Poo is big business in the open ocean. It's a vital source of nutrients for many aquatic plants, and helps sequester vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. But studying poo and pooing behavior in ...

This seabird poops on the fly. Streaked shearwaters, oceanic birds that spend much of their time out on the open Pacific Ocean, defecate almost exclusively in the air, researchers report August 18 in ...

There’s an elite club in surfing. One which, for entry, requires determination, desperation, and a smidge of shameless depravity. We’re talking about the pooping in the ocean (occasionally wetsuit) ...

Leo Uesaka strapped cameras onto seabirds to study their takeoffs. What he got instead was a barrage of poop footage. “I was surprised to see how frequently the birds defecated in the video footage,” ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its statutory authority in its regulation of San Francisco’s discharge of pollutants into the ...