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In the dark of the night, sponges help possum shrimp ‘smell’ their way home

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

As climate change hits the Turkish coast, more marine reserves are needed (commentary)

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

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

Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas

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

Love ‘em and loathe ‘em: Mediterranean grapples with tasty, voracious invasive crabs

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds

‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Despite deals, plans and bans, the Mediterranean is awash in plastic

Israel-U.A.E. pipeline deal ‘invitation to disaster’ for globally important corals

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction

This Mediterranean seagrass filters plastic waste — but it’s also under threat

Sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ in many global reef systems, study finds

In ocean biodiversity hotspots, microplastics come with the currents

For the Mediterranean, the Suez is a wormhole bringing in alien invaders

Beaked whales’ stealth behavior gives clues to mystery of mass stranding

Sponges supply DNA for new method of monitoring aquatic biodiversity

In Malta, legal loopholes give poachers cover to hunt migratory birds

Drone 3D models help assess risk of turtle nesting beaches to sea level rise

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

Ongoing rise in sea levels will increase threats to World Heritage Sites

Predatory coral bring down jellyfish by working together

Over 50% of sharks and rays in the Mediterranean Sea are at risk of extinction

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

A small European island teaches conservation through its herbs and spices

Success! Biologists may have found a way to eliminate amphibian-killing fungus in the wild

Does conservation work? Using the IUCN Red List to evaluate groups’ performance

Scientists uncover new marine mammal genus, represented by single endangered species

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