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The First Gen tanker off the shores of Santa Clara, October, 2024.

Philippine fishers struggle as LNG ‘superhighway’ cuts through biodiversity hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2025

Argentina’s elephant seals face 100-year recovery after avian flu devastation: Study

Astrid Arellano 20 Aug 2025
Banner image: Corals and fish within the Bitaug MPA. Image © Dean Apistar/WCS Philippines.

Community efforts yield new marine protected area in the Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 20 Aug 2025

Indonesia’s aquafarm revamp sparks fears for fate of farmers and mangroves

Basten Gokkon, M Ambari 20 Aug 2025
Sea fans in a coral reef in San Pedro, Belize. Image by Fabrice Dudenhofer / Ocean Image Bank.

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs

Marco Lopez 19 Aug 2025
Equipment used in deep-sea mining. Photo by Richard Baron/The Metals Company

Deep-sea mining is a false solution to our challenges (commentary)

Pradeep Singh 19 Aug 2025
A whale shark near Ningaloo Reef off western Australia.

Whale shark hotspot discovered along the Great Barrier Reef

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2025
A sperm whale.

Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern

Sean Mowbray 19 Aug 2025

There’s hope for sunflower sea stars, with their killer unmasked and reintroductions pending

Darren Incorvaia, Sharon Guynup 18 Aug 2025

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 18 Aug 2025

New report warns 54% of turtles and tortoises are at risk of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 15 Aug 2025
Confiscated corals now at New York Aquarium. Image courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Seized corals find safe harbor in New York Aquarium

Kristine Sabillo 15 Aug 2025
A barberfish (Johnrandallia nigrirostris) swimming through Pocillopora corals in Panama's Coiba National Park.

Microbiomes may be corals’ secret weapon against climate change: Study

Marlowe Starling 14 Aug 2025
A Mobula yarae, or Atlantic manta ray. Image courtesy of Maitê Baratella/Barracuda Imagens.

Third manta ray species confirmed in western Atlantic

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Aug 2025
Banner image of a school of grunts (Pomadasys incisus) in the Teno-Rasca Marine Strip by Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Goldman Prize winner’s shift from engineer to activist in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2025
Spoon-billed sandpiper in Tiaozini, China.

A critical stopover for shorebirds awaits protection in Malaysia

Lee Kwai Han 13 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka plans restoring revoked protection for an important mangrove patch in the island’s North

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Aug 2025
Sunflower sea star in Knight Inlet, Canada. Image courtesy of Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute.

Scientists identify the bacterium behind billions of sea star deaths

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2025

Revealed: Brazilian state buys endangered angelsharks for school lunches

Fernanda Wenzel, Philip Jacobson 7 Aug 2025
Workers at the CEAGESP food warehouse in São Paulo sort shark meat for distribution. Image by Philip Jacobson/Mongabay.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

World’s first industry-wide climate mandate could be launched with shipping vote

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2025
A fisher “foot fishing” on the reef flat of Anjouan at low tide.

Encouraging signs from a no-fishing zone in Comoros could inspire others

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Aug 2025
Display and sale of fish maw during a cultural festival in Singapore.

Upmarket fish maw trade in Singapore & Malaysia includes endangered species: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Aug 2025
A loggerhead hatchling in Boa vista. Image courtesy of The Turtle Foundation.

Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 4 Aug 2025
Banner image of a remotely operated vehicle KIEL 6000 holding a manganese nodule in the sought-after Clarion-Clipperton Zone by the ROV-Team/GEOMAR via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament

Kristine Sabillo 1 Aug 2025

A sales-pitch pivot brings deep-sea mining closer to reality

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2025
A view of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, a small city on the southwest coast. Image courtesy of ICC.

‘Nothing about us without us’: Inuit leader Sara Olsvig on ocean politics

Edward Carver 31 Jul 2025
A leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Malaysia’s turtle egg buyback scheme saved thousands — but is it sustainable?

Keith Anthony Fabro 31 Jul 2025
Researchers Dušan Materić, left, and Helge Niemann, right, collecting water samples in the North Atlantic Ocean. Image courtesy of NIOZ.

Scientists use the ‘smell of burned plastic’ to measure nanoplastics in the ocean

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Jul 2025

Coral restoration after devasting Deepwater Horizon spill shows promise

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2025

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