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Indonesian illegal shark and ray exports remain rampant amid poor monitoring

Asad Asnawi 8 Aug 2023
A small-scale fisher from Madagascar.

Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2023

Study: Protecting marine life is a big benefit to local communities, too

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2023

Prickly babies: A Jamaican nursery aims to restore sea urchins felled by disease

Gladstone Taylor 3 Aug 2023
Close up of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in clear, aquamarine-tinged water with corals, its shell just meeting its own rippling reflection on the surface . Image by Jim Frodel via Flickr (CC BY-2.0)

Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass

Sean Mowbray 2 Aug 2023
Hervé Berville, France’s state secretary for the sea.

‘The deep sea is vital to protect the ocean’: Q&A with France’s Hervé Berville

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2023

Plastic ‘Frankenrocks’ pose new pollution threat to coastal environment

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023

Photos: Sri Lanka’s Kalametiya lagoon draws tourists to see native and migrant birds

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Jul 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023
The endangered greater green leafbird

Study: More than 900 at-risk species lack international trade protections

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2023
Seabed ecosystem.

Deep-sea mining meetings conclude after stalemate on key agenda items

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2023
Trapang Ropov community members load a concrete pillar onto a raft.

‘Mud, muck and death’: Cambodia’s plan to obstruct trawlers and revive local fishing

Matt Blomberg 27 Jul 2023
Sea fan in the deep ocean.

Deep-sea mining rules delayed two more years; mining start remains unclear

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jul 2023
The dumbo octopus is a species only found in the deep sea. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.

Scores of parliamentarians renew opposition to deep-sea mining at international meeting (commentary)

Caroline Roose, Marie Toussaint 25 Jul 2023

Offshore oil plans in Brazil threaten South America’s largest coral reef

Luan Matheus Santana, Agência Pública 24 Jul 2023

Seaweed farmers in eastern Indonesia struggle in a changing climate

Jaya Barends 23 Jul 2023
Pulau Tioman

Airport proposal for Malaysian island doesn’t fly with conservationists

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2023

Scientists: Fishing boats compete with whales and penguins for Antarctic krill

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Jul 2023
A fish in a plastic glove.

Clean me a river: Southeast Asia chokes on Mekong plastic pollution

Juliette Portala 18 Jul 2023
The Txori Argi fishing trawler in port.

West African fishers strike for fair wages and ‘respect’ on EU-owned vessels

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Jul 2023
A leatherback hatchling.

Tag team effort brings tech to aid leatherback turtle conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jul 2023
Blacktip reef shark, French Polynesia. Image by Hannes Klostermann / Ocean Image Bank

Sharks deserve our appreciation and protection (commentary)

Assaf Levy 13 Jul 2023

Calls grow to put the brakes on deep-sea mining as countries discuss rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Jul 2023
A puffin with a beakful of sand eels. Dogger Bank has a unique biodiverse ecosystem rich in sand eels that supports North Sea food webs, including seabird populations. Image by Steve Higgins via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

How to ‘flip’ a paper park: Success in the North Sea carries lessons

Edward Carver 11 Jul 2023

Opposition grows to Indonesia’s resumption of sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon, Sarjan Lahay 8 Jul 2023
A pod of sperm whales.

Keep it down: U.N. report lists ways to reduce ocean noise pollution

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
Wandering albatross on Marion Island.

S. Africa to purge bird-eating mice from key albatross breeding island

Leonie Joubert 5 Jul 2023
Newly found deep-sea octopus nursery

Deep-sea expedition reveals rare octo-nurseries off Costa Rica

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jul 2023
A seagrass meadow in St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Image courtesy of Lewis Jefferies.

Blue carbon deserves a green light for the climate fight (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Jul 2023
A fisher in Fiji.

Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2023

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