Increased ocean acidification is harmful to marine life, leading to issues such as weakening the shells and skeletons of ...

That definition was upheld 6-3 by the Supreme Court in the 1995 case Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon, ruling that it “naturally encompasses habitat modification that ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

For two years, Mote Marine has been building a new Science Education Aquarium near a mall off Interstate 75 in Southwest ...

Marine habitats are facing unprecedented threats, with 66% of coastal areas already altered and degraded. Bottom-contact fisheries, which use indiscriminate trawling, physically damage almost 5 ...

The centerpiece of the new play area is a 25-foot-tall jellyfish-shaped structure with climbing nets, handholds, slide bars, ...

Even in a small area like Norfolk Island, sharks sort out who goes where and when, showing us just how complex and flexible their ecological roles really are.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today to force the release of public records on a proposed rollback of key Endangered Species Act protections for marine ...

Fish communicate using sound, but conservation laws often ignore their voices, acoustic habitats, and behaviors.

In the waters around the uninhabited island of Gyaros in Greece's northern Cyclades, marine scientists are working to restore underwater forests of Cystoseira, a species of brown algae important ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A marine habitat restoration group called Ocean Aid 360 has collected 150,000 pounds of ghost traps from Florida waters and this month will host its first international ...

The Miami-Dade County Commission on July 1 unanimously approved legislation sponsored by Commissioner Eileen Higgins (District 5) that will dramatically streamline the permitting process for seawalls ...