Today’s Daily Mail shocker headline: “Taking omega-3 fish oil supplements may increase the risk of aggressive prostate cancer by 70%”  I tend not to rely on the Mail for science and health news, but...

Royal Dutch Shell has spent billions of dollars over six years preparing to drill for new oil in Alaska. Some twenty-five billion barrels of oil are estimated to be deep under the Beaufort and...

Economies don’t equilibrate and nature doesn’t balance. Both are concepts imposed on natural systems that are in reality constantly pushed around by climate and entrepreneurial activity. This matters for speech and debate students because...

Alone in the animal world, tunicates produce cellulose, plus produce omega-3 fatty acids. Tunicates are described as the “yellowish, slimy growth that many of us have come across on ropes that have lain in...

In a big country like Brazil, it makes sense for fish farmers to choose a big fish. The Tambaqui is that fish, and “averages about 3 feet in length (1 meter) and adult specimens...

Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the worlds fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management. “The majority...