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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
Satellite images of the chemical spill in Bais Bay. Images courtesy of Sentinel-2L2A.

Ethanol plant spills harmful wastewater into Philippine marine reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2025
A humpback whale fluke.

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

Francesco De Augustinis 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
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
A humpback whale

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

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Oct 2025
A oceanic whitetip shark with pilot fish. Image by Johanlantz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks

Shreya Dasgupta 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
Birds flock in the foreground against wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2025

Rare dugong calf sighting in Alor spotlights seagrass & marine mammal conservation

Basten Gokkon 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

Nations delay vote on shipping decarbonization rules after fierce US resistance

Edward Carver 17 Oct 2025

US blocks a global fee on shipping emissions as international meeting ends without new regulations

Associated Press 17 Oct 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025

Indonesia falls short in bid to increase its share of southern bluefin tuna catch

Edward Carver 16 Oct 2025

Nickel mining threatens Raja Ampat ecosystems, communities & conservation: Report

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2025
A harbor seal pup is carefully restrained by an animal care volunteer during a tube feeding at The Marine Mammal Center’s hospital and visitor center in Sausalito, California.

Will California’s marine mammal conservation success come undone?

David Helvarg 9 Oct 2025
The Laura Mærsk arrives at port in Copenhagen in September 2023 for a name-giving ceremony.

What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?

Edward Carver 8 Oct 2025
Starfish on sunken World War II munitions in the Baltic Sea. Image courtesy of Vedenin et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Oct 2025

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

Basten Gokkon 7 Oct 2025
Rainbow over Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Just as Raja Ampat fetches UNESCO Biosphere Reserve title, nickel mining looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 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
North Pacific Ocean temperature anomalies on September 28, 2025. Positive values denotes areas warmer than average; negative values means cooler than average. Image via NOAA Coral Reef Watch.

Northeast Pacific endures fourth-largest marine heat wave on record

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025
Alisha’s dorsal photograph during her initial tagging in May 2012 in Gansbaai, South Africa.

Long-lost white shark tag traces remarkable journey from South Africa to SE Asia

Miriam Bahagijo 26 Sep 2025

From Chile to Greece, ‘ghost gear’ from fish farms haunts the seas

Guia Baggi 25 Sep 2025
Fishers with their canoes in São Tomé.

São Tomé and Príncipe commits to creating a marine protected area network

Victoria Schneider 19 Sep 2025
The “pink panther,” operated by the company ECOsubsea, conducts a hull cleaning of vessel Frontier Kotobuki in Singapore.

With global rules pending, can the shipping industry get more carbon efficient?

Edward Carver 17 Sep 2025
The newly described pink bumpy snailfish. Image courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).

Researchers describe three new-to-science snailfish species off California coast

Mongabay.com 11 Sep 2025

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