The US Coast Guard has successfully completed a controlled burn of a portion of the oil slick off the Gulf Coast.

Fisherman and seafaring residents of the Louisiana shoreline despair as a vast oil slick approaches.

Questions are sure to be raised about a self-policing system that trusted a commercial oil operator to take care of its own mishap.

Everyone likes a bit of pampering now and again - and sharks and manta rays are no exception.

Hawkes Bay coastal residents are allowed to return home after high waves prompted evacuations.

Something is holding down the herring population of Alaska's Prince William Sound, and marine scientists are tailing some rather large suspects: humpback whales.

The NZ Government has called for restraint after an anti-whaling protest vessel and Japanese harpoon ship collided in Antarctica yesterday.

The crew of a NZ trimaran harassing Japanese whalers have been rescued after a collision between their boat and a Japanese ship.

Our closest relatives in the animal world, chimpanzees and orangutans, have long been known to use tools. But octopuses?