Whether vacationing or living in the Lowcountry for a while, seeing a shark close to the shoreline can be startling. However, sharks may be moving closer to beaches due to climate change. “I think ...

In the heart of French Polynesia, a narrow channel carves its way through the Fakarava Atoll, connecting a vast lagoon to the open ocean. To the casual eye, it’s a beautiful stretch of turquoise water ...

A small, gray dorsal fin slices through the green-blue water of the saltmarsh. These coastal wetlands, flooded and drained by salt water brought in by the tides, occur worldwide and are home to ...

If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ...

A bull shark, the same species of shark that became landlocked in a lake at an Australian golf course in 1996. For nearly two decades, an Australian golf club offered its members an unexpected ...

A new set of global criteria will help identify important areas for sharks, rays, and chimaeras to secure the protection they desperately need in the face of extinction. To date, shark, ray, and ...

The whitefin swellshark has been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Critically Endangered for a number of years due to declines largely attributed to fishing ...

Migratory fish species — specifically sharks, tuna and billfish — could see between 20 and 65% of their habitat lost as a result of warming waters across Earth’s oceans, according to a new study from ...

Shark attacks are on the rise, and climate change may be to blame. Scientists point to warming waters and shifting ocean ecosystems as a potential cause for the surge in shark bite reports. In June, a ...