As wildlife tourism grows, scientists are asking a bigger question: can we bring people closer to nature without reshaping the ecosystems they came to see?

Many mitigation and adaptation efforts are underway. Scientists issue warning after making alarming discovery beneath ocean's surface: 'Deeply concerning' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Forest to coast. Coast to reef. Reef to ocean. Ocean back to land. It is the chain of life in motion, each link depending on ...

The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental review for mining the fragile ecosystem.

New Zealand's earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine ...

Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral reef system off the coast of Argentina that may be one of the largest on ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

La Jolla and Point Loma are home to the largest giant kelp forests on the West Coast, but those golden underwater forests are shrinking as ocean temperatures rise. A new study from Scripps Institution ...

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Scientists have discovered a newly identified marine fungus that can infect and kill toxic algae responsible for harmful ...

The understanding of jellyfish ecology has broadened considerably in recent years, reshaping our perceptions of marine ecosystems. Once deemed trophic dead ends with minimal influence, jellyfish are ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. There is broad recognition that the oceans and their living resources are under stress ...