Riviera Maya: Geology and Pollution is the second in our series “Can Mass Tourism be Sustainable? A series that examines the impact of rapid and uncontrolled growth on the environment and social stability of Mexico’s Riviera Maya. Turbo-Charged Growth! Since...
To celebrate both Shark Week and Shark Awareness Day, we are bringing you videos of some very bizarre sharks that you might have missed on your last dive. Looking at these videos, you might be glad that you did. Large and small, some inhabit very deep waters, some not...
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, we are being stalked once more. That’s right, this past week has been Shark Week, the Discovery Channel’s overload of everything shark. As the longest running series on cable, this program celebrated an...
Coral Reefs around the world are in decline, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Caribbean, where coral reef ecosystems are threatened by climate change and rising ocean temperatures. As a result, we have witnessed catastrophic, extreme heat events leaving enormous...
Not long ago, the idea of growing coral reefs was considered a “fringe” idea, not practical. But now we realize that coral gardening is both viable and necessary for rehabilitating our coral reef ecosystems and to repair the damage caused by extraordinary heat events...
Here’s a round-up of the latest news on whales, some good and some not so good including endangered whales killed, whales being rescued and whale watching tours going carbon neutral. Endangered Blue Whale Killed by Icelandic Whalers?? Sea Shepherd claims that...