Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper ...

New research shows strict marine protections reduce illegal fishing. Satellites and AI help enforce the rules.

Illegal fishing is a global problem that threatens the health of ocean ecosystems and the very economic viability of the fishing industry. Marine ...

After applying artificial intelligence methods applied to satellite data, the researchers showed that marine protected areas ...

David Attenborough’s new documentary reveals a critical need to protect marine life – or risk losing everything, writes JASON BANNIER.

California established a network of marine protected areas. MPAs cover roughly 16% of California’s state waters. A long, reddish and black sheephead wove through a maze of towering kelp in a ...

National parks, such as Abrolhos and Fernando de Noronha, are highly protected, while others, such as some APAs [environmental protection areas], allow some degree of human intervention.

Earth’s coral reefs, dubbed “rainforests of the sea” for their rich marine life, are becoming underwater ghost towns. In Madagascar’s Bay of Ranobe, for example, where 90% of the reef has ...

Science New Research Finds Most of the World’s Largest Marine Protected Areas Have Inadequate Protections In a setback to efforts to conserve 30 percent of the ocean by 2030, a third of the ...

The regional assembly of Portugal's Azores Islands approved the creation of the largest protected marine area in the North Atlantic to reach international conservation goals well ahead of time.