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Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go

Ayaz Khan 17 Nov 2025

West Africa’s oceans get $68 million lifeline amid fisheries decline

Elodie Toto 12 Nov 2025
Humpback whale tail, Reunion Island. Image courtesy of François Baelen/Ocean Image Bank.

Mongabay launches dedicated Oceans Desk to expand global reporting on marine ecosystems

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2025
Fishing boats with nets, Grenada, Caribbean Credit: Hugh Whyte / Ocean Image Bank.

Embrace ‘blue’ foods as a climate strategy at COP30, fisheries ministers say (commentary)

André de Paula, Salvador Malheiro 11 Nov 2025
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs

Edward Carver 10 Nov 2025

Expedition charts Cook Islands seafloor, amid scrutiny over mining motives

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Nov 2025

Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2025
A humpback whale fluke.

Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules

Francesco De Augustinis 4 Nov 2025
Blackchin tilapia

Thai agri giant CPF sues activist over claims linking it to invasive fish outbreak

Carolyn Cowan 4 Nov 2025
Trawlers docked outside Sihanoukville. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Chaos on Cambodia’s Coast

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2025

Scientists map Italy’s entire coast to guide seagrass and marine recovery

Manuela Callari 31 Oct 2025
The Arctic is undergoing rapid dramatic changes due to climate change.

Stronger arctic cyclones speed up polar melting, impacting global weather

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2025
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Image by Dr. Wayne Trivelpiece via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2025

On first International Day of the Deep Seabed, we seek stewardship and consensus (commentary)

Leticia Carvalho 30 Oct 2025
A turkey moray in a coral reef in Mauritius.

In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025
A shark is hauled into the hold of the Pedra da Grelo, a Spanish longliner targeting swordfish in the south Atlantic ocean.

Report finds dangerous mercury levels, highlights mislabeling in shark meat sold in EU

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Oct 2025
Missing fisheries observer Samuel Abayateye.

Two years later, no closure for family of missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 29 Oct 2025
A humpback whale

Australia celebrates ‘humpback comeback,’ but a main food source is under threat

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Oct 2025
A harp seal on ice.

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Oct 2025
A diamond squid, which is found in both epipelagic and mesopelagic zones.

Global conservation body takes first step to protect ocean’s twilight zone

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Oct 2025
A raft of sea otters off the Alaska coast.

Booming sea otters and fading shellfish spark values clash in Alaska

Justin Catanoso 21 Oct 2025
Two olive ridley turtles caught in discarded fishing nets. Image courtesy of Galbokka Sea Turtle Conservation & Research Center.

Ghost nets entangling turtles, marine life in Sri Lanka’s waters

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2025
A manta ray in the Indian Ocean.

Mining the deep-sea could further threaten endangered sharks and rays

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Oct 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025
A waddle of chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) on Deception Island, Antarctica. Image courtesy of Jay Williams / WWF.

Abandoning Antarctic krill management measure threatens conservation progress (commentary)

Andrea Capurro, Mary-Anne Lea 13 Oct 2025
A 2.6 meter-long (8.5-ft) oarfish (Regalecus russelii) caught off the western coast of Sri Lanka is the first record of the world’s longest fish in its waters.

First oarfish sighting in Sri Lanka highlights citizen science in marine protection

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Oct 2025
A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Octopus farming is a dangerous detour for marine conservation (commentary)

Giulia Malerbi 8 Oct 2025
Seabed after bottom trawling. Image courtesy of Howard Wood/Oceana UK.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

Shanna Hanbury 7 Oct 2025

Indonesia eyes seagrass zoning for blue carbon; experts urge community benefits

Basten Gokkon 7 Oct 2025
After a chinchorro fishing haul, some fish considered worthless are left behind and end up rotting on the sand.

Illegal fishing threatens unique marine ecosystem in Peru

Ramiro Escobar 1 Oct 2025

The world’s oceans face triple planetary crisis: Report

Bobby Bascomb 30 Sep 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025

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