President Obama on Thursday will designate the first national marine monument off the Atlantic Coast as part of a broad conservation push to fight the effects of climate change on sea life. The ...

The Trump administration is working to open some of America’s protected natural treasures to industrial fishing and oil ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that creating the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument was a needed response to dangerous climate changes, ocean dead zones and ...

A stretch of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod more than four times the size of Rhode Island has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean. President Barack Obama formally ...

Creating the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument is a needed response to dangerous climate change, oceanic dead zones and unsustainable fishing practices, President Barack Obama said ...

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This month, the Antiquities Act turned 112 years old. Originally conceived to protect Native American artifacts in the Southwest, the law has, like so many federal laws, been twisted over time by ...

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The National Audubon Society is getting involved in a lawsuit over the future of a national monument in the ocean off New England because of the area’s importance to seabirds, ...