Puerto Rico fuel spill could harm reefs
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Authorities were trying to determine the origin of a fuel spill that could threaten coral reefs off Puerto Rico, the government said Thursday.
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By Kathy Marks  The Great Barrier Reef, already under threat from global warming, is also being affected by pollutants and pesticides from the land carried into the sea by flooded rivers, satellite images show.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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A Canadian-led study suggested planned seafloor mining will put undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms at risk.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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AGUA DULCE, Mexico  - The stench of rotten fish  and gasoline hangs over beached wooden boats and piles of dry  nets in the riverside fishing community of El Muelle on  Mexico's east coast.
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Hurricanes feed on warm water, and a  study released on Monday shows a link between warmer ocean  temperatures and human use of fossil fuels, challenging  skeptics who blame them on natural climate cycles.
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U.S. scientists say they have made a discovery that could help public health officials know instantly when pollution moves into the coastal ocean.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Here's a dumb idea: The U.S. Department of the Interior has told its U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees in northeastern North Carolina not to respond to public inquiries about the effects of a proposed Navy practice landing field there.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of global warming, a leaked IPCC report says.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour. That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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By ESPINER, Colin; STEWARD, Ian  Conservation Minister Chris Carter is warning of an environmental disaster if a Japanese whaling ship foundering off the Antarctic coast spills oil into the Ross Sea.
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Fuel oil is spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska, threatening the fragile ecocystem of the Aleutian islands.
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Carbon dioxide in the air is turning the oceans acidic, and without a reduction in emissions, coral reefs may die away by the end of the century, researchers warn in Fridayâs issue of the journal Science.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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Science & environment: The majority of the world's coral reefs are in danger of being killed off by rising levels of greenhouse gases
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Authorities on Spain&#39;s Mediterranean holiday island of Ibiza closed a third beach on Friday after the coast was hit by a fuel spill from a sunken freighter.