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Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2020

Flip-flops, fishing gear pile up at Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2020

New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries

Basten Gokkon 4 Sep 2020

Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Aug 2020

Sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ in many global reef systems, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jul 2020

Sea turtles often lose their way, but always reach their destination

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

Scientists agree on the need to protect 30% of the seas. But which 30%?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2020

Indigenous solutions to climate crisis could lie in archaeology, experts say

Ian Morse 6 May 2020

Only ‘A-list’ of coral reefs found to sustain ecosystems, livelihoods

Basten Gokkon 27 Apr 2020

What one of the world’s most active volcanoes tells us about missing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Apr 2020

Seychelles extends protection to marine area twice the size of Great Britain

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2020

Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year

Grace Dungey 28 Feb 2020

Any illegal fishing going on around here? Ask an albatross

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2020

Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees

Malavika Vyawahare, Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jan 2020

Tree-planting programs turn to tech solutions to track effectiveness

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

‘Radically changing’ a rare Mauritian plant’s story: Q&A with ecologist Prishnee Bissessur

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2019

Protecting the strange sea pangolin and other animals: Q&A with deep sea biologist Chong Chen

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2019

Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior: video

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Jul 2019

Information is key – but lacking for sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean (commentary)

Dave van Beuningen, Rhett Bennett 18 Jul 2019

Altered fish communities persist long after reefs bleach, study finds

John Cannon 28 Jun 2019

For artisanal fishers, fish fences are an easy, but problematic, option

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2019

Underwater ultrasound scanner to support manta conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 May 2019
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Vasudevan Sridharan 1 May 2019

Ocean winds, wave heights have increased around the world

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

What underwater sounds can tell us about Indian Ocean humpback dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 19 Mar 2019

Something smells fishy: Scientists uncover illegal fishing using shark tracking devices

Sophie Manson 7 Mar 2019
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

High sea levels thousands of years ago aided island formation

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2018

Coral bleaching events cause behavioral changes in key reef fish species

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2018

17 new brilliantly colored species of sea slugs described

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2018

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