The ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, yet more than 80% remains unexplored. Here we virtually plunge into ...

connecting the new sanctuary with the southernmost border of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. (But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association will likely have to go through the entire ...

For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity. Now, in the ...

Some advocates had originally hoped the boundaries of the sanctuary would extend north to the edges of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, past Diablo Canyon, which houses California’s ...

Other sites part of the National Marine Sanctuary System located off or along California’s coast, according to the sanctuary, are: Channel Islands Cordell Bank Greater Farallones Monterey Bay ...

Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Plans for the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary are one step closer to being finalized. The proposed sanctuary stretches more than 4,500 square ...

If the sanctuary is expanded, it will connect to the southern border of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. “After the decades-long push for this federal designation, the sanctuary ...

It will also greatly enhance habitat connectivity and migratory corridors for wildlife between Monterey Bay and Greater Farallones/Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries to the north, and Channel ...

The estuary won’t be included in the marine sanctuary boundaries, as it’s already protected by the nonprofit Morro Bay National Estuary Program. Los Osos crowds up against the Morro Bay ...

The estuary won’t be included in the marine sanctuary boundaries, as it’s already protected by the nonprofit Morro Bay National Estuary Program. Nearby, Morro Rock is “a deeply spiritual ...

A long-running effort by native tribes and environmentalists to establish the first new national marine sanctuary along California’s coastline in 32 years — the aquatic version of a new ...