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Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018
The Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve is home to wildlife like jaguar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Latam Eco Review: Jail time for jaguar traffickers

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2018

Turtles exposed to record levels of microplastics on Mediterranean beaches

Nora Ward 23 Nov 2018

New picture of coral reef health opens avenues for saving them

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

Human activities are impeding population growth of North Atlantic right whales

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2018
Kelp. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Latam Eco Review: Rampant roadkill and shrinking seaweed stocks

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2018

PNG to create 7,500 square kilometers of new marine protected areas in Bismarck Sea

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

Research finds humans across the globe have microplastics in their stool

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2018
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Coral bleaching events cause behavioral changes in key reef fish species

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2018

Documenting emperor penguin populations, a dispatch from Antarctica

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2018

Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

‘The posterchild for entangled marine mammals around the globe:’ Q&A with author of ‘Vaquita’

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2018

Scientists map the impact of trawling using satellite vessel tracking

John Cannon 17 Oct 2018
A pile of shrimp in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies

Edward Carver, Will Fitzgibbon 11 Oct 2018

Whales not enough sustenance for polar bears in fast-changing climate

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2018
The coast of Freedom Island in Metro Manila teems with trash in this photo taken in 2017. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

Plastic trash from the ‘sachet economy’ chokes the Philippines’ seas

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

Young right whale dies, likely from entanglement in fishing gear

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018
Nomura jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. Photo Shin-ichi Uye

A ‘monoculture of jellyfish’ threatens the oceans as we know them (insider)

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2018

Largely banned industrial chemicals could wipe out killer whales, study warns

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Shark ceviche, bat-friendly tequila, and protein-rich worms

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2018

New species of neon-colored fish discovered off Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2018

New species of blood-red coral found off Panama coast

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018

Deep reefs were not spared by 2016 mass bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2018

How much plastic is too much plastic for sea turtles?

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Sep 2018

Diverse family of algae could help corals survive warming seas

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2018

New Zealand penguins make ‘crazy’ 7,000-km round trip for food

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2018

Madagascar: Where young whale sharks party

Nora Ward 31 Aug 2018

Taking it slow can help reduce impacts of Arctic shipping on whales (commentary)

Matt Pine 28 Aug 2018

The Japan pig is a tiny colorful pygmy seahorse smaller than a fingernail

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018

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