In an exciting discovery during a habitat survey, an Aquarium of the Pacific staff member discovered and helped to identify an endangered white abalone for the first time in five years in the Channel ...

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill

Lawmakers should block an administration decision to exempt Gulf drilling from the Endangered Species Act.

Since 2016, sea ice levels have dramatically declined. Thousands of chicks have frozen or drowned, the wildlife fund said.

President is convening so-called ‘God squad’ to override provisions of Endangered Species Act for ‘national security’

If offshore drilling expands according to a federal plan, it could cause 4,232 oil spills over the next few decades.

The decision comes as Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office enters the case.

The schedule of lease sales proposed Thursday would allow new oil and gas drilling near California and Florida.

They also said the Trump administration has not used a transparent process for getting input from the public.

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Actress and activist Julia Louis-Dreyfus is fighting to block new oil drilling in Santa Barbara in the wake of a massive 2015 spill.

Die-off has affected the health of kelp forests and sparked years of scientific detective work

A group of oil-producing nations could derail efforts to strike a deal tackling plastic pollution at the source.

Congress is working on a proposal that would gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act and erase legal protections for dolphins, otters, seals and whales.

Environmentalists filed a revised lawsuit Monday contending that federal assessments of oil and gas projects fail to meet Endangered Species Act standards.

Alaska’s congressman has proposed a truly heartless piece of legislation that would gut the remarkably successful Marine Mammal Protection Act.

The 9th Circuit uphold a lower court ruling and said the agency was reasonable in rejecting delisting of ringed seals.

The gray whale was up against rocks along Point Isabel in Richmond.

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work is being hit hard, explains this guest columnist.

The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration and Florida of failing to conduct environmental analyses for the migrant detention center in the Everglades.

Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

With thousands of unplugged wells and platforms overdue for decommission, environmental groups seek ways to limit offshore drilling expansion.