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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
Soldiers from the PROLANSATE Foundation on patrol

Why is protecting this Honduran lagoon so dangerous? 

Fritz Pinnow, Sam Lee 22 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
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

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

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2025

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement

Victoria Schneider 20 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

Unique diving paradise threatened by mine reopening

Juan Maza 18 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

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

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025
Deforestation for nickel mining in Gag Island, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

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

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2025

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

Liz Kimbrough 14 Oct 2025

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report

Bobby Bascomb 14 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 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
A walkway build amid the mangrove trees.

A protected mangrove forest stands strong as Metro Manila’s last coastal frontier

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 8 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
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
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

Philippines protects coral hotspot

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Oct 2025

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

Basten Gokkon 7 Oct 2025

Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands

Bobby Bascomb 3 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
Prochlorococcus marinus, a globally significant marine cyanobacterium. Image by Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, 2007, via Flickr (Public domain).

New conservation panel to focus on microorganisms crucial for human and planet health

Shreya Dasgupta 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

The world’s oceans face triple planetary crisis: Report

Bobby Bascomb 30 Sep 2025

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