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In the Pacific depths, an underwater mountain hosts a bonanza of new species

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2024
A great white shark. Found frequently along the coasts of countries across the globe, white sharks also hunt on the high seas. Image by Pterantula (Terry Goss) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Social media influencers’ behavior with marine wildlife is risky for animals, too (commentary)

Erica Carone 1 Oct 2024

Celestún refuge fights illegal fishing & helps revive species in Mexico’s Yucatán

Astrid Arellano 1 Oct 2024

S. Korea dune merchant, 72, held over sand mining in Indonesia mangrove forest

Wahyu Chandra 30 Sep 2024

In Mexico, scientists race to save Marietas Islands’ corals from ocean warming

Agustín del Castillo 30 Sep 2024
Fishermen in Robertsport in 2009.

Plan for close season rings alarm bells for Liberia’s artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 26 Sep 2024
Shark and ray remains after their fins have been removed at Brondong Harbor, East Java.

Clock ticks on Indonesia shark skinners as predator population plunges

Asad Asnawi 25 Sep 2024
A loggerhead turtle hatchling on Al-Mansouri beach.

Amid haze of war, Lebanese activists helped turtle hatchlings journey to sea

Amélie David 25 Sep 2024
A Dutch super trawler fishing 30 miles off the coast of Mauritania. Image © Pierre Gleizes/Greenpeace. Greenpeace is campaigning in West Africa for the establishment of a sustainable, low impact fisheries policy that takes into account the needs and interests of small-scale fishermen and the local communities that depend on healthy oceans.

Global fisheries must change to avoid ocean collapse, study says

Shanna Hanbury 25 Sep 2024
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024
Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Image by Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

NGOs raise concerns over oil exploration in Republic of Congo national park

Didier Makal 24 Sep 2024

Five times more marine fish may be at risk of extinction: study

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2024
A jellyfish swims in the sun in the mangroves.

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Sean Mowbray 23 Sep 2024
Fish at a coral reef in Mexico.

Lab-grown corals resisted bleaching during Caribbean’s worst marine heat wave

Caitlin Cooper 19 Sep 2024

Fishing in a fog: Ship noise hampers orcas’ hunting success

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Sep 2024
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Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis.

Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis

Basten Gokkon, Nanang Sujana, Sandy Watt 16 Sep 2024

Northern elephant seals likely used sonar ‘dinner bell’ to find food

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Sep 2024
Clown fish in anemone

The ocean ‘belongs to all of us’: Interview with Palau President Whipps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Sep 2024

Maldives drops plan to reopen longline tuna fishing following protests

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2024

A Mexican marine park shelters giant manta rays: Interview with Madalena Pereira Cabral

Astrid Arellano 4 Sep 2024

Famous ‘spy’ beluga whale found dead in Norway

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2024

Wildlife-rich mangroves suffer as Indonesia ramps up construction of new capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2024

Six months after first Houthi ship sinking, attacks slick Red Sea with oil

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Sep 2024
A school of barracuda in Papua New Guinea.

Not merely ‘exploration’: PNG deep-sea mining riles critics & surprises officials

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2024
A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024

UK aid agency investing $35m in controversial DRC port

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2024

Sea lions with video cameras help scientists map ocean floor

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Aug 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024

South Africa seeks to settle landmark African penguin lawsuit

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Aug 2024

Argentina weighs new MPA to curb international fishing frenzy in ‘Blue Hole’

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2024

New species of skate is named, 35 years since its discovery off Madagascar

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2024

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