400-Million-Year-Old Creatures on the Brink of Extinction
Scientists took a close look at how oceanic sharks and rays are faring globally and found that these species have declined by over 70% in the last 50 years, due...
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Surfers, Conservationists Launch Campaign to Save the Ocean
One of the most important things we can do to protect the ocean from threats from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, industrial activities, and n...
Joe Biden Takes Office Embodying the Triumph of Democracy in a Winter of Peril
It’s now Biden’s job to address a raging pandemic, jump-start a stumbling economy, lead a national commitment to advance racial justice, and command the fig...
It’s Time to Get Serious about Ending Illegal Fishing
Every day, vessels engaged in illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing travel to remote and unmonitored locations to capture valuable marine species, often d...
Pinto Abalone Is Just One of a Million Doomed Species
A new report from the Endangered Species Coalition (ESC) highlights 10 wildlife species threatened with extinction because of global trade, but it might as well...
Oil and Gas Industry Halts Its Efforts to Use Seismic Blasting in the Atlantic Ocean
In rare good news, the permits that allow fossil fuel companies to use deafening airguns—which harm many marine species—will expire on November 30 and not b...