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Islands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots. The impacts of invasive alien species, habitat loss and climate change are compounded in small island...
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives released a text of the draft reconciliation bill revealing Congress is on track to make the largest investment in northwest hatchery...
By Mark L. Friedman 18-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke on Nov. 8 at the rally of 100,000 in Glasgow organized by Fridays for Future,...
It is commonly known as the fried egg jellyfish, and no other name would have been more appropriate. It has a dark yellow cupola on top...
Concerns have been building since bigeye tuna was formally declared overfished by scientists of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in 2015....
By Tonya Wiley The world’s sawfishes are rightfully once again in the global conservation spotlight as a new analysis published in the journal Current Biology highlights...
New Rule Points to More Promising Future for “Ropeless” Fishing to help save Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales Danielle Kessler, US Country Director for the International...
By Dr. Rob Moir Pummeled by rising sea levels, extreme weather events and increasing ocean acidity, headlines tell of climate change giving the ocean another punch....
The conservation organizations Wild Fish Conservancy and The Conservation Angler filed suit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for its repeated refusal to follow...
A groundbreaking new ruling from the federal court in Seattle is calling into question the continuation of decades of unsustainable commercial salmon harvest in Southeast Alaska,...