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Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018
Pacific bluefin tuna. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $323,000. Can the species be saved?

Bonnie Waycott 12 Jan 2018
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

High volumes of ivory continue to be sold online in Japan

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Aug 2017

Leaked terms of huge EU-Japan trade deal spark environmental alarm

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Jun 2017

The meat hook: satiating Asia’s demand for beef

Maxine Chen 27 Apr 2017

Testing the water: identifying marine communities through eDNA

Colleen O'Brien 24 Feb 2017

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2017

New parasitic plant doesn’t use photosynthesis; its flowers never bloom

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2016

Tadpoles found living in Japanese streams with hottest water ever recorded for an amphibian

Mike Gaworecki 5 Aug 2016

Japan kills 333 whales, including 200 pregnant females

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Mar 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016

Giant squid caught on video in Japanese harbor

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2015

The Black-faced Spoonbill: Asia’s beloved wading bird fights for space

Doug Meigs 2 Nov 2015

The snake that decapitates its prey

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Jul 2015

Russia bans driftnet fishing, a reprieve for seabirds and marine mammals

Rebecca Kessler 10 Jul 2015

US ambassador reiterates commitment to controversial Okinawa air base, a setback for endangered dugong

Greg Norman 6 Jul 2015

Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2015

Reports slam Malaysian timber companies, urge reforms in forest management

Ethan Harfenist 27 Feb 2015

Reports blame illegal logging for felling Sarawak forest

Ethan Harfenist 25 Feb 2015

Progress being made in curbing illegal timber imports

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2014

Green Climate Fund nears $7 billion after U.S. pledges $3 billion

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

An uncertain future: world’s last wild Siberian tigers threatened by illegal logging, global warming, disease (PART II)

Sandhya Sekar 22 Aug 2014

Logging of Russian Far East damaging tiger habitat, few intact forests protected (Part I)

Sandhya Sekar 19 Aug 2014

Want to save Africa’s elephants? Close all ivory markets

Jeremy Hance 7 Aug 2014

No restrictions: Japan’s demand for illegal wood driving rampant deforestation in Siberia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2014

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Apr 2014

Scientists discover new eagle ray imperiled by Japanese pest program (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 2014

Photos: Japanese fishermen slaughter 41 dolphins, capture 52 in ‘The Cove’

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2014

Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2014

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