Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have already leveraged the vast troves of geolocation data from ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers show how vessel-tracking data mirrored tuna roaming beyond their typical territory due to unusually ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine invertebrates can accurately reflect the functional diversity of past ecosystems ...

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Decades of inaction responding to rapidly increasing carbon emissions, industrial overfishing, point source contamination, and similar compounding pressures on our planet’s oceans have begun obvious, ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Marine Protection Department has spotted a violation involving the hunting of ...

The vast majority of the ocean remains unexplored but researchers are racing to change that. They believe water-based organisms can advance healthcare and address the climate crisis. But balancing ...

Protected marine areas are one of the essential tools for the conservation of natural resources affected by human impact -- mainly fishing --, but, are they enough to recover the functioning of these ...

This study introduces the concept of fishing fleets as "ecosystem sentinels," which are living sensors that indicate changing ...