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Mexico to get its largest ever protected area

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Dec 2016

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Kate Mayberry 2 Dec 2016

Great Barrier Reef suffered worst coral die-off on record in 2016: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Nov 2016
Dominica sperm whales near the surface. Photo Courtesy of The Dominica Sperm Whale Project.

Distinctive sperm whale cultures reveal dramatic population shifts in the Galápagos

Yasemin Saplakoglu 23 Nov 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

New atlas bolsters global perspective of fisheries – book review

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

World’s largest marine protected area created in Antarctica

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Oct 2016

Is it time for a moratorium on commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna?

Mike Gaworecki 26 Oct 2016

Belize suspends oil exploration near World Heritage Site after public outcry

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2016

Scientists dive deep to discover new fish species at 150 meters

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Oct 2016
A female North Atlantic right whale and her calf, off Cumberland Island, Georgia, in January 2013. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, collected under NOAA Research Permit #15488

A week of grim tidings for critically endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 6 Oct 2016

CITES CoP17 closes after key votes on elephants, lions, pangolins, rosewood, and more

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2016
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Whalesong, interrupted

Melati Kaye 23 Sep 2016

Time running out to save world’s most endangered porpoise, environmentalists warn

Mike Gaworecki 21 Sep 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio launches global campaign to protect sharks and rays

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Sep 2016

Obama creates Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2016

$48 million fund to help expand marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Sep 2016

Ocean warming is “greatest hidden challenge of our generation,” according to IUCN

Mike Gaworecki 6 Sep 2016

US creates world’s largest marine reserve off Hawaii

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016

Atauro island has highest average reef fish diversity in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2016

Two new species of glowing spook fish discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

Watch how corals ‘violently’ bleach as sea temperatures rise

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

New species of extinct dolphin discovered in museum collection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2016

400-year-old Greenland shark might be oldest vertebrate on Earth

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Aug 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016

Mountain streams in the U.S. show surprising resilience to climate change

Meghan Gilbert 12 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

From Boom to Glug glug: Indonesia’s new anti-poacher policy

Melati Kaye 9 Aug 2016

Sites targeted for deep-sea mining teeming with new species

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Aug 2016

Should you be concerned about plastic and other human debris in your seafood?

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2016

Humpback whales rescue seals and other animals from killer whales

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Aug 2016

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