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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…
By Stella Little, Communications Intern Earlier this month, a man intentionally hurled a rock the size of a coconut at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal off the shores of Lahaina,…
Photo by G.P. Schmahl, TIRN’s Board Secretary and retired Superintendent of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Photo Credit: G.P. Schmahl/NOAA.
In 2019, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and Diane Wilson won the largest citizen Clean Water Act settlement in U.S. history against Formosa Plastics, which included a binding agreement to zero discharge…
The Gulf of Mexico is home to more than twenty species of threatened and endangered species. From green sea turtles to nassau grouper, and from rough cactus coral to the…