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Indonesia creates three marine protected areas within Coral Triangle

Mahmud Ichi 10 Apr 2019

Belize to nearly triple area under strict marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Apr 2019

Indonesia oil slicks highlight weak enforcement against bilge dumping

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2019
Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019

Ascension, the Atlantic ‘Galápagos,’ to get massive marine reserve

Sophie Manson 27 Mar 2019

Study maps where tunas, sharks and fishing ships meet

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2019

World’s fastest shark, and many others, edge toward extinction

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2019

Indonesia investigates mass shark deaths at captive-breeding facility

Jay Fajar, M Ambari 22 Mar 2019

Sea otters leave behind unique archaeological traces, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

Indonesia’s tuna fisheries seek out sustainability certification

Basten Gokkon 15 Mar 2019

‘Like seeing a dinosaur’: Scientists locate mystery killer whales

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2019

Putting the Blue in the Green New Deal (commentary)

David Helvarg, Jason Scorse 13 Mar 2019
Artisanal Indonesian fishermen are expected to benefit from the fisheries bill proposed by the ministry. Image courtesy of Ministry of Marine and Fisheries.

For fisheries activists, Indonesian candidates offer little to work with

Basten Gokkon, Jay Fajar, M Ambari 13 Mar 2019
The Flipflopi under sail from Watamu to Kilifi, Kenya. Image by Anthony Langat for Mongabay.

Flip-flop-clad boat brings plastic recycling message to East African coast

Anthony Langat 8 Mar 2019

Seahorse trade continues despite export bans, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Mar 2019

Fries with that shark? U.K. chippies found selling threatened species

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019

Deadly disease and warming ocean are wiping out a key starfish species

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

After a year of no babies, 3 right whale calves spotted off U.S. coast

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

‘Everything’s moving’: Indonesia seeks global pushback on illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 Jan 2019

Top 10 happy environmental stories of 2018

Basten Gokkon 31 Dec 2018

China seizes totoaba swim bladders worth $26 million, arrests 16

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2018

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018

Deep-sea survey of Australian marine parks reveals striking species

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018

Argentina creates two new marine parks to protect penguins, sea lions

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2018

Whale stress levels influenced by human activity, earwax study suggests

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2018

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018

Turtles exposed to record levels of microplastics on Mediterranean beaches

Nora Ward 23 Nov 2018

New picture of coral reef health opens avenues for saving them

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

Panama, Namibia plan to reveal fishing fleet data via online map

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2018
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

$10bn pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2018

Agreement bans commercial fishing across much of the Arctic, for now

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2018

Largely banned industrial chemicals could wipe out killer whales, study warns

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2018

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