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As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back

Chelsy Mae Abdulmuti 20 Jul 2021

Indonesian former fisheries minister jailed for bribery in lobster exports

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2021

Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?

Marlowe Starling 14 Jul 2021

Indonesian fishers seize dredging boat in protest against offshore tin mining

Basten Gokkon 13 Jul 2021

‘We are intimately connected with nature’: Q&A with oceanographer Kim McCoy

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jul 2021

Sri Lanka banks on the ocean to chart a green path toward a blue economy

Dennis Mombauer 28 Jun 2021

Slick caught on satellite image around sunken ship not fuel oil, Sri Lanka says

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

Calls for independent probe after anti-mine Indonesian official dies

Basten Gokkon, Della Syahni 15 Jun 2021

Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary

Gladstone Taylor 10 Jun 2021

On an island scarred by tin mining, mangrove planting preserves shrimp tradition

Taufik Wijaya 13 May 2021

Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns

L. Darmawan 4 May 2021

At Vietnam’s southern tip, mangroves defend the land from the encroaching sea

Michael Tatarski 28 Apr 2021

Countries can transform the climate crisis with ocean-based action (commentary)

Waldemar Coutts 19 Apr 2021

Sea turtles under threat as Indian government weighs development in Andaman Islands

Rosamma Thomas 14 Apr 2021

On the sea’s surface, a wealth of ocean life gets its start, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2021

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

Basten Gokkon 24 Feb 2021

Women and girls: Let’s transform the ocean by including everyone (commentary)

Leandra Gonçalves, Paulina Chamorro 11 Feb 2021

This Mediterranean seagrass filters plastic waste — but it’s also under threat

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2021

Mozambique’s new fisheries law expands protections but old problems persist

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Jan 2021

Analysis: Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view

David E. Brown 30 Dec 2020

Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2020

Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2020

Indonesian fisheries minister arrested over graft in lobster policy

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2020

Bribery-tainted coal plant in Indonesia held up as landowners hold out

Basten Gokkon 13 Nov 2020
Clearing beached Sargassum in Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Environmental Protection Agency – Sierra Leone

Entangled: How a global seaweed ‘plague’ threatens West Africa’s coastline

Richard Arghiris 11 Nov 2020
Planted mangrove seedlings. Image by Irwandi wancaleu via Wikimedia Commons (CC 4.0)

In mangrove restoration, custom solutions beat one-size-fits-all approach

Mark Hillsdon 30 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s new deregulation law to hurt small fishers, coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2020
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesian lobster exporters, advised by a smuggler, flout domestic requirements

Fathul Rakhman 16 Sep 2020

Indonesian fishers opposed to dredging project hit by ‘criminalization’ bid

Basten Gokkon, Wahyu Chandra 28 Aug 2020

In Brazil, human action and climate change are drowning a community

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

Indonesian fishers who fought off tin miners prepare to battle all over again

Nopri Ismi 6 Aug 2020

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