Pic o’ the Week: Tiny Sea Life

Photo by Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft/UAF/CMarZ A one-centimeter large larval-tube Medusae anemone. It's already begun fishing for food with its tiny tentacles and its dark stomach indicates it's finding food. This image was taken as part of the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year collaboration among more than 2,000 scientists from 80+ nations. The census, which will …

cruises and oceans – high impact

Caribbean countries showed their sea some love this week by banning the dumping of all garbage at sea. As one UN consultant working on the pact said, "It's a big deal." And it's been a long time coming - the ban was established,  for all intents and purposes, in 1993. But it's taken until 2010 …