Marine Science

Noone can deny the educational value of travel, which is why study abroad programs have gotten so popular in colleges and universities around the country. California schools offer myriad study abroad programs that send students headlong into other...

The Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet will hold its sixth annual Bird Fest on Saturday. Visitors can learn about bird migration, watch a free-flying raptor demonstration, and witness the release of rehabilitated sea birds and a sea turtle. The event...

Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International, a nonprofit conservation ecology organization, has announced a program that puts used cameras and other equipment to work for promoting the science and art of biodiversity. Through the program, RAEI accepts...

Most days, you can find Jim Longstreet at the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, volunteering his time to help the sea turtle rehab and the seabird rehab programs. “Retirement is great.  I paddle my kayak to work, I am doing something I lo...

Two weeks after crews wrestled temporary control of the geyser of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP as early as Monday could begin the first step in a weeks-long process to permanently jam the blown-out well. But here in this fisherman's paradise,...

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean may be killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash. Scientists on Thursday announced findings from an August expedition to the...

"An El Nino basically is where there is a warming of the sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific," said Stefanie Sullivan, meteorologist intern with the National Weather Service. "Winds that move across the equator weaken and so that warm water...

Far too many of the world's plants and animals -- and the wild places that support them -- are at risk of collapse, a U.N. report (PDF) finds, despite a global goal set in 2002 for major improvement by this......

Volcano ash can wreck jet engines, poison freshwater lakes and damage lungs. But it helps fertilize oceans, volcano researchers and marine chemists say. "The ocean is gonna be happier" because of the Iceland eruption, said Ken Johnson, senior scientist...

President Obama named five panelists to a commission tasked with finding ways to avoid a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 men and started the nation's worst oil spill. They will be led by a former Florida......

Earlier this month, this juvenile green sea turtle was left at Marineland, without any explanation of why he was left there, or where he was found or who found him. But an x-ray at Volusia County's Marine Science Center revealed the problem: a fish hook...

To the negative impact on the environment we have witnessed for the last 90 days, as a result of the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico, a note of hope: the Southern California Giant Kelp Restoration Project. This project was launched in 2001 to reestablish...