Wastewater pollution levels are higher inside many marine protected areas than in nearby unprotected areas, according to a ...

Many governments are leaning on marine protected areas to fight biodiversity loss. But in America, ocean protections are uneven and often weak, leading scientists to call for new strategies. Kristen ...

A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, ...

Our inshore ocean ecosystem is suffering from multiple stressors and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) could be helping us find causes and make improvements.

California’s coastline is among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and its protection the last 10 years through 124 separately designated areas has made the state a model and envy nationally ...

Protected natural areas of the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for ...

A recent study has confirmed what many coastal ecologists have long suspected but lacked the data to quantify: marine ...

Ocean fish populations have fallen dramatically in the past half-century, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. Governments have designated “marine protected areas”, where where ...

The concept of protecting marine areas from fishing and other human activities is not new. In the nonmarket economies of island nations in Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia), measures to ...

Protected areas have been the cornerstone of efforts to conserve nature for more than a century. Most countries have some form of protected areas, national parks being the best-known examples. A key ...