Volunteers are swimming in the sea to help science conserve some of the world's rarest fish. Scuba divers and snorkelers are among those helping to identify endangered species, such as giant ...

In 2025, an international team of researchers published a study evaluating the effectiveness of an ambitious ocean conservation program California started at the end of the 20th century. The Golden ...

The ocean is home to some of the richest biodiversity on Earth. From coral reefs and mangrove forests to the deep sea, marine ...

10 years and counting for California’s network of Marine Protected Areas. California’s Marine Life Protection Act became law in 1999 and was implemented regionally from 2004 to 2012 through an ...

A marine protection method described this week proposes spreading marine protection from areas where wildlife tourism already discourages activities that damage or degrade ecosystems, like fishing or ...

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 ...

Scalloped hammerhead sharks gathering around the Galápagos offer one of the clearest marine conservation stories in the world ...

On a hot August morning, more than a dozen volunteer anglers and researchers boarded the Sea Star in Oceanside as a deckhand sliced squid for bait in preparation for an all-day fishing trip where very ...