Environment

Lee Crockett's “Overfishing 101” blog provided an authoritative primer on federal fisheries policy. It also spotlighted historic milestones and celebrated success stories. His new series, “The Bottom Line,” will continue to explore fisheries management issues, while taking on other related subjects to provide a more in-depth look at the issues facing our ocean... Read More

A Pacific seabird die-off highlights the fact that the ocean food web is not static. Read More

Gold Butte—tucked between the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Arizona and Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada—is named for the historic mining town of the early 1900s. However, this piece of the Mojave Desert is much more than the scattered remnants of early mining. It is 350,000 acres of mountains, Joshua trees and Mojave yucca forests, panels of petroglyphs, and... Read More

On Jan. 27, 2015, President Barack Obama removed 9.8 million acres of ecologically valuable Arctic marine waters from future oil and gas leasing through the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. These areas have especially rich productivity, biodiversity, and resilience, and they support large concentrations of remarkable wildlife. Read More

Lee Crockett's “Overfishing 101” blog provided an authoritative primer on federal fisheries policy. It also spotlighted historic milestones and celebrated success stories. His new series, “The Bottom Line,” will continue to explore fisheries management issues, while taking on other related subjects to provide a more in-depth look at the issues facing our ocean... Read More

Bob and Sally Kurz have shared a deep passion for fishing throughout their 47-year marriage. Bob’s career as a naval officer enabled the couple to fish the ocean from Guam to Norfolk, Virginia. Read More

Monitoring and enforcement of marine reserves can be challenging in remote parts of the world, where many of the last near-pristine waters are found. To help meet this challenge, The Pew Charitable Trusts has partnered with Satellite Applications Catapult, a U.K. government initiative created to help foster economic growth through the exploitation of space. Together, they have pioneered a system... Read More

Over 40 percent of commercially important fish species are caught both in coastal waters and on the high seas. As a result, overexploitation of marine life on the high seas will ultimately reduce catches along the coasts and degrade coastal food webs and ecosystems. And any harm to coastal fisheries can have significant implications for food security. Read More

The Kermadec region supports a unique mix of temperate, subtropical and tropical marine fish species. Many of these are at the northern or southern limits of their ranges, and many use the area as a migratory corridor between tropical waters and mainland New Zealand. The Kermadec Islands also act as stepping stones in dispersing the larvae of tropical and subtropical fishes southwards to northern... Read More

A Pacific seabird die-off highlights the fact that the ocean food web is not static. Read More

Gold Butte—tucked between the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Arizona and Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada—is named for the historic mining town of the early 1900s. However, this piece of the Mojave Desert is much more than the scattered remnants of early mining. It is 350,000 acres of mountains, Joshua trees and Mojave yucca forests, panels of petroglyphs, and... Read More

It took a decade of deliberation, many hours of talks, and one late night huddled in a basement meeting room at the United Nations in New York, but in the early morning of Jan. 24, members of a working group set up to make recommendations to the U.N. General Assembly reached a consensus. Read More

In mid-January, I attended the first conference on Arctic fisheries ever held in China, along with 50 Arctic experts from Canada, China, Iceland, Greenland, Russia, and the United States. Read More

On Jan. 27, 2015, President Barack Obama removed 9.8 million acres of ecologically valuable Arctic marine waters from future oil and gas leasing through the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. These areas have especially rich productivity, biodiversity, and resilience, and they support large concentrations of remarkable wildlife. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts launched groundbreaking technology that will help authorities monitor, detect, and respond to illicit fishing activity across the world’s oceans. Project Eyes on the Seas, as the system is known, furthers a long-term effort by Pew to dramatically reduce illegal or “pirate” fishing. Read More

The author, Dr. Rodolfo Werner, is a marine biologist and wildlife conservationist who has devoted his professional career to the study and conservation of the Patagonian Sea, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica. For the past 12 years, he has focused his work on Antarctic marine conservation. Werner is an adviser to the Antarctic Southern Ocean Coalition and The Pew Charitable Trusts on such... Read More

Everywhere we go, we find new species," says Les Watling, Ph.D., an expert on corals. Fragile, slow-growing corals abound in deep canyons and along the edges of the continental shelf off the U.S. Atlantic coast. Read More

Nestled between Amundsen Gulf and the mouth of the Hornaday River, Darnley Bay is one of the most important ecological and cultural regions in Canada's western Arctic. Read More