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Fresh shark meat is sold as cação at street markets in Rio de Janeiro. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay shark meat exposé wins national journalism education award in Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2026
A shoal of batfish in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Ocean Equity Index aims to measure justice at sea

Edward Carver 26 Feb 2026
Ikoots fishers haul a net into shore off the coast of Cuauhtémoc, San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. Overhead, frigatebirds attempt to steal fish from the net.

Indigenous Ikoots community prepares to relocate as the Pacific floods their town

Euan Wallace 25 Feb 2026

Panama NGOs face lawsuits, asset seizures in fight over port construction

Maxwell Radwin 23 Feb 2026
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus); the species is one of 19 cetacean species that spend time in the Azores.

Azores dodges proposal to overturn no-fishing zones in its giant new MPA network

Maria José Mendes 23 Feb 2026
Blue shark.

It’s electric: Scientists develop cheap way to keep sharks off fishing hooks

Edward Carver 23 Feb 2026
Aerial view as a ship sails through the sea ice in the winter.

Petrostates stymie effort to rein in Arctic shipping carbon emissions

Sean Mowbray 23 Feb 2026
Scientists at work against a backdrop of lab glassware.

In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs

Neelanjana Rai 20 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

New study assesses geoengineering marine ecosystem risks, knowledge gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Feb 2026

Why so many mangrove restoration projects fail

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2026
Atoll

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2026
According to scientists, the enhanced protection for southern elephant seals is likely benefiting other species in their habitat. Image courtesy of Nico de Bruyn.

Southern elephant seals recover in Southern Africa, but global picture is mixed

Charles Mpaka 18 Feb 2026

Texas sea turtles have lost a conservation hero (commentary)

Todd Steiner 16 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
A humpback whale breaching in Alaskan waters.

Indigenous concerns surface as U.S. agency considers seabed mining in Alaskan waters

Anita Hofschneider 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
Seatrees and project partner COBEC with local community members in Marereni, Kenya.

How intermediaries are reshaping mangrove restoration

Marina Martinez 6 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
Coral reef, Tioman Island

Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 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
A basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), an endangered species, photographed along the Inner Hebrides island chain in Scotland, which is within a designated ISRA.

New global map shows where sharks and rays most need protection

Edward Carver 3 Feb 2026

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

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2026
Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

A ‘new baseline’: Study captures accelerating sea-level rise in Africa

Edward Carver 30 Jan 2026
Corals in Thailand

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

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2026
A file photo of the Wakashio shipwreck from 2020. Image by imo.un via

More than 5 years after Wakashio oil spill, questions linger in Mauritius

Malavika Vyawahare 26 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

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2026

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