The report puts global marine protection coverage at 10.01%, surpassing a long-standing target originally set for 2020 under the Aichi Biodiversity ...

More than 10% of the world's oceans have been formally designated as protected areas for the first time, according to a joint ...

For a realm that covers most of the planet, the ocean attracts a modest share of charitable attention. In philanthropic terms ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Oman, a nation defined by its deep maritime heritage and more than 3,000 kilometres of coastline, this global target is ...

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 ...

Four researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography earned state grants to study how climate change is shifting conditions on the Pacific Coast, from crumbling cliffs to vibrant tide pools.

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 ...