Bursts of laughter echo from a speedboard bobbing on the turquoise Mozambique channel, miles off the west coast of Madagascar. It's a sunny morning. The only land in view is a tiny islet of white sand ...

Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing. By Karen Bakker / MIT Press Reader Published Apr 20, ...

Most of the world’s reef-building coral species are now considered endangered and 44% of corals globally are at risk of extinction, spelling trouble for nearly a quarter of the marine life that ...

Conservation groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. government officials today to stop seafood imports into the United States from eight foreign fisheries that incidentally ...

The newly designated marine reserve aims to preserve biodiversity and traditional Polynesian culture.

A new study of major U.S.-based online retailers of marine fish bound for aquariums found that nearly 90% of traded species are sourced exclusively from the wild, including a number of threatened ...

The third U.N. Ocean Conference opens Monday, with Britain's Prince William among those raising the pressure on nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea. Subscribe to read ...

Ocean fish populations have fallen dramatically in the past half-century, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. Governments have designated “marine protected areas”, where where ...

A proposal to expand and create new, no-take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Santa Cruz County that was heard at the Feb. 14–15 Fish and Game Commission meeting ...