For more than half a century, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has played a crucial role in safeguarding marine mammals from myriad threats—from entanglement in fishing gear to human-caused ...

For animals and those who care about their welfare, the outlook in our nation’s capital is bleak. In January, the second Trump administration and majority leadership in the 119 th Congress assumed ...

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A St. Petersburg lawmaker is trying to slam the door on Florida’s tiny but controversial trade in federally protected sea life after a viral video showed a giant manta ray hauled out of the Gulf off ...

Keeping people from harassing sea lions and seals at La Jolla Cove is an ongoing challenge for San Diego city park rangers. On Sunday, a family visiting from China went too far with children ...

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 ...

Ferry advocates had been hoping that expanded authority to create passenger ferry districts could allow them to supplement state ferry service in more areas. But changes to the bill in the state ...

On Thursday, the Trump administration rescinded the central scientific finding that underpins much of the nation's climate pollution rules, its most aggressive action yet to halt initiatives that ...

The Trump administration delivered a deadly blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules that revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution ...

This story is part of a collaborative legislative initiative by WyoFile, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, The Sheridan Press and Jackson Hole News&Guide to deliver comprehensive coverage of Wyoming’s 2026 ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Malaysia has been ranked third among Asean countries in the 2025 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), trailing behind Singapore and Brunei. Released today by Transparency ...