Posts in category Environment

Have you often wondered how to identify all those rockfish and abalone species? Have you ever wanted to be a marine biologist? Are you interested in collecting data on our …

Yesterday, the Ministry of Interior of Ecuador released a video showing Vice Minister Diego Fuentes explaining that 200,000 shark fins (which corresponds to roughly 40,000 sharks) had been seized in a series …

View image | gettyimages.com On Tuesday, a headless, badly-composed whale washed ashore along the Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California. It was the 12th dead whale to wash ashore …

Less than a week after more than 220,000 gallons of untreated sewage poured into the ocean and Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, the county health department has declared the water …

If you were planning on diving the Monterey Bay this weekend, you might not have to cancel your plans. The 100,000-gallon sewage spill at at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove on …

By now you’re familiar with 3D printing – the process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. It’s being used for everything from creating prototype packaging to surgical …

View image | gettyimages.com As of Wednesday night, the oil spill from a ruptured onshore pipeline in Santa Barbara has now spread across 9 miles of ocean, and officials are now saying that …

If you’re considering diving Lovers Point in Pacific Grove this week – or in the waters around this area – you might want to change your plans. On Monday, more …

View image | gettyimages.com It sounded like a great idea at the time – sinking millions of worn tires into the ocean to provide safe haven for sea life and …

Sunfish, or Mola Mola, are sometimes encountered by divers in California. They develop their bullet-like shape because they are born with a back fin that never grows, instead, it folds …