Last month, the EU banned fishermen from Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Malta from catching bluefin tuna, a highly-prized species especially popular in Japan, where a single fish can fetch up to $100,000.

A computer biology lab at Rutgers has created The International Census of Marine Life, combining exploration and discovery with database development and analysis.

The census project also has an …

Last week, the president of Kiribati (pronounced “Kiribass”) — a nation of 33 atolls, scattered across two million square miles of the central Pacific Ocean — warned that rising sea levels have doomed his country of 92,000 people.

What does it feel like when your submarine launches a ballistic missile? When you finally earn your Dolphins, the submariner’s equivalent of pilot’s wings? When you find yourself heading to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis? When your sub accidentally dives below its maximum test depth? Hear nine tales of former submariners about life underwater.

The “Superfish” marine biologist Rick Rosenthal chases in this Sunday’s episode of Nature are among the most elegant and streamlined swimmers in the sea. But what is it like to swim with monsters?