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A lake with a large-scale algae outbreak due to excess nutrients. Image courtesy of Brad Busenius via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Mangroves are ‘powerful and undervalued’ for curbing nitrogen pollution, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2026
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2021

Ocean deoxygenation could be silently killing coral reefs, scientists say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Apr 2020

David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for human survival

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

Planting meadows in the ocean: technique may help restore disappearing seagrass beds

Anna Ikarashi 11 Aug 2014

Does haze from burning forests affect marine life?

Jeremy Hance 10 Mar 2014

Mesoamerican Reef needs more local support, says report

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Sep 2013

Measuring nutrient pollution in pristine waters: Puerto Rico’s Vieques Island

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2012

Organic yields lag behind industrial farming, but that’s not the whole story

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2012

Jellyfish explosion may be natural cycle

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2012

Ocean prognosis: mass extinction

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2011

Record dead zone projected due to Midwest floods

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2011

Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Gabriel Thoumi 23 May 2011

Australia’s floods threaten Great Barrier Reef

Emily Kirkland 18 Jan 2011

Growing Atlantic dead zone shrinks habitat for billfish and tuna, may lead to over-harvest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Dec 2010

Coral reef survival depends on the super small, an interview with Forest Rohwer

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2010

Backbone of marine food chain in alarming decline

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2010

New NASA image reveals the oceans’ dead zones

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2010

Biofuel company eyes dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico for creating fish-powered fuel

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2009

Will jellyfish take over the world?

Jeremy Hance 16 Jun 2009

Climate change, ocean acidification may doom jumbo squid

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2008

U.S. needs environmental standards for biofuels

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2008

The long-ignored ocean emergency and what can be done to address it

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2008

Marine ‘dead zones’ double every decade

Jeremy Hance 14 Aug 2008

U.S. dead zones may reach record levels this summer

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2008

Nitrogen pollution harming ecosystems and contributing to global warming

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Global warming to worsen ocean dead zones, hurt fisheries

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Ocean dead zones have nearly quadrupled since 1994

Jeremy Hance 3 Apr 2008

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