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The COVID lockdown allowed study of tourism’s impact on fishes in Hawaii's Molokini crater, showing that pandemic-forced dip in visitation benefits reef fish in a high-use marine protected area.

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Researchers took advantage of the pandemic to see how thousands of snorkelers can change an ecosystem.

One of the world’s last remaining natural paradises is being damaged by the expansion of salmon farming in Chile, scientists and environmentalists have warned.

PUERTO NATALES/PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — Pristine waters, partially covered in sea ice, reflect the early morning light while a flock of flamingos basks in the warmth of the sun near the coast. A few meters away, on the mainland, stands a huge white shed with a red roof: a factory for processing salmon, completed just […]

On Dec. 6, legislators in Argentina’s southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego approved a law to permanently protect the land and sea of the Mitre Peninsula at the tip of South America, considered to be one of the region’s last wild places. The Mitre Peninsula is known to encompass Argentina’s most important carbon sink through […]

Waukegan police are investigating vandalism at Am Echod Jewish Cemetery after more than two dozen headstones were desecrated over the weekend. Police say that...

After checking his parents’ graves at the Waukegan cemetery, Alan Friedlander said: “There’s a lot of anger, a little bit of worry but mostly feeling sorry for how dark that person’s heart has to be to do that.”

The vandal who desecrated Jewish graves in Waukegan with swastikas remained unidentified and at large on Tuesday, but the latest display of antisemitism sparked a wide range of emotions, from anger to tears to outrage -- even sympathy for the hateful culprit.

The process is beginning six years after Gov. David Ige first announced the initiative to manage 30% of the state's nearshore waters by 2030.