Scientists find a deep-sea coral ecosystem over 100 years old, raising urgent concerns about bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €10.8 billion each year, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today. It found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide ...

Three tribal governments and an environmental organization on Thursday served notice to federal agencies that they are planning a lawsuit to block a fishing experiment along the seafloor in the ...

In its new report "Bottom Trawling: New perspectives on an old fishing practice," Fauna & Flora International (FFI) joins a collaboration of world-leading fisheries scientists and ocean experts in ...

Nation’s First Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Biodiversity Hotspot One Year After Green Bank’s Demise, Court Mulls Future of Grant-Based Climate Policy Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave ...

The Government is facing growing pressure from MPs to ban damaging activities such as bottom trawling in protected areas of England’s waters. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) said the fishing ...

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, ...

Most studies on the effects of fishing gear on the seafloor have been focused on trawl and dredge fisheries. A significant portion of the landings of finfish and shellfish from U.S. coastal waters ...

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...