Humans have had considerable effects on the world s oceans. Although we are often most aware of the declines in species caused by our activities, some creatures have benefited enormously. For instance ...

Records stretching back 30 years indicate a tricky problem for marine conservation: When fishing vessels discard less fish-waste material, scavenging seabirds called great skuas attack and kill more ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), a particularly lethal form of bird flu, has been detected in birds in Antarctica for the first time. "Whilst the source of the disease on Bird Island is not ...

Simon Gorta is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales and his PhD research is supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship. Richard Kingsford is a ...

The decrease can be due to shortage of food and increase in predation. Scotland’s seabird population continues to decline but some species are showing signs of recovery, new figures have shown. The ...

A long-term study of the Great Skua seabird shows how hard it can be to separate the natural and the man-made worlds. 100 years ago, hunting pushed the large brown gull to the brink of extinction. It ...