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The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program announced today the funding of 15 grants totaling more than $2.2 million through the jointly managed Coral Reef Conservation Fund (Coral Fund). The grants will help prevent further negative impacts to coral reefs by educating local communities and improving management effectiveness.

U.S. commercial and recreational fishing generated more than $185 billion in sales and supported more than two million jobs in 2006, according to a new economic report released by NOAA’s Fisheries Service. The commercial fishing industry — harvesters, seafood processors and...

One of the “pumps” contributing to the ocean’s global circulation suddenly switched on again last winter for the first time this decade, scientists reported Tuesday (Dec. 23) in Nature Geoscience. The finding surprised scientists, who had been wondering if global...

A larger facility to focus on Great Lakes issues opened today following a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) in Pittsfield Township, Mich.

Underwater Photography Magazine Issue 46 is now available for free download. The issue contains travel and product news relating to underwater photography as well as feature articles including FX for Nikonians by Alexander Mustard, Tamron 70-200mm Macro Lens by James Wiseman, The Underwater “Golden Hour” by Don Silcock, Life in the middle of the Atlantic by Andre Seale, Palau by Open Road by Tim Rock, Horseshoes and Dragons by Mark Webster, Kona: The Big Island by Michael Wicks, Doggone Dugong by Mark Webster, Mantas of the Maldives by Julian Cohen.

UWP Magazine is a free PDF magazine, published every two months.

Economists use leading indicators — the drivers of economic performance – to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of...