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Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 14 Oct 2022

As Indonesia protects more marine areas, top priority is management: experts

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2022
Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 13 Oct 2022
small reef fish

A ‘super reef’ recovery raises hopes — but also questions about its resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022

Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Oct 2022

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2022

‘Destructive & flawed’: Claire Nouvian on bottom trawling’s many impacts

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Oct 2022
A coral reef in Sharm el Sheikh

‘One more thing’ about plastics: They could be acidifying the ocean, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Oct 2022
A man in a boat in Bodo

Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2022
Mangroves in Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. Image by Anton Bielousov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mangrove restorers in Haiti bet on resilience amid rising violence

Conrad Fox 29 Sep 2022

Indonesian lobster larvae bound for Singapore reveal role of smuggling network

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 29 Sep 2022
An iceberg floats in Disko Bay, near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 24, 2015. The massive Greenland ice sheet is shedding about 300 gigatons of ice a year into the ocean, making it the single largest source of sea level rise from melting ice. Image by NASA/Saskia Madlener via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet

Moira Donovan 27 Sep 2022
Fish Loading and unloading activities.

Indonesia’s sustainable fisheries push sails into storm in Java Sea

Asad Asnawi 27 Sep 2022
A crew of cantrang fishermen unload their cargo.

Java fishers struggle with seine net ban amid rising costs, falling profits

Asad Asnawi 26 Sep 2022

2022: Another consequential year for the melting Arctic

Sharon Guynup 23 Sep 2022

Indonesia to update conservation efforts for aquarium favorite cardinalfish

Basten Gokkon 21 Sep 2022
A right whale and its calf.

U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale deaths

John Cannon 21 Sep 2022
The recently described box jellyfish

Sri Lankan study identifies new jellyfish, sparking interest in the species

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Sep 2022

Fish return to Southern Brazil after trawling ban

Naira Hofmeister 19 Sep 2022
A deep-sea fish.

Europe moves to protect deep-sea sites in Atlantic from bottom fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Sep 2022
Coral reef in Indonesia

Future reefs: A manifesto to save the world’s coral gardens (commentary)

Emily Darling, Simon Cripps 16 Sep 2022
A tripod fish

Regulator approves first deep-sea mining test, surprising observers

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2022

Sri Lanka eyes major compensation case over X-Press Pearl sinking

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Sep 2022
A hogfish in the coral reefs

Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Sep 2022
A moray eel among corals in the Mediterrarnean Sea. Image by Enrico Strocchi via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022
Fadly has created an avocado nursery.

An Indonesian rock star shines his light on mangroves, urban farming and more

Wahyu Chandra 8 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A turtle hatchling

In Indonesia’s West Sumbawa, tide turns on taste for turtle eggs

Fathul Rakhman 7 Sep 2022
A soft coral garden in west Greenland.

Greenland’s sustainable halibut fishery may threaten newfound corals, sponges

Amandas Ong 6 Sep 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Sep 2022
A blacktip reef shark swims among smaller fish

Maldives shark-fishing ban tested by ebbing support from small-scale fishers

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2022

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