Marine protected areas (MPAs) are well known for protecting biodiversity, but their effects on people who use the oceans are debated.

Alyson Brown, a student at the Atlantic Veterinary College, will spend the summer working on a research project investigating the impact of accelerated climate change on Atlantic salmon aquaculture in Atlantic Canada.

A collaborative approach involving various levels of government and regional experts is needed to better understand, and protect, Saskatoon’s Swale ecosystems.

Researchers who took a closer look at a 1995 tsunami in the Gulf of Elat-Aqaba, at the northeastern tip of the Red Sea, say that the gulf’s surrounding countries should prepare for future tsunami hazards in the economically developing vital region.

Water is so commonplace that we often take it for granted.

Dr. Brynn Devine is starting the next chapter in her fisheries science career.

Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America.

Rarely does mention of the pharmaceutical industry conjure up images of smoke stacks, pollution and environmental damage.

NOAA Fisheries is sharpening our focus on engaging recreational fishermen where they live and fish.

In the 1950s, Russian academician Vladimir Kunin, one of the founders of the Institute of Water Problems in Moscow and the Institute of Deserts in Ashkhabad, discovered and described fresh water lenses in the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan.