United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean lies outside ...

The treaty will create a new body to manage ocean life conservation and establish marine protected areas in ocean regions outside national boundary waters. File photo: Fish swim near some bleached ...

What if some of the most important clues about marine biodiversity were already collected but never fully shared? That's the ...

As primary producers at the base of marine food webs, diatoms are key indicators of environmental change, providing critical ...

The Philippines is facing a choice that will define its economic future. And according to Rep. Brian Poe, that choice is ...

Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions of especially high numbers of ...

A new study paves the way to understanding biotic recovery after an ecological crisis in the Mediterranean Sea about 5.5 million years ago. Researchers have now been able to quantify how marine biota ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Marine biodiversity encompasses the full range of life in the oceans, from microscopic plankton to large megafauna, and underpins ecosystem functioning and services vital to human well-being. Patterns ...

Most ocean life remains to be discovered. Because fish and many other animals that live in the ocean often have larvae or other, microscopic life stages that drift freely in ocean water, counting ...

A new marine biodiversity centre held its grand opening in Halifax on Saturday, welcoming more than 500 visitors in the first few hours. The Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity, which is housed at ...