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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, 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, 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

The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to bounce back from disturbances

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Fish find it harder to smell in acidic oceans, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Jul 2018

Acidifying oceans a bad trip for marine ecosystems

Alexandra Popescu 17 Oct 2017
Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Photo by Greg Asner/www.Divephoto.org.

Can marine reserves help counteract climate change?

Kim Smuga-Otto 8 Jun 2017

Economic impacts of climate change on global fisheries could be worse than we thought

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

Ocean warming is “greatest hidden challenge of our generation,” according to IUCN

Mike Gaworecki 6 Sep 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

2015’s top 10 developments for the ocean

Douglas McCauley 31 Dec 2015

Scientists say frozen methane deposits off the coast of the US Pacific Northwest might be melting

Mike Gaworecki 16 Oct 2015

Good news! Some corals show surprising resilience to ocean acidification

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Oct 2015

Arctic Ocean acidifies, threatening food web and major fisheries

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 14 Jul 2015

Chemical clues in fossil shells may help us understand today’s ocean acidification

Brendan Bane 4 Feb 2015

Fishing industry could lose up to $41 billion due to climate change

Victor Montoro 16 Jan 2015

Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2015

‘We are running out of time’: CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere surprise scientists

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2014

Extreme cold and drought in U.S. linked to climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2014

Underwater horrors: shells of marine life melting off the coast of the U.S.

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2014

Apocalypse now? Climate change already damaging agriculture, acidifying seas, and worsening extreme weather

Jeremy Hance 31 Mar 2014

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