Sea Shepherds super-fast new boat the Ady Gil was destroyed in a collision with a whale-hunting ship, earlier this month. For weeks, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been struggling to defend whales against so-called “scientific whaling” by Japanese-run harpoon boats, in a now familiar annual conflict.

The deadline for the first major international underwater photo and video competitions of the new decade is January 15th.

A new transparent breed of goldfish has been announced by researchers at Nagoya and Mie Universities.

New research into dolphin intelligence has lifted the status of the iconic cetaceans past chimpanzees in the ‘world’s smartest animal’ debate.

The Nature Conservancy’s senior marine scientist Alison Green recently
visited the Misool Eco Resort’s 20-kilometre long marine protected area.
On the first dive of their survey, differences between the unprotected
reefs of surrounding regions and that of Misool became immediately
apparent.