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Local women participating in the economic value conservation activities.

Failed mangrove tourism project in Sumatra highlights need for community collaboration

Barita News Lumbanbatu 16 Feb 2023
A pod of humpback whales.

Potential impact on whales overlooked as deep-sea mining looks set to start, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Feb 2023

Costa Rica announces ban on fishing of hammerhead sharks

Maxwell Radwin 10 Feb 2023
Oceanographer Canyon, creating an ideal microhabitat for a deep-water coral community and a couple of octopus. Image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, 2013 Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition.

Win for science as BP pressured into cleaning up offshore gas plans

Elodie Toto 9 Feb 2023

X-Press Pearl salvage continues as study shows toxic effects of disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Feb 2023
Rivers of metlwater on Greenland's ice sheet

‘Not a good sign’: Study shows Greenland temperatures at 1,000-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2023

Critics allege EU’s ‘toxic collusion’ with fishing lobbies is damaging Indian Ocean tuna

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Feb 2023
Blacktip sharks and remoras.

Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation

Cassie Freund 6 Feb 2023
A southern stingray.

Good fisheries management, if enforced, can help sharks and rays recover

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Feb 2023

An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2023
Kelly Banda (center, standing) with volunteers and community members.

‘The Mangrove Guy’: Q&A with Kelly Roberts Banda, Kenya’s lawyer-conservationist

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 2 Feb 2023
A coral reef in Thailand.

Thai government turns its sights on illegal coral trade

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Feb 2023

Mongabay Explains: What’s the difference between artisanal and industrial fishing?

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023

Indonesia opens its ‘ocean account’ for sustainable marine management

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2023
A fisherman looks for crabs.

On Sumatra coast, mangrove clearing sparks scrutiny of loophole

Teguh Suprayitno 30 Jan 2023

The dark side of light: Coastal urban lighting threatens marine life, study shows

Juliette Portala 27 Jan 2023
Golden snub-nosed monkey are listed as an endangered species by the IUCN. Photo by Jack Hynes / Wikimedia Commons.

In wake of ‘natural’ disasters, not reducing biodiversity loss is a big missed opportunity (commentary)

Roger S. Pulwarty 26 Jan 2023
Drone view of a salmon farm.

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Jan 2023
North Atlantic right whale mother and calf.

U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jan 2023
Blue starfish in coral reef.

Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2023
Humboldt penguins in Peru. Image by Víctor Bautista via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Chile’s denial of Dominga port project is a just energy transition victory and lesson (commentary)

Daniel Gajardo 24 Jan 2023

FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses

Eko Rusdianto 24 Jan 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023
Thai reefer Precious 9.

Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2023

Venezuela’s oil spill crisis reached new heights in 2022: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2023
Fishes in a coral reef.

Invasive rats topple ecological domino that affects reef fish behavior

John Cannon 20 Jan 2023
A puffin flying.

For threatened seabirds of NE Atlantic, climate change piles on the pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jan 2023

More than half of reef sharks and rays threatened with extinction, study shows

Basten Gokkon 17 Jan 2023
Seaweed harvesting in the Philippines.

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Jewel S. Cabrera 17 Jan 2023
A group of traditional fishermen in small boats catching fish in the waters of Maluku.

More marine protected areas planned for Indonesia’s Maluku after 2022 spree

Nurdin Tubaka 16 Jan 2023
A local fisherman pushing his canoe in the polluted waters.

Fishers on Indonesia’s Batam Island suffer as mangrove cover declines

Yogi Eka Sahputra 16 Jan 2023
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

Deliberate dumping of plastic trash in the Pacific: How widespread is it? (commentary)

Saam Shams 12 Jan 2023

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