The US just tripled the size of Gulf of Mexico's largest coral sanctuary-expanding the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
The Our Ocean Conference in Panama just raised billions to protect the world's oceans—with 341 commitments worth nearly $20 billion
The internationally protected Macquarie Marshes has recovered incredibly well after years of fire, drought, and dust storms.
The White House has announced it will be protecting hundreds of thousands of nautical square miles of humpback whale habitat in the Pacific Ocean.
The Belize Maya Forest is being protected by conservationists so jaguars and others can thrive.
Because of the cold mountain weather and winding ravines, this 14-year-old boy may have been in real trouble if Max hadn't showed up.
The good Samaritans of Washington D.C. spent their time making sure that this adventurous little baby critter wouldn't get into any trouble.
Who needs a guard dog when you have Joey the squirrel to fend off crooks and thieves?
This gregarious gator wasn't afraid to take one to the head, protecting a young boy, who then, playfully, administered CPR.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a long history of being attacked for being bad for business and stifling job creation. But the Harvard Business Review says OSHA workplace inspections protect workers without overburdening employers or reducing their sales.
Endangered Woodpeckers Protected, Red-Cockaded Protection Plan
On Saturday, President Bush visited the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, to sign an Executive Order to protect America's striped bass and red drum fish populations from over-fishing.
Pushed by a chorus of 486,900 citizens, the Australian government announced Thursday their intention to create the world's largest marine reserve, a highly protected zone in the Coral Sea stretching almost 200,000 square miles -- a historic moment for ocean conservation in Australia and globally. Australia's Coral Sea, east of the Great Barrier Reef, is one of the last remaining intact tropical ocean ecosystems in the world where populations of large ocean predators - sharks, tunas, and marlin - have not been severely reduced. The waters are home to healthy coral reefs, atolls, cays, and islands that provide shelter to reef fish, sea turtles, and seabirds.
Handing down a 5-3 decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission can challenge closed-door deals that the big pharmaceutical companies make with smaller generic rivals to keep cheaper products off the market and out of drug stores.
An area the size of Wales' is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction. Welsh-born comedian Dan Mitchell is bringing people together to help protect an area of rainforest at least this size and is assembling Welsh tribes from all over the country to do it.
After five years of delay, the federal government today finally proposed to more than 739 miles of critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles on their nesting beaches along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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