Days after taking office, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping new executive order to conserve 30% of the nation’s total land area and 30% of all waters it controls by 2030.
Akito Kawahara was snapping pictures at a scenic outlook in Hawaii when he spotted the moth equivalent of a dodo. An entomologist, Kawahara recognized the squiggly patterns on nearby plants as trails carved by leaf-mining caterpillars and lowered his camera to take a closer look.
The Nature Conservancy released the “Atlas of the Reefs of West Maui,” a comprehensive report compiling 20 years of data detailing changes in the abundance and diversity of marine life in West Maui.
Guam is featured in a game developed by NASA to help coral reefs around the world...NeMO-Net is a coral classification game that lets you embark on a virtual research vessel and travel the oceans, analyzing actual images of corals on the sea floor.
The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the federal government amid the nonprofit group’s efforts to protect Hawaii’s iiwi, one of 17 forest bird species native to the islands that’s facing extinction. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S.
The public is invited to attend NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa virtual meeting of the Sanctuary Advisory Council via Google Meet video conferencing (due to COVID restrictions and safety protocols)...Items on the agenda include updates NMSAS Condition Report, Conservation Scien
Marine protected areas (MPAs) around Oahu do not adequately protect populations of herbivorous reef fishes that eat algae on coral reefs.
The order is to conserve 30 percent of the country’s land and 30 percent of its coastal waters by 2030.
A vast redwood forest located 80 miles north of San Francisco and sprawling nearly as large as Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains has received permanent protection under a deal between a Bay Area environmental group and the property's longtime owners...The 14,838-acre prope
Three University of Guam professors and the lead of a community conservation group were awarded research grants to analyze coral reef conditions and marine life on Guam...The projects must focus on healthy coastal ecosystems, environmental literacy or workforce development in Guam, the
