Daily nesting reports from the Texas coast and Padre Island National Seashore. Three endangered sea turtle species - the critically endangered Kemp's ridley and threatened loggerhead and green - return...
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Header photo: A surface mooring deployed by the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Credit: Sheri N. White © WHOI, Image from work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative….
Today is World Oceans Day, and it comes at a pivotal moment for ocean wildlife. The deep blue produces every other breath we take, supports countless species and connects communities across…
By Jessica Garces, SPAWN Habitat Restoration Intern Historically in West Marin, “monarch butterflies have been noted in huge beautiful numbers at “butterfly trees” in Bolinas and Stinson Beach since the…
By Sierra LeTourneau, SPAWN Salmonid Monitoring Intern Header photo of a happy SPAWN Nursery-grown lupine at Chicken Ranch Beach in Tomales Bay, California. In honor of Endangered Species day, which…
Header photo credit: NOAA.
Header photo credit: NOAA.
Rising Pacific Ocean temperatures are triggering a federal legal requirement, triggered by litigation by Turtle Island (TIRN) and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to close a large stretch of Southern…
For over 400 million years, many species of sharks have played critical roles in maintaining ocean ecosystems. Today, there are over 500 shark species, and their function in the ocean…
The Gulf of Mexico is home to one of the rarest whales on Earth — the critically endangered Rice’s whale. Found nowhere else in the world, this magnificent species…