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Brazil Just Got a Huge New Oil Field. Or Did It?

Brazil is petitioning the United Nations to extend its territorial waters to include the new oil field, but opinions are divided as to whether the country needs to wait for approval before it can start drilling.

Jul 15, 2019 | 850 words, about 4 minutes

killifish egg that was eaten by a coscoroba swan, seven days before hatching

Killifish Eggs Can Survive Being Eaten

A fish egg hatched after passing through a swan’s digestive tract. The discovery lends credence to the idea that birds help fish spread to far-off lands.

Jul 11, 2019 | 500 words, about 2 minutes

illustration of transshipment vessel with skull in smoke

Searching for Keith

A detective’s quest reveals how one idealistic fisheries observer may have collided with criminals and desperate migrants—and paid for it with his life.

Jul 9, 2019 | 6,100 words, about 31 minutes

mud from tailing pond dam rupture flows in the Doce river in 2015

Research Unveils New Damage Caused by Brazil’s Failed Fundão Dam

A new study shows that mine tailings loosed by the collapsed dam contaminated the Abrolhos Marine National Park.

Mar 8, 2019 | 900 words, about 4 minutes

Fur Seals Face a Wormier World

Climate change could have repercussions that leave marine mammals more vulnerable to disease.

Dec 27, 2018 | 500 words, about 2 minutes

Can the Ghost Dolphin Survive Obscurity?

Researchers struggle to save something they know next to nothing about.

Sep 27, 2018 | 650 words, about 3 minutes

researchers and volunteers remove the flesh from a dead blue whale

How to Dismantle a Blue Whale

In Chile, a team of volunteers confronts stench and gore to ensure a new life for a dead whale.

Aug 7, 2018 | 1,300 words, about 7 minutes

The Andean Condor’s 100-Kilometer Diet

Depleted marine mammals and an increasingly developed coastline mean these scavengers have to fly far to find food.

Jun 25, 2018 | 600 words, about 3 minutes

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