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Fishing boats spotted competing with whales in Antarctica for krill

Bobby Bascomb 21 Jan 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

2024’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana K. Spalding, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Asha de Vos, Cinda P. Scott, Josheena Naggea, Juan José Alava, Olivia Milloway, Rita Maria el Zaghloul 8 Jan 2025
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

We need a North Pole Marine Reserve to secure a healthy future for Arctic waters (commentary)

Graeme Chesters 6 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025

South Australia bans fishing of many sharks and rays in its waters

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2025

Road to recovery: Wild animals staging a comeback in 2024

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Dec 2024
Banner image: A sea turtle swims over a coral reef off the coast of Australia. Image by Jordan Robins via Ocean Image Bank.

Marine protection efforts in 2024 were still a drop in the ocean

Bobby Bascomb 30 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

‘These stories deserve to be told’: Shining a light on secretive fisheries managers

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2024
Fin whales, the second-largest mammal on earth, are hunted in Iceland, and their meat is exported to Japan. Image credits: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - Flickr: Finhval, CC BY 2.0,

Hundreds of whales to be harpooned as Iceland issues new hunting licenses

Spoorthy Raman 17 Dec 2024

Scientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale

Keith Anthony Fabro 17 Dec 2024
Banner image of Galaxea astreata coral colony in Nusa Penida in Bali, Indonesia, courtesy of Ocean Gardener.

Scientists in Bali find what could be the world’s largest coral colony

Kristine Sabillo 17 Dec 2024
fishers carrying a boat back to shore after a fishing trip

‘Shifting baselines’ in Cabo Verde after 50 years of declining fish stocks

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024

Time for a ‘moral reckoning’ of aquaculture’s environmental impacts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 10 Dec 2024

Wisdom the 74-year-old albatross lays an egg with new mate

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2024
Fisherman Komsan Witan carefully removes a blue swimming crab from his fishing net.

As Thailand’s blue swimming crabs decline, crab banks offer a sustainable solution

Ana Norman Bermúdez 5 Dec 2024
Killer whales swim in the icy Arctic waters that are newly open to them. Photo credit: Maha Ghazal

Killer whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping marine ecology

Caroline Hemphill 3 Dec 2024

Teamwork makes the dream work for orcas hunting world’s biggest shark

Bobby Bascomb 29 Nov 2024

‘Tragic’ mass fish die-off devastates Amazon River channel amid historic drought

Shanna Hanbury 27 Nov 2024

Protecting 2.6% of oceans could prevent deadly whale-ship collisions: Study

Shanna Hanbury 21 Nov 2024
Salmon farms in Loch Ainort.

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Francesco De Augustinis 20 Nov 2024
Banner image of clownfish and coral reef in Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

44% of reef-building coral species at risk of extinction: IUCN

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024

World’s largest known coral — visible from space — found in Solomon Islands

Bobby Bascomb 14 Nov 2024
A burrowing anemone in the seabed.

Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage

Mark Hillsdon 14 Nov 2024

Peruvian fishers help red sea urchins recover from overfishing

Geraldine Santos 12 Nov 2024
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

Population crash means African penguins are now critically endangered

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2024
Frozen tuna are transferred from the a Taiwanese longliner to a Panama-flagged reefer that was based in Tokyo, Japan. The transfer took place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 2019. Image © Tommy Trenchard / Greenpeace

Study maps owners of world’s high-seas ships often tied to illegal fishing

Shanna Hanbury 31 Oct 2024

The Azores creates largest marine protected area network in the North Atlantic

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Oct 2024
Antarctic terns (Sterna vittata)

More krill fishing and no new protected areas for Antarctic seas after latest talks

Francesco De Augustinis 28 Oct 2024

Scientists discover new hammerhead shark species — and it’s already at risk

Shanna Hanbury 18 Oct 2024
Coral reef.

Research proving impact of ocean acidification on marine life urgently needed: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Oct 2024

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