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Divers collect coral samples at Pulau Redang Marine Park, Malaysia. Image courtesy of Ong Chai Kee.

Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study finds

Ashley Yeong 4 Nov 2026
An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica jumping out of the water.

High expectations but no agreement on Antarctic marine protection, krill fishing

Francesco De Augustinis 3 Nov 2026

Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore

Basten Gokkon 29 Oct 2026
A file photo shows a green sea turtle on a coral reef in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape between the Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu. Image courtesy of Tañon Strait Philippines.

The Philippine lawyer who beat an oil giant: Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio on defending Tañon Strait

Maverick Avila 27 Oct 2026
Lobe coral (Porites lobata).

Corals keep a record of pollution, pointing to a new monitoring method: Study

Edward Carver 26 Oct 2026

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns

David Brown 23 Oct 2026

Googly-eyed buoys and kites help keep seabirds out of fishing nets, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2026
Dinghies used for halibut fishing in Greenland. Image courtesy of Caroline Bouchard via Wikimedia Commons (free to use).

‘A decision to decide’: Greenland moves to suspend seabed mining until 2029

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2026
A red-Footed booby (Sula sula) chick on an atoll island in the central Indian Ocean.

Seabird guano and native trees keep islands above rising seas: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Oct 2026
A pod of 30 belugas was transferred from the shuttered park Marineland to various facilities as part of an unprecedented two-month-long rescue. Image © Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez.

Six beluga deaths cast a shadow over rescue from Canada’s Marineland

Spoorthy Raman 21 Oct 2026
A deep-sea cucumber among polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Image courtesy of ROV-Team GEOMAR/ROV KIEL 6000/GEOMAR.

US deep-sea mining claims in Pacific’s high seas now rival the area set aside by international regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Andrés Alegría 20 Oct 2026
Silky sharks like this one, seen in the Bahamas, occupy important roles high in the food chain, and their loss could spell trouble for oceans.

As silky sharks decline, Costa Rica’s dominant trade faces a reckoning

Alex Megerle 20 Oct 2026
Giant kelp in Port Davey, Tasmania. Image courtesy of Stefan Andrews.

Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania’s gains against kelp-grazing sea urchins

Amina McCauley 19 Oct 2026
People gather to watch a trapped shark called Bukangi at the North Port Waterfront Park in Busan, South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2026. Image by AP Photos/Son Hyung-joo/Yonhap.

Celebrity shark trapped in South Korean canal stirs concerns over warming seas

Kelly Kasulis-Cho 16 Oct 2026
Parrotfish in a seagrass meadow in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Benjamin Jones.

Seagrass meadows may offer coastal communities a more nutritious catch than reefs

Rajeev Tyagi 16 Oct 2026
Wandering albatrosses on South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean that’s a key breeding spot for this and other albatross species. The species’ population on the island has declined significantly in recent decades.

Nations at southern bluefin tuna meeting stop short of adopting new seabird protections

Edward Carver 15 Oct 2026
Lionfish captured off the coast of Porto Seguro in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil. Image courtesy of Lecomar/UFSB.

Invasive lionfish reach Brazil’s largest coral reefs. Local fishers fight back

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2026
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, face increasing threats in Malaysia, from coastal development, boat traffic, and fishing net entanglement. Image courtesy of MareCet.

Eavesdropping on Malaysia’s dolphins: Interview with marine bioacoustician Saliza Bono

Ashley Yeong 14 Oct 2026
Fishers pose with squid on a Chinese squid-fishing vessel.

Chinese squid tied to labor abuses finds an easy route into Western markets

Francesco De Augustinis 14 Oct 2026
Vivid orange sea star became an internet sensation for its uncanny resemblance to the cartoon character Patrick Star

‘Patrick’ sea star went viral, but Argentine deep-sea canyon held 57 new species

Liz Kimbrough 13 Oct 2026
Sirachai Arunrugstichai takes a photo of a school of bigeye snappers at Hat Noppharat Thara – Mu Koh Phi Phi National Park, a marine park in Krabi province, Thailand, in 2018. Image courtesy of Tanakit Suwanyangyuan.

Shedding light on the sea: Interview with Thai photographer Sirachai Arunrugstichai

Pratch Rujivanarom 13 Oct 2026
Project team members prepare juvenile bull kelp for transplanting in Clayoquot Sound. Image courtesy of Graeme Owsianski/Redd Fish Restoration Society.

First Nation-led effort replants kelp forests in Clayoquot Sound

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2026
Oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Oil pollution is drifting into marine protected areas, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 12 Oct 2026
Big blue octopus (Octopus cyanea) with diver in background in waters off Hawaii. Photo credit: naturepl.com / David Fleetham / WWF

World Octopus Day: new discoveries about the world’s smartest invertebrates

David Brown 8 Oct 2026
Angelshark, commonly called peixe anjo in Brazil, (“angel fish” in Portuguese), continues to be sold at stalls in the Porto Alegre Public Market. Image courtesy of Alex Rocha/PMPA.

Endangered angelshark is still traded in Brazil despite import ban

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Oct 2026

Arabian Sea humpbacks may be a unique subspecies at risk of extinction

Naina Rao 7 Oct 2026
An Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea)

Invading the globe: Bird flu now threatens Australia and Oceania

Christine Heinrichs 7 Oct 2026
Northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris ssp. kenyoni) in a kelp forest in Strathcona

Science, Indigenous knowledge team up to restore Canada’s kelp. (Sea otters help, too.)

Jennifer Cole 6 Oct 2026
Researcher Raquel Peixoto inoculating probiotics on bleached coral during a 2022 heat wave in the Red Sea. Image courtesy of Morgan Benett-Smith.

Probiotics prevented coral bleaching during a Red Sea heat wave: Study

Allessandra DiCorato 2 Oct 2026
Dolphins use whistles to communicate with each other and rapid clicking sounds to locate prey. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Dolphins keep their social and hunting lives in separate waters, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Oct 2026
A humpback whale back surrounded by murres and other seabirds off the coast of Alaska, with a fishing vessel in background. As warm waters reduced offshore krill, whales moved closer to the coast, where crab fishers set their traps and cast their nets, leading to a spike in whale entanglements.

New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes

María Paula Rubiano A. 29 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026

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