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New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)

Katarzyna Nowak 27 Feb 2018

Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve

Jack Elliot Marley 27 Feb 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018

New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Coral reef monitoring takes to the skies: drone-mounted hyperspectral cameras help scientists assess health of coral reefs

Colleen O'Brien 19 Feb 2018

Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2018

Queen conch dying out in the Bahamas despite marine parks

Jim Tan 16 Feb 2018

Drones enable fast, accurate wildlife counts, study shows

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Feb 2018

Duterte orders navy to fire on foreign poachers in Philippine waters

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Illegal ‘white gold,’ South Africa’s abalone, pouring into Hong Kong: TRAFFIC

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Indonesian police bust Chinese nationals with 200 kg of turtle shells

Wahyu Chandra 12 Feb 2018

Whale of a tale: Protecting Panama’s humpbacks from ship collisions

Andrew J. Wight 8 Feb 2018

Code for cod and tech for tuna at the 2018 Fishackathon

Colleen O'Brien 8 Feb 2018
A fish die off from chemical spill in Vietnam in 2016. Photo via Maisondelinspir.

Vietnamese activist gets 14-year sentence for documenting chemical spill

Mongabay 8 Feb 2018

The cutting-edge technologies allowing us to monitor ecosystems like never before

Mike Gaworecki 6 Feb 2018
A boy uses several mosquito nets to catch fish in the coastal waters near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by R.C. Browmick.

Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Benjamin Graham 6 Feb 2018
Mantaray, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 31 Jan 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Jack Elliot Marley 26 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Indonesia buckles to protests against seine fishing ban

Basten Gokkon 25 Jan 2018

David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for human survival

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jan 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018
Black-spotted Nudibranch (Ceratophyllidia papilligera). Photo by Nick Hobgood/via Wikimedia Commons.

Haiti’s most popular ecotourism destinations

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018

Belize imposes offshore oil moratorium to protect reefs

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018
Pacific bluefin tuna. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $323,000. Can the species be saved?

Bonnie Waycott 12 Jan 2018

Lessons from Indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Trump Admin officially proposes opening vast areas of U.S. coastal waters to oil and gas drilling

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jan 2018

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