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Following the shipwreck, plastic pellets, also known as nurdles, began washing up along Kerala’s southern beaches.

Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India

Max Martin 9 Jul 2025

Out-of-range albatross makes a highlight in the revival of seabird watching in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jul 2025
Small islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler. 

Listings of Indonesian islands renew fears of privatization for coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 8 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025
Emmanuel Gona, a fisherman and community scout from Muyu wa Kae village in Marereni, believes that conserving and restoring mangrove ecosystems is key to boosting fish populations.

A Kenya marine biodiversity credit program restores mangroves — and livelihoods

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 1 Jul 2025

As a fishing port rises in Kenya, locals see threats to sea life, livelihoods

Anthony Langat 23 Jun 2025
Coral reef in Vietnam.

Major coral loss in Vietnam’s first marine protected area: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 20 Jun 2025
Industrial trawlers and small-scale fishers compete for space near the port of Dakar in Senegal.

UN Ocean Conference makes progress on protecting marine waters

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2025

Twin ship disasters in India threaten widespread pollution on Sri Lankan coasts

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2025
Abundant in the Sargasso Sea (above), sargassum has been blossoming in the Caribbean and on the Amazon shore.

New study dismisses Amazon River runoff as primary cause of sargassum blooms

Julian Reingold 11 Jun 2025
A snapper hunting silver fish in a mangrove patch.

One-two punch for mangroves as seas rise and cyclones intensify

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Jun 2025
Fish in Samoa.

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

Claire Turrell 4 Jun 2025
Student from Gales Point primary school planting mangrove seedlings inside bamboo tube.

From local planting to national plan, Belize bets on mangrove recovery

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2025
Asian small-clawed otter

DNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2025
Marine invertebrates collected by researchers at a private marina near Los Angeles in 2023

The blobby little sea squirt that stowed away across the Pacific to California

Maya L. Kapoor 23 May 2025

West Sulawesi erupts in protest over sand mining for Indonesia’s new capital

Wahyu Chandra 22 May 2025
NC State PhD student Bethany Wager catching and tagging a False Albacore for The Albie Project. Image courtesy of American Saltwater Guides Association.

Angling for answers, this saltwater fishing group boosts research for better conservation

Erik Hoffner 12 May 2025

There’s something fishy about ‘blue economy’ proposals for sustainable marine management (commentary)

Philippa Louey 9 May 2025
Split shot in the waters of San Benedicto, Mexico. Credit: Enric Sala/National Geographic Pristine Seas

Protecting coastal waters may be the best investment you’ve never heard of, says Kristin Rechberger

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2025
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).

‘We belong to one ocean’: Indigenous leaders push for seat at the table of high seas biodiversity treaty

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Apr 2025
The 14 women who make up Las Chelemeras.

‘It has been worth it’: The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves

Astrid Arellano 25 Apr 2025
Ahmed Albaaj of the U.N. World Food Programme planting a mangrove in Basra.

Mangroves mount a fragile green revival in Iraq’s toxic south

Robert Bociaga 21 Apr 2025

Award-winning film highlights lasting damage from X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025

As Acapulco’s mangroves disappear, Mexico takes strides to protect its coastal forests

Gonzalo Ortuño López 8 Apr 2025
Beach morning glory in Texas.

Bangladesh witnesses coastal erosion, salinization as tourism crushes a flowering creeper

Khadijatul Kobra 8 Apr 2025
The families of fishers gather on Jan. 3 for a communal meal provided by the Talara Fishermen’s Guild.

Peruvian fishers sue for additional compensation after big December oil spill

Miguel Ángel Valero, Sandra Incio 2 Apr 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025
A fisherman repairs his boat on a beach in Soomar Goth, Karachi.

In Pakistan, sea level rise & displacement follow fisherfolk wherever they go

Waqas Alam Angaria 28 Mar 2025

Sri Lanka communities left gasping for climate mitigation support

Sahana David Menon 18 Mar 2025

Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

Irfan Maulana, M Ambari 3 Mar 2025
A researcher notes biomass measurements in a mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Mangrove deforestation for commodities limits conservation funding in SE Asia

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2025

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