Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have already leveraged the vast troves of geolocation data from vessel-tracking systems to pinpoint where whales and other large marine species ...

Project hoped to support recovery of threatened species and deliver wider benefits for people and marine environment ...

Marine heat waves (MHWs) are periods of unusually warm sea temperatures, recognized as one of the fastest emerging ...

Scientists identify a new marine fungus that attacks toxic algae, offering insight into natural controls on blooms that ...

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The Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that coastal marine ecosystems have legal rights that must be protected, potentially requiring stricter limits on human activities like industrial fishing.

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

The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California. Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...