Fisheries advocacy groups are encouraging efforts to change aspects of laws protecting marine mammals and endangered species ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key habitat for other sealife Sea otters use their agile, grippy forepaws to ...

Sea otters are North America’s smallest marine mammal, weighing just 30 to 100 pounds, but their appetites are huge. They burn calories at three times the rate expected for their size, chomping on ...

Your Oct. 19 editorial warns that canceling the Mid-Barataria and Mid-Breton erodes a hard-won coastal “consensus.” From an engineering standpoint, the opposite is true: We are restoring the ...

Republican members of Congress have introduced a new motion that would repeal a 50-year-old policy that protects marine mammals. According to the Associated Press, Congressional Republicans believe ...

PORTLAND, Maine – One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists who ...

On Sept. 2, the government of Balochistan province in Pakistan declared the country’s third marine protected area, around Miani Hor Lagoon on the country’s central coast. The biodiversity-rich lagoon ...

The world's oceans are vital for life on Earth. Drifting phytoplankton provide almost half the oxygen released into the atmosphere. Marine and coastal ecosystems provide food and protect communities ...

Human activities are now a constant feature of the marine environment and often overlap with areas that are critical for marine mammals. Shipping, fishing, ...

While college athletics leaders continue to hope for a federal solution to a wide range of issues, including NIL and player eligibility questions, they shouldn't hold their breath that one is coming ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 19 episode of “Velshi.” One of the crown jewels of the Civil Rights Movement is the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson ...