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With U.S. fisheries reeling from climate change and other threats, marine protected areas—especially highly and fully protected MPAs—are powerful tools to rebuild, protect, and sustain fisheries and ...

Protected areas are widely considered essential for biodiversity conservation. However, few global studies have demonstrated that protection benefits a broad range of species. Here, using a new global ...

To find out if marine protected areas achieve their environmental and socioeconomic goals, we read 42 scientific studies and talked to seven experts. Overall, marine protected areas do appear to help ...

The president-elect has vowed to end a program that allows thousands of people from troubled nations to stay in the United States. By Miriam Jordan and Hamed Aleaziz President-elect Donald J. Trump ...

This story was produced in partnership with the National Geographic Society. This week a United Nations working group responded to a joint statement posted online in December by some of the world’s ...