The countries of the world agreed: Our planet needs more protection from human activity. And with the globe facing an assortment of environmental crises, they realized the plan needed to be ambitious.

Off the coast of Nova Scotia, the Gully—a vast underwater canyon—has become a safe haven for endangered northern bottlenose ...

NICE, France (AP) — The third U.N. Ocean Conference opened Monday as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea. “The fight for the ocean is at the heart ...

Four researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were awarded a collective $1 million in funding to study topics ranging from saltwater bass ...

Marine protected areas are parts of the ocean that are managed to protect habitat and species. Oregon State University researchers led the effort to create The MPA Guide, a tool to help people around ...

The following is a release from three Native American tribes in Humboldt County: Three Federally recognized California Tribal Nations – Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, Pulikla Tribe of Yurok People, and ...

Climate change is pushing coral reefs to the brink. A new scientific report warns that the world has already crossed its ...

The 2025 UN Ocean Conference put Marine Protected Areas at the heart of global ocean action, but global progress hinges on whether the United States steps up to lead. From June 9–13, Nice, France, ...

Expanding ocean protection could return an increase in jobs, resources and services that far outweigh the costs GLAND, Switzerland – Expanding ocean protection could return an increase in jobs, ...

If you put them together, there’s only one ocean on planet Earth. The future of that ocean will be determined at a series of upcoming policy meetings, say leaders from the United Nations Environment ...

Saltwater, the project’s inaugural track, is a mash-up of six popular songs that include ocean lyrics such as Astronaut in the Ocean by Masked Wolf, Salt Water by Ed Sheeran, the Beatles’ Octopus’s ...

President Joe Biden’s laudable Jan. 27 executive order, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,” calls for (among other things) conserving 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. In response, U ...