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Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022
Estrela Matilde

Biologist fighting plastic pollution to save sea turtles wins ‘Green Oscar’

Kaleab Girma 11 May 2022
Humpback whales have made a remarkable recovery from the days when they were targeted by whaling vessels, but global whale populations are starting to struggle as food resources shift and deteriorate.

What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 May 2022
Two researchers pulling seine net through estuarine waters searching for pipefish. Image courtesy of Jason Boswell.

Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health

Sean Mowbray 3 May 2022

Why are Florida manatees showing up in Cuba and Mexico?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2022
Clownfish can reportedly lay clutches of over 1000 eggs.

Pilot program tries to get U.S. aquariums to raise their own fish, not catch them

Ashley Stumvoll 21 Apr 2022
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Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2022
A hawksbill sea turtle

Shell of a comeback: New app, awareness campaigns bring hope for hawksbill turtles

Carly Nairn 6 Apr 2022
Leatherback turtle nesting on a beach

‘Resilient’ leatherback turtles can survive fishing rope entanglements. Mostly

Kala Hunter 5 Apr 2022
Mallorca, in Spain’s Balearic Islands, is a go-to destination for holidaymakers from Europe and further afield. Image by Kyle Taylor via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022
A bloated humpback whale on a beach in California, U.S.

That dead whale on the beach? Let it be, study says. Or at least don’t blow it up

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Mar 2022

NGOs block gillnet fishing across 100,000 sq km of Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Mar 2022

The ocean is a cacophony of fish talk, study shows. We just can’t hear it

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 30 Mar 2022
A bird rescued from the oil spill is cared for by personnel from the national wildlife agency, SERFOR. Image courtesy of SERFOR.

Oil spill contaminates wildlife, beaches and protected areas in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Mar 2022

Fourth round of U.N. talks fail to finalize a treaty to manage the high seas

Elizabeth Fitt 21 Mar 2022

Spectacular new fish species is first to be named by Maldivian scientist

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2022

Vulnerable Antarctic reefs reveal wealth of life as rich as tropical corals

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Mar 2022

Indonesian ex-minister gets sentence cut for ‘good work’ fueled by corruption

Basten Gokkon 10 Mar 2022

Study finds major brands selling cat food that contain protected sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2022

‘They’re going to get worse and worse’: Marine heat wave persists off Sydney

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Feb 2022

Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2022

Belize shows how fishers and researchers can collaborate to protect sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Feb 2022

Red seas and no fish: Nickel mining takes its toll on Indonesia’s spice islands

Rabul Sawal 16 Feb 2022

‘There’s hope’ for North Atlantic right whales: Q&A with filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza

John Cannon 16 Feb 2022
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In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

Moira Donovan 15 Feb 2022

Could abandoning protections save South African abalone?

Victoria Schneider 15 Feb 2022

Scientists’ secret weapon to monitor the Southern Ocean? Elephant seals

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

In Argentina, sport fishers are reeling in threatened sharks to save them

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 10 Feb 2022

‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Feb 2022

Gulf of Thailand oil pipeline leak threatens reef-rich marine park

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2022

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2022

‘A bigger deal than it sounds’: Coconut crabs are vanishing, island by island

Cassie Freund 1 Feb 2022

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