, in which researchers spied on baleen whales with suction-cup sensors and ...

There’s an elite club in surfing. One which, for entry, requires determination, desperation, and a smidge of shameless depravity. We’re talking about the pooping in the ocean (occasionally wetsuit) ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon State University researchers have been scooping up whale poop to better understand not only the health of the mammals but also of our ocean. It may not be the most pleasant of ...

OREGON, USA — Gray whales visit Oregon's coast every summer. And every summer Leigh Torres is out on the ocean right there with them. "We do these sort of health check-ups on individual whales," she ...

Sharks are incredibly scary creatures to experience first-hand, and I totally understand why you’d be afraid to go swimming in the ocean in an area known for shark encounters. But it turns out that ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

You could call it karma: The garbage we dump into the oceans is literally coming home to roost. Ecologists have determined that nearly all seabirds ingest large quantities of plastic. As the birds ...

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its statutory authority in its regulation of San Francisco’s discharge of pollutants into the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, covers health, medicine, wellness and science There are two bits of microplastic news from this weekend.