Kelly Benoit-Bird is Senior Scientist and Science Chair at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and an alumna of the 1994 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a program ...

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and ...

An international research team led by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) with the participation of the ...

(CNN) — On a remote, crescent-shaped island ... block birds’ intestines or cause starvation, but there are also “sub-lethal” effects, Lavers said. “They don’t kill the animal instantly ...

On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded ... on the birds’ kidneys and hearts. Plastic can block birds’ intestines or cause starvation, but there are also “sub-lethal” effects, Lavers said.

a professor of wildlife ecology and physiology at the University of Rhode Island who was not involved in either study. This “phenotypic flexibility” in birds has been shown to vary according to ...