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A hogfish in the coral reefs

Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Sep 2022
A moray eel among corals

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022
A manta ray with diver.

Study paints ‘bleak picture’ for nearly all marine life without emissions cuts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2022

Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers

Basten Gokkon 10 Aug 2022

In a former conflict zone in Sri Lanka, a world rich in corals thrives

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Jul 2022

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

Basten Gokkon 15 Jul 2022
Cold water corals in the deep sea.

How will climate change impact cold-water corals? Mostly through food loss, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jun 2022

The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching — once again — and over a larger area

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Mar 2022

Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2022
Bikini Atoll coral diversity

Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2022

Vulnerable Antarctic reefs reveal wealth of life as rich as tropical corals

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Mar 2022

Jordan scrambles to save rare Red Sea corals that can withstand climate change

Marta Vidal 14 Feb 2022

‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Feb 2022

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2022

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022

‘Great Blue Wall’ aims to ward off looming threats to western Indian Ocean

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jan 2022
Great barrier reef. Image by Ayanadak123 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Restoring coastal forests can protect coral reefs against sediment runoff: Study

Aimee Gabay 7 Dec 2021
Measuring coral off the coast of East Africa. Photo credit: Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Save Our Seas Foundation

We must reverse the pressures on coral reefs before it’s too late (commentary)

David Obura, Melita Samoilys 6 Dec 2021

With coral cover halved, curbing climate change is only way to slow the loss

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Sep 2021
Atoll

The first complete map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs is here

Carolyn Cowan 8 Sep 2021
Glacier in Antarctica. Photo credit: N. Butler

Humans’ role in climate warming ‘unequivocal,’ IPCC report shows

John Cannon 9 Aug 2021

Great Barrier Reef in danger: Don’t fight the diagnosis, fight the threats (commentary)

John Tanzer 21 Jul 2021

With growing pressures, can the Philippines sustain its marine reserves?

Leilani Chavez 30 Jun 2021

New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021

Satellites keep watch over global reef health in a world first

Mongabay.com 20 May 2021

Corals are struggling, but they’re too abundant to go extinct, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Mar 2021

When seas turn rough, gleaning keeps the fish on the table for some communities

Basten Gokkon 24 Feb 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021

A hi-tech eye in the sky lays bare Hawaiʻi’s living coral reefs

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2021

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Hawaiian reefs lost almost half their fish to pollution and fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2020

‘Tamper with nature, and everyone suffers’: Q&A with ecologist Enric Sala

John Cannon 4 Sep 2020

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