It’s 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation. New legislation has presented a mandate to establish an ambitious network of marine protected areas ...

Many governments are leaning on marine protected areas to fight biodiversity loss. But in America, ocean protections are uneven and often weak, leading scientists to call for new strategies. Kristen ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a Freedom of Information Act request that aims to reveal more about the sea life-saving work impeded by Trump’s mass firings at the National ...

Graph showing that record-sized fish catch accelerates near and far from the Marine Protected Areas (MPA) near Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge about 20 years after the MPA was established.

The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic pollution, has been unsustainable fishing practices. In much of the ocean, ...

Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world’s oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper only. But some protected areas are successfully keeping illegal fishing ...

It's 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation. New legislation has presented a mandate to establish an ambitious network of marine protected areas ...