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Venezuela’s oil spill crisis reached new heights in 2022: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2023
A puffin flying.

For threatened seabirds of NE Atlantic, climate change piles on the pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jan 2023

More than half of reef sharks and rays threatened with extinction, study shows

Basten Gokkon 17 Jan 2023
A group of traditional fishermen in small boats catching fish in the waters of Maluku.

More marine protected areas planned for Indonesia’s Maluku after 2022 spree

Nurdin Tubaka 16 Jan 2023

Murdered Belize environmentalist helped boost marine conservation through technology

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jan 2023

Island conservation should focus on land-sea links for most impact, paper says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2023
A reef shark in Fiji.

Sharks received landmark protection to combat fin trade, but the culling must stop (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 3 Jan 2023

Indonesian ‘island auction’ to go ahead despite concerns over permits

Basten Gokkon 3 Jan 2023
A reddish brown jellyfish in the deep sea.

Democratizing the deep sea: Q&A with Ocean Discovery League’s Katy Croff Bell

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Jan 2023
Anniqa Law Chung-kiu, conservation project manager for The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong.

Restoring Hong Kong’s oyster reefs, one abandoned oyster farm at a time

Peter Yeung 30 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s ‘essential’ mangroves, seagrass and corals remain unprotected

Basten Gokkon 30 Dec 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
A whale shark swimming with remoras.

2022’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Aaron Roan, Callie Leiphardt, Douglas McCauley, Neil Nathan, Rachel Rhodes 29 Dec 2022

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s ‘must listen’ podcast list for 2022

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Dec 2022
Kelp Forest in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Photo by Chad King/NOAA.

California’s network of marine protected areas must be strengthened and expanded (commentary)

Ben Grundy 22 Dec 2022
A manta ray.

Strong marine protected areas credited with manta ray surge in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 22 Dec 2022
An Atlantic grey seal.

Plastic pellet pollution can end through coordinated efforts, report shows

Jewel S. Cabrera 21 Dec 2022
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
The developers on Koh Toteung smothered the island's corals in sand while creating an artificial beach in June 2022.

Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast

Gerald Flynn｜Andy Ball｜Vutha Srey 16 Dec 2022
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022
A man canoing among the mangroves

Indonesia’s mangrove revival hindered by conflicting policies

Gafur Abdullah 12 Dec 2022
Kelp forest.

Peat on land and kelp at sea as Argentina protects tip of Tierra del Fuego

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Dec 2022
A shark with remoras.

Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

Philip Jacobson 8 Dec 2022

Indonesian authorities nip island auction in marine reserve in the bud

Basten Gokkon, Mahmud Ichi 7 Dec 2022
“Dreamlife of Mangroves” by Melodi Roberts of the United States was a runner up in the annual Mangrove Photography Awards.

Mangrove photo contest winners reveal majesty & diversity of coastal forests

Erik Hoffner 5 Dec 2022

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022
Two sand sea cucumbers.

Fishers in Flores Sea opt to limit harvest of overexploited sea cucumbers

Wahyu Chandra 28 Nov 2022

Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

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