PORTLAND, Maine — Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation’s lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster "ghost traps." Lost over the ...

Abandoned “ghost traps” scattered in South Florida’s coastal waters keep doing their lethal work, sometimes for years, ensnaring and often killing lobsters, stone crabs and other marine life. Crews of ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Biscayne Bay is in crisis, and it’s all hands on deck to save it. Recent extreme temperatures, with heat indexes reaching well over 100 degrees, only underscore the urgency.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Derelict ghost traps are putting sea creatures in danger. These are fishing traps for lobsters and crab that are abandoned. A dolphin in Clearwater was trapped and injured in a ...