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During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
A coho salmon spawning.

Spamming streams with hatchery salmon can disrupt ecosystems, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 9 May 2023
Victor Emata, a SEAMANCOR-trained tour guide, rowing a boat.

A Philippine town and its leaders show how mangrove restoration can succeed

Mavic Conde 4 May 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023

Meet the ‘forest fishers’ restoring mangroves and livelihoods in Mexico

Flavia Morales 3 May 2023
The Amazon River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises

Sarah Brown 28 Apr 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023
House on stilts built illegally in the Lowé mangrove in Libreville, Gabon. Proto taken on March 3, 2023 by Elodie Toto

Libreville’s shrinking mangroves leave Gabon’s capital prone to floods

Elodie Toto 6 Apr 2023

CO2 in, methane out? Study highlights complexity of coastal carbon sinks

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Mar 2023
Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) caught in Italy.

Can we control marine invaders by eating them?

Guia Baggi 23 Mar 2023
A swimming cougar in British Columbia.

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2023

When a red snapper is more than just a fish: Q&A fisheries scientist Elle Wibisono

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2023

In Sri Lanka and beyond, seagrass key to livelihoods, marine habitats

Malaka Rodrigo 15 Mar 2023

Rule change sees foreign investors back in Indonesia’s fisheries scene

Basten Gokkon 10 Mar 2023
Mangrove planting on the coast of Ambon Island.

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration will run out of land well short of target, study warns

Cassie Freund 9 Mar 2023

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023
A sea turtle in Philippine coral reefs.

China-funded bridge threatens Paradise Reef in southern Philippines

Bong S. Sarmiento 7 Mar 2023

Indonesian fisheries fee change promises more revenue, but likely also more violations

Basten Gokkon 4 Mar 2023

Indigenous Comcaac serve up an oceanic grain to preserve seagrass meadows

Astrid Arellano 3 Mar 2023
Duyen walks between shrimp farms.

As livelihoods clash with development, Vietnam’s Cần Giờ mangroves are at risk

Lam Nguyen, Danielle Keeton-Olsen 28 Feb 2023

‘Locals want their resources to last’: Q&A with marine ecologist Vilma Machava-António

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2023
A bronze-winged jacana.

For key Bangladesh wetland, bid for Ramsar status is no guarantee of protection

Mahadi Al Hasnat 17 Feb 2023
Local women participating in the economic value conservation activities.

Failed mangrove tourism project in Sumatra highlights need for community collaboration

Barita News Lumbanbatu 16 Feb 2023
Kelly Banda (center, standing) with volunteers and community members.

‘The Mangrove Guy’: Q&A with Kelly Roberts Banda, Kenya’s lawyer-conservationist

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 2 Feb 2023
A fisherman looks for crabs.

On Sumatra coast, mangrove clearing sparks scrutiny of loophole

Teguh Suprayitno 30 Jan 2023
Golden snub-nosed monkey are listed as an endangered species by the IUCN. Photo by Jack Hynes / Wikimedia Commons.

In wake of ‘natural’ disasters, not reducing biodiversity loss is a big missed opportunity (commentary)

Roger S. Pulwarty 26 Jan 2023
Drone view of a salmon farm.

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Jan 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023
Fishes in a coral reef.

Invasive rats topple ecological domino that affects reef fish behavior

John Cannon 20 Jan 2023
A puffin flying.

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jan 2023
Seaweed harvesting in the Philippines.

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Jewel S. Cabrera 17 Jan 2023

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