Live Expedition Tracker Interactive Map. World’s Largest Single Marine Reserve Created in Pacific The area around the Pitcairn Islands is one of the most pristine places on Earth.
Swimming With Wildlife in the Seychelles Meet some of the wildlife enountered on the latest Pristine Seas expedition to the Seychelles. Value passed to resize filter must be a valid URL. Gabon Unveils Huge Marine Reserve The protected area will cover 18,000 square miles of ocean—home to great hammerhead sharks, manta rays, whale sharks, and tiger sharks. Watch: Rare Sea Devil Fish Caught Made famous in the movie Finding Nemo, a sea devil is caught on film for the first time.
Mapping the World's (Few) Protected Seas Gabon and the U.S. have new marine reserves, but just a fraction of the seas are protected. The Antarctic's New Way to Melt Ice shelves lose more mass through melting where the ice meets the sea than by shedding icebergs, a new study says. Ocean Education. Program Ocean Education Bring the Ocean Into Your Classroom See other versions of this page: How Big is a Blue Whale?
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Check back soon for the second Solution Search: Adapting to a Changing Climate! Solution Search rewards innovative conservation successes in communities where the need is greatest. In the first of many searches Rare and its partners seek solutions to help remedy an environmental crisis that is quickly becoming a humanitarian issue: the depletion of global fish stocks. No solution is too small or too large. Rare is casting a wide net to find community-based innovations for near-shore fisheries based on proven successes. A first place project grant of $20,000 is on the line; the opportunity to land a video on National Geographic’s The Ocean website; a special event held in Washington, D.C. to honor the winning innovation; access to a global network of community fisheries and conservation leaders; and the chance for Rare and others to help you replicate your success around the world to start turning the tide for coastal communities and marine ecosystems.
Contact Us. Sharks' Virus Killer Could Cure Humans, Study Suggests. Sharks aren't just tough on the outside—a substance in their bodies can stop viruses in their tracks, a new study says.
A cholesterol-like compound found in dogfish sharks' tissue has been shown to combat several viruses that cause hard-to-treat human diseases, such as dengue fever and hepatitis, a new study says. (Take a quiz on infectious diseases.) Called squalamine, the compound is already in human clinical trials for cancer and eye disorders, and several hundred people have been exposed without major side effects. The new study revealed that squalamine can also disrupt a virus's life cycle and prevent it from replicating in both tissue cultures and live animals.
Though there are plenty of drugs to treat bacterial infections, there are few pharmaceuticals that are effective against viruses. (See "New Drug Cures Multiple Viruses in Human Cells. ") "It's a whole new approach to treatment of viral disease," said study leader Michael Zasloff, of the Georgetown University Medical Center. The Ocean.