The Bush administration is planning to gut the Endangered Species Act before leaving office, according to the Associated Press.
A draft of the proposed changes, obtained by the AP, indicates that the plan would be to utterly remove government-funded scientists from the decision-making process, allowing regulatory agencies to decide for themselves whether a project was dangerous [...]

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I lived and studied in northeastern Australia for 6 months last year, and I can assure you that the biodiversityin Australian waters is second-to-none.
I can also tell you for sure that there is a wide network of “protections” for Australian tourists and swimmers, from nets to baited hooks, that kill dozens and maybe hundreds of [...]

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The next big Shark Week debut tonight is “Greenland Shark Quest,” an episode of “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.”
In this episode, Mike travels to the far north to tag along with scientists trying to study Greenland sharks below the ice.
It looks awfully cold - sounds like Mike misses last year’s trip to the Bahamas.
The Greenland [...]

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MYTHBUSTERS: SHARK SPECIAL
Premieres Sunday, July 27, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Get a reminder.
Do dogs attract sharks? Do the vibrations caused by a flapping injured fish attract sharks? Does chili powder repel sharks? And hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman create the ultimate SHARK WEEK build – a 16-foot-long robo-shark!
Allright, here are the big myths they’re [...]

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Photo by Mark Gustin
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is my honor to present a guest post from Andy Murch of  ElasmoDiver.com, in response to my post on Safe Shark Diving

I would like to weigh in on the criticism being directed at Jim Abernathy.

Before I became a shark photographer I went mountaineering quite a bit. It is a [...]

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