Wastewater pollution levels are higher inside many marine protected areas than in nearby unprotected areas, according to a ...

Many governments are leaning on marine protected areas to fight biodiversity loss. But in America, ocean protections are uneven and often weak, leading scientists to call for new strategies. Kristen ...

Our inshore ocean ecosystem is suffering from multiple stressors and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) could be helping us find causes and make improvements.

A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, ...

An ongoing petition process with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife could shrink, expand or add new protected areas ...

California’s coastline is among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and its protection the last 10 years through 124 separately designated areas has made the state a model and envy nationally ...

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 recent study has confirmed what many coastal ecologists have long suspected but lacked the data to quantify: marine ...

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

The concept of protecting marine areas from fishing and other human activities is not new. In the nonmarket economies of island nations in Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia), measures to ...

Protected natural areas of the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for ...