In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. In the late 1850s, Chinese immigrants who moved to California after the ...

With their eel-like bodies, vampire teeth and suction cup mouths, the main characters of a new documentary resemble something out of the “Dune” science fiction films. The sea lamprey nearly destroyed ...

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With the growth of offshore wind farms there are many questions surrounding their impact. In the second of two stories about what researchers are finding, science correspondent Miles O'Brien takes us ...

Cuddly animals such as pandas and sea otters usually steal the limelight in conservation programs. But a new PBS documentary series spotlights fish as animals in desperate need of protection. Two UC ...

Trawler TN-20 ‘Sea Lady’ moored at Portsmouth in a file photo. (Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Clive G.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – After a television documentary accused a Scottish fishing company ...

The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die ...

The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die as “unintended” bycatch in reckless fishing operations or lose their lives ...