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Calls grow to put the brakes on deep-sea mining as countries discuss rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Jul 2023
A puffin with a beakful of sand eels. Dogger Bank has a unique biodiverse ecosystem rich in sand eels that supports North Sea food webs, including seabird populations. Image by Steve Higgins via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

How to ‘flip’ a paper park: Success in the North Sea carries lessons

Edward Carver 11 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
Wandering albatross on Marion Island.

S. Africa to purge bird-eating mice from key albatross breeding island

Leonie Joubert 5 Jul 2023
Baobabs at sunset in Madagascar.

Fire imperils Madagascar’s baobabs: Q&A with park director Diamondra Andriambololona

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 3 Jul 2023
A washed-up egg case of a ray.

Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches

Michelle Carrere 30 Jun 2023

Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly 29 tons from 10,000 sharks seized

Karla Mendes 29 Jun 2023
Fishers in Marshall

Can an app help Liberian artisanal fishers fight illegal fishing?

Edward Blamo 12 Jun 2023
Coral reef, ocean, mangroves, and forest.

New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Jun 2023
A purple sea cucumber.

Europe’s top science panel supports call for moratorium on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Jun 2023
L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Jun 2023

Illegal fishing for fish meal widespread in Ecuador marine reserve

Yalilé Loaiza 6 Jun 2023
Yellowfin tuna catch laid out on leaves.

As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others

Malavika Vyawahare 29 May 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023

Argentines try to stop oil and gas exploration off ‘The Happy’ tourist coast

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 25 May 2023

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera, Davide Mancini, Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023

The Mexican family who gave up fishing to monitor and rescue sea turtles

Astrid Arellano 9 May 2023
Graine de Vie’s reforestation site in Ambohitantely prior to the October 2022 fire.

Madagascar bush fires prompt exasperated NGO to curtail tree planting

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 1 May 2023

Colombia: Scientists explore remote seamounts to protect hammerhead sharks

Tatiana Rojas Hernández 28 Apr 2023

Madagascar: What happens to villagers when a graphite mine comes knocking?

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Apr 2023

Home to rare corals, a Chilean fjord declines in spite of protection

Barinia Montoya 21 Apr 2023

Norway proposes opening Germany-sized area of its continental shelf to deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2023
A researcher takes an ultrasound reading from a whale shark.

Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Apr 2023

Maps of sharks’ journeys show marine protected areas alone won’t save them

Michelle Carrere 5 Apr 2023

Deep-sea mining meeting closes without resolving whether mining can start in July

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
A manta ray.

‘Manta grid’ provides a ray of hope against industrial bycatch threat

Edward Carver 27 Mar 2023
Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) caught in Italy.

Can we control marine invaders by eating them?

Guia Baggi 23 Mar 2023
Dutch windmills in Zaanse Schans, Zaanstad.

Sea level rise looms, even for the best-prepared country on Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Mar 2023

New MPA Tic-Toc Golfo Corcovado a safe haven for blue whales in Chile

Michelle Carrere 21 Mar 2023
A silky shark.

As U.N. members clinch historic high seas biodiversity treaty, what’s in it?

Elizabeth Fitt 8 Mar 2023

Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

Edward Carver 7 Mar 2023

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