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A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jul 2020

Oil slick threatens Philippine mangrove forest recovering from earlier spill

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Jul 2020

Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending catastrophe?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2020

Scientists agree on the need to protect 30% of the seas. But which 30%?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2020

Economists put a price tag on living whales in Brazil: $82 billion

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2020

Satellite imagery is helping to detect plastic pollution in the ocean

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 May 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

Ocean optimism: Study says we can restore marine health

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest bleaching event yet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020

In race for a sustainable alternative to plastic, Indonesia bets on seaweed

Johan Augustin 25 Mar 2020

This solar-powered device aims to clean 1,000 rivers. Will it work?

Rachael Meyer and Basten Gokkon 16 Mar 2020

Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year

Grace Dungey 28 Feb 2020
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

In Bali, young people lead the fight as a plastic plague threatens paradise

Johan Augustin 19 Feb 2020

The ‘blue acceleration’: Study shows humans’ surging incursions into the sea

Grace Dungey 13 Feb 2020

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020

Key cetacean site in Philippines sees drop in dolphin, whale sightings

Leilani Chavez 31 Jan 2020

Philippine coastal town leads war against plastic trash in Mindanao

Bong S. Sarmiento 19 Dec 2019

Nearly extinct vaquita mothers with calves spotted in recent expeditions

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2019

Coal spill bedevils Indonesian beach more than a year later

Junaidi Hanafiah 22 Nov 2019

’Rampant’ fishing continues as vaquita numbers dwindle

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2019

Commitments worth $63 billion pledged for ocean protection

Monica Evans 28 Oct 2019

In Indonesia, a court victory for Bali’s ban on single-use plastics

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2019

Twice as many fishing vessels now, but it’s harder to catch fish

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019
A shark catch in Pucusana, Perú. Image courtesy of Oceana.

Weak governance undermines South America’s ocean ecosystems

Michelle Carrere 26 Apr 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019

Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

John Cannon 17 Apr 2019

Scientists urge overhaul of the world’s parks to protect biodiversity

John Cannon 11 Apr 2019

Indonesia oil slicks highlight weak enforcement against bilge dumping

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2019

To stop extinctions, start with these 169 islands, new study finds

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2019

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