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Coral bleaching: How warming seas are transforming the world’s reefs

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2026
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

Sustainable fisheries can’t be built on exploited labor (commentary)

Alfred “Bubba” Cook 11 Feb 2026
A mud crab (Scylla serrata) Image by titi-uu via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming

Asha Bekidusa 11 Feb 2026
Glass eels from Nova Scotia, Canada.

‘Free for all’ — Dominican Republic withdraws trade protections, the latest blow to American eels’ future

Spoorthy Raman 11 Feb 2026
Across Kep province, fishing communities fear the Funan Techo Canal will see them lose their homes on land and their livelihoods at sea. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodia’s canal mega-project threatens coastal communities and marine life

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 10 Feb 2026
Loggerhead turtle swimming around fish aggregation device (FAD) belonging to the Ecuadorean purse seiner 'Ingalapagos', which was documented by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands.

Abandoned tuna-fishing devices pollute the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Marlowe Starling 9 Feb 2026
A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).

Critical shark and ray habitats in Western Indian Ocean largely unprotected: Study

Victoria Schneider 6 Feb 2026
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus).

Whale sharks released from nets along India’s coast as fishers turn rescuers

K.A. Shaji 4 Feb 2026
Seagrass in Malaysia

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2026

Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2026
Division in April 2023/04/09. Photo credit: New England Aquarium

Division’s final journey

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Feb 2026
Corals in Thailand

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2026
Southern right whales in South Africa. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Making 60% of the ocean manageable (Commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jan 2026

A new treaty comes into force to govern life on the high seas

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2026
A crew prepares the ground for electric poles near homes destroyed by the Pacific Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, U.S., in January 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Vogel.

Ocean set ‘alarming’ new temperature record in 2025

Edward Carver 16 Jan 2026
A purse seiner targeting Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. Image courtesy of Andre Boustany.

Study tracks fishing boats to see how heat waves affect fish distribution

Edward Carver 13 Jan 2026

South Africa’s great white shark population worries researchers

Victoria Schneider 13 Jan 2026
A Samoan coral reef from the air. Image courtesy of Andy Estep.

Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal

Shanna Hanbury 8 Jan 2026
Sperm whales inside Azores MPA Network. Image courtesy of Andy Mann/National Geographic.

Azores must respect its exceptional network of marine protected areas (commentary)

Enric Sala 5 Jan 2026
Emma Johnston. Photo by The University of New South Wales

Emma Johnston, a marine ecologist with institutional reach, has died at 52

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2025
A wooden dhow in Kiwla, Tanzania.

Fishing ‘modernization’ leaves Tanzania’s small-scale crews struggling to stay afloat

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2025
Kristina-Maria-Gjerde. Image courtesy of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI).

Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2025
Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), photographed in Yonaguni, Japan.

Top ocean news stories of 2025 (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana Spalding, Erin Skoczylas, Vanessa Constant 24 Dec 2025
Community members plant red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules in Hanging Site as part of a restoration effort.

Huge ‘blue carbon’ offsetting project takes root in the mangroves of Sierra Leone

Edward Carver, Mohamed Fofanah 23 Dec 2025
Shark meat is prepared for distribution at CEAGESP in São Paulo city. Image by Philip Jacobson/Mongabay.

Mongabay shark meat investigation wins national journalism award in Brazil

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2025
Vermillion rockfish and soft coral observed during an expedition in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected

Elizabeth Fitt 22 Dec 2025
A southern sea otter.

Zombie urchins & the Blob: California sea otters face new threats & ecosystem shifts

Christine Heinrichs 19 Dec 2025

The lab-in-a-backpack busting illegal shark fins: Interview with Diego Cardeñosa

Philip Jacobson 18 Dec 2025
Healthy reef off the coast of Panaon Island. Image courtesy of Danny Ocampo / Oceana.

Philippines’ newest marine protected area ‘sets inspiring example’ (commentary)

Antha Williams, Loren Legarda 16 Dec 2025

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 Dec 2025
Artisanal fishers pull in a fishing net.

Artisanal fishers in Liberia question benefits of new tracking devices from government

Edward Blamo 15 Dec 2025

Global manta and devil ray deaths far exceed earlier estimates: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Dec 2025

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