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A ray swims over seagrass in Australia.

As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection

Sean Mowbray 26 Jun 2025
The world’s oceans naturally absorb vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

Sean Mowbray 20 Dec 2024
Coral reef in Sombrero Island, Philippines.

Coral reefs could survive climate change, but in altered state, study says

Keith Anthony Fabro 5 Dec 2024
A jellyfish swims in the sun in the mangroves.

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Sean Mowbray 23 Sep 2024
A sea turtle in Ningaloo Reef, Australia.

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Glenn Scherer 13 Aug 2024

‘Our life support system is at risk’: Interview with ‘Her Deepness’ Sylvia Earle

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2024
A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Is ocean iron fertilization back from the dead as a CO₂ removal tool?

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
A fish in a plastic glove.

Clean me a river: Southeast Asia chokes on Mekong plastic pollution

Juliette Portala 18 Jul 2023
Blue starfish in coral reef.

Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2023
Macroalgae and sea anemones.

Hunting for future-proof marine plants in the acidic waters bathing a volcano

Guia Baggi 28 Dec 2022
A sea butterfly (Limacina helicina) whose shell has been weakened by ocean acidification. (NOAA Photo Library, CC-BY-2.0)

Melting ice created the perfect storm for a rapidly acidifying Arctic Ocean

Luis Melecio-Zambrano 7 Dec 2022
Arctic sea ice melts.

Arctic sea ice loss to increase strong El Niño events linked to extreme weather: Study

Alec Luhn 24 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 hogfish in the coral reefs

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Sep 2022

In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back of a hermit crab

Liz Kimbrough 2 Aug 2022
Sugar kelp hanging on its growing lines. Image courtesy of Claudia Geib for Mongabay.

‘The return of land to Indigenous people is key’: Q&A with Shinnecock Kelp Farm’s Tela Troge

Claudia Geib 20 Jun 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

In hot water: Ocean warming hits another record high on climate change

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Jan 2022
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Sep 2021

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Claire Asher 30 Mar 2021

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Nov 2020

They outlived dinosaurs, but can glass sponge reefs survive man-made warming?

Francesca Edralin 11 Aug 2020

Ocean deoxygenation could be silently killing coral reefs, scientists say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Apr 2020

2019’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 25 Dec 2019
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef near the Whitsunday Islands. Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-56257 was acquired on October 12, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 1150 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. Courtesy of NASA/JSC.

Protecting living corals could help defend the Great Barrier Reef from ocean acidification for decades

Ariana Remmel 6 Dec 2019

Small-scale women seaweed farmers ride the rough tides of climate change

Imelda Abano 3 Jun 2019

Ocean acidification could impact Atlantic cod populations more severely than previously thought

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2019

Ocean warming projected to accelerate more than four-fold over next 60 years: Study

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jan 2019
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

High sea levels thousands of years ago aided island formation

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2018

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