A Russian Navy vessel traveling through the English Channel fired shots on Tuesday near the yacht of a British couple, causing no damage but raising concerns amid ongoing tension between Britain and Russia over marine transit in the region. Late on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the Russian ship, the…
Trackers that ping satellites every time a whale surfaces for air. Thermal cameras that can detect the animals day and night. Acoustic devices that monitor their calls. These and other emerging technologies could help protect the world’s last surviving North Atlantic right whales from collisions with vessels, a leading threat to their survival. And the…
In the turquoise waters off La Ventana, a sleepy coastal town on Mexico’s Baja peninsula, Claudio Rios, 41, monitored the radio of a fishing boat. It was late March. His eyes scanned the horizon, one hand loose on the wheel as the Sea of Cortez swayed beneath him. “It smells like orcas,” he said: pungent…
