An international team of scientists has made a global assessment of threats and extinction risks and found that groupers are under great threat.

Environmental NGOs leading the fight against marine litter and plastic pollution in Europe are calling on European countries to set a 50% reduction.

The new application absorbs scientific data on whales as they traverse the offshore waters and plots their general location on an easy-to-read nautical map.

WhaleALERT is an app designed to augment existing ship navigation tools informing mariners of the safest and most current information to reduce the risk of ship and right whale collisions.

Management of fisheries at the community level can help curb overfishing and the ‘tragedy of the commons’ which is driving humans to decimate the planet’s dwindling fish stocks, an international scientific team says.

Kim Ritchie, a molecular biologist at Florida's Mote Marine Laboratory, is pushing the frontiers of gene therapy.

New research using computer simulations suggests strong currents off the coast of Costa Rica may help whisk newborn leatherback turtles to a safer habitat in deep water.

Madagascar now has a roadmap for proposed one million hectare increase in marine protected areas to improve local management of coastal fisheries.

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened with extinction, according to a study by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and its partners.

An international team from the Nippon Foundation-University of British Columbia Nereus program has unveiled the first global model of life in the world’s oceans, allowing scientists and policymakers to predict – and show through 3D visualizations – the state of life in the oceans of the future.