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This plant is classified as a halophyte, or capable of surviving in high-salinity environments. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Indonesia, a coastal vine used as medicine now signals ecological decline

Christopel Paino 9 Apr 2026
Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran).

Migratory species summit adopts new marine protections amid extinction warnings

Francesco De Augustinis 8 Apr 2026
Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium), a tiny and endangered subspecies of white-tailed deer, walk along mangroves in Big Pine Key, Florida. Image courtes of AP Photo/Lynne Sladky.

Green and gray: Mangroves and dikes show potential in protecting shorelines together

Claudia Geib 2 Apr 2026

State fishing village plan in Indonesian Papua sparks Indigenous opposition

Basten Gokkon 1 Apr 2026
Cymodocea nodosa seagrass in Spain, also known as Little Neptune grass. Restoring and protecting seagrass can have climate and coastal protection benefits. Image courtesy of Liam McGuire/Ocean Image Bank.

The underwater meadows that help keep beaches from disappearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2026
Patagonian octopus eggs in Puerto Lobos Protected Natural Area in Argentina. Image courtesy of Martin Brogger.

Baby octopus in Argentina: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 31 Mar 2026
Fish on a beach in New Ireland province. Image ©Sebastian Velasquez.

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

John Cannon 20 Mar 2026
Emperor penguins rely heavily on sea ice and are estimated to lose 98% of their colonies by 2100 if sea ice continues to decline.

Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Mar 2026
Seagrass meadows are also important foraging grounds for many marine species, including green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Image courtesy of Michele Roux/Ocean Image Bank.

Why saving seagrass meadows could help save the world’s coastlines

Sean Mowbray 12 Mar 2026
Corals in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Reefs in Florida and elsewhere in the world face many threats including heat waves (which causes coral bleaching), diseases like stony coral tissue loss disease, invasive species, pollution, physical damage and more.

If Florida reefs aren’t protected, storms will increase flooding & costs: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Mar 2026
Close-up shot of a bale of compressed plastic waste.

Plastic, from home and abroad, spills into Türkiye’s waters

Guia Baggi, Utku Kuran 11 Mar 2026
UC Santa Cruz researcher in Hazmat suit taking nasal sample from elephant seal pup, Ano Nuevo State Park, California, USA.

Avian flu strikes California’s northern elephant seals; area quarantined

Christine Heinrichs 27 Feb 2026
A mud crab (Scylla serrata) Image by titi-uu via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming

Asha Bekidusa 11 Feb 2026
Seatrees and project partner COBEC with local community members in Marereni, Kenya.

How intermediaries are reshaping mangrove restoration

Marina Martinez 6 Feb 2026
Seagrass in Malaysia

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2026
Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

A ‘new baseline’: Study captures accelerating sea-level rise in Africa

Edward Carver 30 Jan 2026

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026
The fish-eating bat has been recorded on more than 45 islands in the Gulf of California. Isla Partida Norte is home to the largest known colony of the species. Image courtesy of José Juan Flores Martínez.

Up close with Mexico’s fish-eating bats: Interview with researcher José Juan Flores Martínez

Astrid Arellano 31 Dec 2025
Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), photographed in Yonaguni, Japan.

Top ocean news stories of 2025 (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana Spalding, Erin Skoczylas, Vanessa Constant 24 Dec 2025

As Cyclone Ditwah battered land, Sri Lanka’s oceans absorbed a silent shock

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Dec 2025
Three locals observing the ruins of their former warung.

Photos: Tourism ambitions clash with local livelihoods on Indonesia’s Lombok Island

Helena Ureta 23 Dec 2025

A flood of logs post-Cyclone Senyar leaves Padang fishers out of work

Jaka Hendra Baittri 20 Dec 2025

As storms surge & the sea rises, Belgium builds dunes for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Dec 2025
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

Marine heat waves and raw sewage combine to put human health at risk

Sean Mowbray 18 Dec 2025
Mangroves within the Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve.

As fish catches fall and seas rise, Douala’s residents join efforts to restore mangroves

Ngala Chimtom 11 Dec 2025
Paraiso Mangrove Eco Learning Park, Tacloban City.

Philippine mangroves survived a typhoon, but now confront a human-made challenge

Keith Anthony Fabro 4 Dec 2025
Batasan Island in Danajon Bank, the only double barrier reef in the Philippines and one of only three in the Indo-Pacific region, is sinking as a result of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Bohol province in 2013.

Filipinos wade through floodwaters due to sinking land, rising sea & corruption

Jewel S. Cabrera 4 Dec 2025

Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to save the choro mussel in Chile

Barinia Montoya 1 Dec 2025

COP30: What did it deliver for the ocean?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2025
A coral grouper in a Mozambique coral reef.

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique

Victoria Schneider 18 Nov 2025
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs

Edward Carver 10 Nov 2025

Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2025

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