Environmentalists sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday seeking to pry loose details of plans to shrink national monuments and marine areas and open protected areas to commercial fishing, energy extraction, logging and other industries.Click on the link below to read the f
The CNMI Ocean Planning Team recently kicked off a two-day meeting as part of the Pacific Islands Regional Planning Body mission toward developing a comprehensive plan for the CNMI"s coastal and marine areas. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Scientists return on Schmidt Ocean Institute"s research vessel Falkor after conducting underwater robotic dives in never before visited waters in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA).Click on the link below to read the full article.
Marine Protected Areas can potentially subsidize harvested oyster populations via larval spillover -- however, these benefits can only be realized if harvested areas contain suitable habitat for larval settlement and survival.
Greenpeace launches campaign to create "largest protected area on Earth" in the Antarctic.Click on the link below to read the full article.
Hopes of establishing a vast new marine sanctuary in pristine East Antarctica have been dashed, with a key conservation summit failing to reach an agreement as advocates called for "greater vision and ambition."Click on the link below to read the full article.
Fisheries officials call the marine national monuments unnecessary, and their boundaries are said to be under review by the Trump administration.Click on the link below to read the full article.
With 33% of national waters protected the EU Overseas spearhead efforts in global marine conservation. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Marine protected areas on the high seas could be on the horizon because of an in-progress United Nations treaty for marine life outside national waters. But are MPAs actually effective"Click on the link below to read the full article.
For three years researchers from 11 countries have been working intensively on questions about the consequences of deep-sea mining on ecosystems and environmental aspects in the 'MiningImpact' project...Click on the link below to read the full article.
