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Wisdom, world’s oldest known wild bird, is a mother again at 68

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2019

A nature and reptile enthusiast’s Southern California love story (insider)

Dave Martin 12 Feb 2019

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

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019
Image via Putneypics/Flickr.

Indigenous peoples unite in fight to heal the Salish Sea

Lauren Crothers 1 Feb 2019
A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Octopus farming unsustainable, unethical, and unnecessary, scientists warn

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

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

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019
Hiking through the tiny village of Doong in central Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Current threats and future hopes for the greater Mekong’s mangroves

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2019

Warmer waters shrink krill habitat around Antarctica

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2019

Climate change is making waves stronger and putting coastlines at risk

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2019

Marine mammal and sea turtle populations benefitting from Endangered Species Act listing

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2019

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

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

IUCN’s Inger Andersen: “Women represent 3.5 billion solutions”

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jan 2019

A ‘FitBit for squid’ could help track the ocean’s squishier species

Marianne Messina 21 Jan 2019

Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

Antarctica now shedding ice six times faster than in 1979

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2019
Saravanan points to a large salt pan, part of Ennore Creek in the city of Chennai. The nearby port’s plan to convert the area into industrial real estate sparked protests among fishing communities in 2016. Image by Mahima Jain.

Protecting India’s fishing villages: Q&A with ‘maptivist’ Saravanan

Mahima Jain 10 Jan 2019

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

Basten Gokkon 6 Jan 2019

Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jan 2019

Cyclone harmed Fijian crab fishery in 2016, research finds

Mongabay.com 3 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

Japan leaving IWC, to resume commercial whaling

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2018
Marine life in Papua New Guinea. Image by martinnemo via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

After the loss of a ship, deep sea mining plans for PNG founder

David Hutt 26 Dec 2018

A development project in a Bali mangrove bay gets a new lease on life

Basten Gokkon 25 Dec 2018

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

Every sea turtle in global study found to have synthetic fibers and microplastics in their guts

Mike Gaworecki 21 Dec 2018

The female park rangers protecting turtles from traffickers in Nicaragua

Monica Pelliccia 21 Dec 2018

Deep-sea survey of Australian marine parks reveals striking species

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018

U.S. whale entanglement figures steady in 2017

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018

Hobby-grade drones can monitor marine animals beneath the surface

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Dec 2018

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