There aren't many right whales left. One man's quest to prove that bigger isn't better for the planet.
Atlantic salmon are even worse off than their Pacific cousins.
Sign up to get free environmental news updates by email. He's had lobsters on the brain lately, particularly the mystery of why hundreds of thousands of lobsters have died within the last year in Long Island Sound. In a sea of troubles. In the western end of the Sound, which separates Connecticut from Long Island's north shore, lobster landings went from historic highs in late 1997 to a nearly collapsed stock two years later. Beginning in the fall of 1999, lobster trappers in the area, off Greenwich, Norwalk, and Bridgeport, Conn., reported that from 60 to 99 percent of the market-sized lobsters showing up in their pots were dead.