Mexico weakens protections for the vaquita, cutting the gillnet ban area by 86%. Conservation groups warn it will hasten ...

The study finds that reliance on small-scale fishing and weak governance, leave coastal communities more vulnerable to ...

The UK has given the go ahead to the controversial Jackdaw oil and gas project in the North Sea, buckling to lobbyists and ...

The number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study has found. In 2010, a BP-operated oil well failed, dumping 134 million ...

The United States is preparing to hold the first deep-sea mining lease sale in its history, offering more than 31 million acres of seabed off American Samoa to mining companies. The Department of the ...

Seabirds in parts of the Solent have had a record breeding year, with more nesting pairs of Sandwich Terns, Black-headed Gulls, Little Terns, Ringed Plovers and Oystercatchers, and notable success for ...

Occupied chinstrap nests on Zavodovski Island have fallen by 63% since 2011, scientists say, with warming seas pushing the ...

Water companies are required to report sewage discharges within 60 minutes ensure public are aware of the polluted water ...

The world's oyster reefs could deliver $12 trillion a year in ecosystem benefits, but 90% of sites would need restoring first ...

Wild animals are not passive bystanders to climate change but active players in regulating it, according to a peer-reviewed article published this week in Global Change Biology – lending yet more ...

Two new species of sea spider have been discovered in the Salish Sea – the first to be described there in almost a century – filling a longstanding gap in scientific understanding of one of the ...

Record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires, and extreme heat have pushed seven on the nine Planetary Boundaries to their highest levels of transgression yet, according to the 2026 Planetary Health ...