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Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2018

Under the sea: Life is the bubbles in newly described deep-reef zone

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2018
Koh Rong Sanloem, one of seven islands that make up Cambodia’s new Koh Rong Marine National Park. Photo by Wikirictor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia creates its first marine national park where pirate fishers prowl

Matt Blomberg 12 Mar 2018

Plastic not so fantastic for Bali’s iconic manta rays

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2018

Drone photography allows scientists to measure marine mammals without a catch

Danielle Bettermann 2 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Coral reef monitoring takes to the skies: drone-mounted hyperspectral cameras help scientists assess health of coral reefs

Colleen O'Brien 19 Feb 2018

Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2018

Duterte orders navy to fire on foreign poachers in Philippine waters

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Illegal ‘white gold,’ South Africa’s abalone, pouring into Hong Kong: TRAFFIC

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Indonesian police bust Chinese nationals with 200 kg of turtle shells

Wahyu Chandra 12 Feb 2018

Code for cod and tech for tuna at the 2018 Fishackathon

Colleen O'Brien 8 Feb 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018

Indonesia buckles to protests against seine fishing ban

Basten Gokkon 25 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017
Members of the Kep provincial government and Fisheries Administration set fire to a mound of banned fishing gear in July 2015. The gear had been confiscated over a period of months from Cambodian and Vietnamese vessels operating illegally in Kep Bay, and was burned in front of a village notorious for abusing the law and the sea. Photo courtesy of MCC.

Building a refuge where trawlers now ravage Cambodia’s marine life

Matt Blomberg 14 Dec 2017
White’s seahorse (Hippocampus whitei). This species is listed as Data Deficient by the IUCN, and was previously listed as Vulnerable, but there have been too few studies to say whether it remains at risk in the wild. Photo by Sylke Rohrlach via Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.0].

Catch-all fisheries are squeezing Asia’s seahorses

Sean Mowbray 1 Dec 2017

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2017

Trade in silky and thresher sharks now to be strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017

Second Irrawaddy dolphin death in Borneo linked to fishing nets

Yovanda 3 Oct 2017
Coral flourescing, a reaction to stressful conditions

Capturing the wonder and vulnerability of coral reefs in real-time: Q & A with the director of “Chasing Coral”

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Sep 2017

Citizen scientists use mobile apps to help “green” the ocean

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Sep 2017
Whale shark off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Sep 2017

Indonesia’s decision to share vessel tracking data ‘ill-advised,’ some say

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2017

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