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Researchers find dramatic restoration on land and sea after island rat removal

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jun 2026

New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap

Naina Rao 21 May 2026
Sperm Whales Up Close Underwater in Indian Ocean, Western Australia. Photo credit: © Alex Westover

The ocean’s enforcement gap

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Mar 2026
A child touches a freshly caught albacore tuna in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, in January 2024. Image by AP Photo/Daniel Cole.

Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore & seabirds

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2025

Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands

Bobby Bascomb 3 Oct 2025
Keith Davis, an American fisheries observer, disappeared on a Taiwanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged vessel in 2015. Image courtesy of Mark Benjamin.

‘Fatal Watch’: Interview with documentary makers on fisheries observer deaths

Edward Carver 20 Mar 2025
A yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares). Experts debate the impact of marine protected areas (MPAs) on tuna populations. Image by Ellen Cuylaerts / Ocean Image Bank.

Study finds signs of tuna abundance outside marine protected areas

Edward Carver 3 Mar 2025

Marshall Islands protects ‘pristine’ Pacific corals with first marine sanctuary

Shanna Hanbury 28 Jan 2025
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024
Clown fish in anemone

The ocean ‘belongs to all of us’: Interview with Palau President Whipps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Sep 2024
Alson Kelen on a U.S. airstrip runway. Image by Mark Klett/Cape Farewell.

Marshallese worries span decades — first nuclear tests, now sea-level rise

Amélie David 29 May 2024
An aerial view of the Palau archipelago.

Palau is the first nation to ratify treaty to protect high seas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2024
A coral reef in southern Pacific.

Hope, but no free pass, as Pacific corals show tolerance to warming oceans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Aug 2023
small reef fish

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Oct 2022
Fishermen in a small boat at sea in Koror, Palau.

Scaling Palauan tradition to regional fisheries: Q&A with Noah Idechong

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2022
Fish_coral reef_Egypt

Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2022
Bikini Atoll coral diversity

Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2022

Conservation nation: How Palau protects its reefs and waters (commentary)

Ed Warner 6 Mar 2020
Coral garden on the bow of the Saratoga. Photo by Greg Asner.

Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Greg Asner 28 Apr 2019

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018
Patrolling sharks on a post-nuclear reef. Image by Greg Asner.

The search for survivors in a post-nuclear reefscape

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 10 Sep 2018

Kiribati confronts climate upheaval by preparing for ‘migration with dignity’

Kayla Walsh 11 Jul 2017

Watching for Illegal Fishing with Eyes on the Seas

Julia John 14 Mar 2016

Want to end illegal fishing? Make all ships trackable, say researchers

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

2015’s top 10 developments for the ocean

Douglas McCauley 31 Dec 2015

Papua fires send haze to Micronesia; Indonesia elections commission hints at environment debate

Mongabay Haze Beat 19 Oct 2015

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 May 2014

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

Bobbie Edwards 8 Apr 2014

Corals thriving despite acidified conditions in remote Pacific bay

Tanya Dimitrova 25 Feb 2014

First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2013

Pacific islanders are the ‘victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions’

Claudine Wéry 15 May 2013

U.S. Admiral: climate change, not North Korea, biggest threat in the Pacific

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2013

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