Last Stop: The Great Burial Reef
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Talk about swimming with the fishes. A Florida-based company offers to enshrine your late loved ones by submerging their remains in a manmade ocean reef
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Iâm a 46-year-old software engineer and manager who has traveled to five continents for both business and pleasure. My hobby is nature and wildlife photography. So I have taken trips to exotic places like Tanzania for a safari and Cambodia to visit the Prek Toal nature reserve on the Tonle Sapp.
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A team of American ocean researchers have claimed to have found the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus. According to The Telegraph, the researchers led by Robert Sarmast used the latest sonar
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Environment lovers can now take their passion to the grave.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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The collapse of two Antarctic ice shelves is offering scientists a glimpse of rarely seen species&#8212;and at how pristine ocean ecosystems respond to sudden change.&#149; See photos >>
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The Salton Sea, once known as Californiaâs Riviera, is dying. Inside a new plan to save it.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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Undersea quakes are inevitable. The questions are where and when Â and the recent catastrophe may provide clues.
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By Brian Skoloff  Associated Press  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A mile offshore from this city's high- rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor -- a white-walled, steel- belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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Marine researchers have discovered the deepest coral reef ever found in the United States in about 250 feet of water off the Florida coast.
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By Julia Scott, STAFF WRITER  A30-mile hike from the Bayland flats of Redwood City to the tidepools of the Pacific Ocean will soon be possible for those ambitious enough for such a trek.
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By Martin Shipton  An end to offshore sand dredging could lead to quarrying in some of Wales's most beautiful landscapes, environmentalists have been warned.
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Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an Earth-friendly source of fuel. Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an earth-friendly source of fuel.  Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more