Elizabeth Claire Alberts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts

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Elizabeth C. Alberts is a staff writer for Mongabay. For updates on her work, follow her on Twitter via @ECAlberts.

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A blacktip reef shark swims among smaller fish

Several reef sharks at greater threat of extinction than thought, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 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
Gray reef sharks at Fakarava atoll, French Polynesia.

Expedition to Pacific ecosystems hopes to learn from their resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 May 2023
A bowhead mother and calf in the Arctic Ocean.

Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 May 2023
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs in the U.S.

Studies show oyster reef restoration can work out well — given enough time

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2023
An Atlantic puffin inspecting a decoy

Seabird conservation mostly works, comprehensive new data set shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 May 2023

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023

Seafloor life abounds around hydrothermal vents hot enough to melt lead

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
Coral Reef at Marsa Gozlani site, Sharm el Shekh, Egypt

Global Ocean Census aims to find 100,000 marine species in 10 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2023
Partula snail reintroductions organized by London Zoo

‘Extinct’ snails return to Tahiti in largest wildlife reintroduction ever

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Apr 2023
California sea lions swimming in a giant kelp forest.

Kelp forests contribute $500 billion to global economy, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Apr 2023

Parasites of the Caribbean: Study pinpoints cause of sea urchin die-off

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Apr 2023

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2023
Farah Obaidullah holds a fish on a fishing boat.

Bringing the ocean’s vast ‘awesomeness’ to light: Q&A with Farah Obaidullah

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2023

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
Birds flying through wind turbines.

What’s black and white and spins? Wind turbines that don’t kill birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
A weedy seadragon.

As oceans warm, temperate reef species edge closer to extinction, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2023
A swimming cougar in British Columbia.

Island-hopping cougars redraw boundaries of big cats’ potential range

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 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

Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Mar 2023

‘Plasticosis’: the new disease killing seabirds and likely many other species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2023

Panama ocean conference draws $20 billion, marine biodiversity commitments

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Mar 2023
A Peruvian diving petrel in flight.

After decades away, rare Peruvian seabird nests on island freed of invaders

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Mar 2023
Nautilus vitiensis (left) and Nautilus samoaensis.

‘They’re everywhere out there’: Three new nautilus species described

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Feb 2023
A pod of humpback whales.

Potential impact on whales overlooked as deep-sea mining looks set to start, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Feb 2023
Rivers of metlwater on Greenland's ice sheet

‘Not a good sign’: Study shows Greenland temperatures at 1,000-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2023
A southern stingray.

Good fisheries management, if enforced, can help sharks and rays recover

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Feb 2023

An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2023
North Atlantic right whale mother and calf.

U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jan 2023
Thai reefer Precious 9.

Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2023
A puffin flying.

For threatened seabirds of NE Atlantic, climate change piles on the pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jan 2023

Island conservation should focus on land-sea links for most impact, paper says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2023

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