Humans love the coast. But we love it to death, so much so we've destroyed valuable coastal habitat—in the case of some types of habitat, most of it has gone. When healthy, these coastal habitats help ...

On any given day between 2016 and 2019, Heather Stewart could be found snorkeling in between mangroves in the Bocas del Toro archipelago along Panama’s Caribbean coast. For years she visited these ...

ORONO, Maine — American lobsters along Maine’s coast have relocated to new habitats, while the population simultaneously shrunk in abundance and grew older, according to a new study by University of ...

The most challenging aspect of evaluating the effects of trawling and dredging on seafloor habitats is translating observed effects from experimental studies to the scale of actual fishing effort in ...

Biological diversity, or "biodiversity," refers to variability found at all levels of biology. Biodiversity is commonly broken down into three levels or types: genetic diversity, species diversity, ...

An international study has revealed new evidence to help understand the consequences of habitat loss on natural communities. An international study has revealed new evidence to help understand the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study centered on Nepal’s Chitwan National Park attempts to identify whether there’s a relationship between successful tiger conservation and ...

Fishing has a variety of effects on marine habitats and ecosystems, depending on the spatial extent of fishing, the level of fishing effort, and the type of gear. Expansion of U.S. domestic fisheries ...