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 ...

A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its ...

Environmentally damaging fishing practices continue across Europe even in protected areas, conservation groups say. View on ...

When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...

The world’s oceans are massive and critical carbon sinks that absorb roughly one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions humans generate by burning fossil fuels and reshaping Earth’s landscape. New ...

This year, countries, including the UK and Ghana, committed to bans on the destructive practice of bottom trawling. That’s where weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor to scoop up large ...

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 ...

A ‘Matter Arising’ paper published in Nature today refutes the findings of a paper by Sala et al on the amount of CO 2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The paper made significant headlines ...

Environmental NGOs Oceana and ClientEarth are filing a lawsuit with Spain's national high court for permitting bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), a practice they claim violates EU ...

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as marine protected areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

The fishing practice of bottom trawling continues in European marine protected areas (MPAs) despite conservation concerns over its destruction of seabed habitats and indiscriminate catches. Four NGOs ...

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 ...