By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon Feb. 9--Virtually all Florida Keys waters could be declared as critical habitat for threatened staghorn and elkhorn corals under a proposal unveiled this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon Sep. 26--Federal fisheries managers have agreed to a four-month deadline to propose plans to further protect threatened staghorn and elkhorn corals.

By DAN JOLING ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A conservation organization has requested that Alaska and six other states add bodies of water to their list of impaired waterways: the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Despite an "alarming" decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.