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9 States Sue ‘Flat-Out Wrong’ Trump Administration Over Seismic Blasting in Atlantic

9 States Sue ‘Flat-Out Wrong’ Trump Administration Over Seismic Blasting in Atlantic

A coalition of attorneys general from nine states added their clout to a South Carolina-based lawsuit against the Trump administration to block seismic airgun blasting off the Atlantic coast. Democratic attorneys general from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York filed a motion on Thursday to intervene in […]

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    Help Save Creatures Great and Small on World Animal Day

    Help Save Creatures Great and Small on World Animal Day

    On World Animal Day, we celebrate all the furry, scaly, winged and finned creatures that inhabit our planet. On this international day of action, participants aim to “raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe,” according to organizers at the UK-based charity Naturewatch Foundation. The occasion was first celebrated […]

    Sharing Knowledge and Salmon Across the Bering Sea

    Sharing Knowledge and Salmon Across the Bering Sea

    By Amy McDermott At the height of the Alaskan summer, a troupe of students hiked up the middle of a shallow creek. Undergraduates and grads from the University of Washington, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Kamchatka State Technical University in eastern Russia carried handheld clickers to count the multitudes of salmon thrashing upstream to […]

    Want to Protect the Oceans? Empower Women

    Want to Protect the Oceans? Empower Women

    By Amy McDermott Picture someone fishing, and a woman probably doesn’t come to mind. Men are the face of fisheries work, even though women are its backbone in much of the world. Half of seafood workers are female. Women net fish, spear octopus, dig clams, dive for abalone and pack and process seafood, yet are […]

    For Thousands of Peruvian Families, the Road Out of Poverty Is Paved in Squid

    For Thousands of Peruvian Families, the Road Out of Poverty Is Paved in Squid

    By Allison Guy There are two ways to leave La Tortuga, a fishing town of 7,000 on the northern coast of Peru. One, a pitted gravel road, winds through a landscape of desert canyons and sun-scalded hills. The other way out of La Tortuga takes longer, but it’s more reliable. That’s the town’s secondary schools—the […]

    65 California Cities, Counties Oppose Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan

    65 California Cities, Counties Oppose Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan

    At least 65 California cities and counties have taken action opposing new fossil fuel leasing in the Pacific Ocean since President Trump proposed a massive expansion of drilling in federal waters last year. That ongoing campaign now represents communities with 21.3 million Californians—more than half the state’s population. These actions, combined with recent public opinion […]

    Forecasting Coral Disease Outbreaks Could Buy Time to Save Reefs

    Forecasting Coral Disease Outbreaks Could Buy Time to Save Reefs

    By Amy McDermott Hawaii’s knobby finger coral careened toward extinction in 2015. The species was so rare that scientists could only find a few fragments in the wild, scattered across the seabed of Oahu’s Kaneohe Bay. It might have been a familiar story. Vanishing species like Southern Resident orcas and North Atlantic right whales pile […]

    ‘Twilight Zone’ Reefs Win a Conservation Spotlight

    ‘Twilight Zone’ Reefs Win a Conservation Spotlight

    By Allison Guy In May 2016, technical divers descended 200 feet to Benham Bank, the shallowest portion of a huge underwater plateau off the Philippines’ northeast tip. As they neared the bottom, an otherworldly landscape emerged from the dim cobalt blue. Plates of coral grew one atop the other like china at a yard sale, […]

    Shark Week 2018: Interactive Map Shows How Commercial Fishing Threatens Sharks

    Shark Week 2018: Interactive Map Shows How Commercial Fishing Threatens Sharks

    As the Discovery Channel marks its 30th anniversary of Shark Week, it’s important to remember that many populations of the iconic ocean predator are under threat from human activity, especially from commercial fishing. On Monday, a new interactive map was launched to show the movements of 45 sharks tagged between 2012 and 2018. Their tracks, […]