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From exporting coral to restoring reefs, a Madagascar startup rethinks business

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Critics push for more transparency at RFMOs that govern high seas fishing

Ocean heating breaks record, again, with disastrous outcomes for the planet

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

How much carbon does ocean trawling put into the atmosphere?

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

‘Really a sad day’ as Norway votes to allow deep-sea mining in Arctic waters

Fisheries observer turns up dead in latest incident in Ghana waters

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientists declare the first marine fish extinction

U.S. auctions off endangered whale habitat for oil and gas drilling

Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

Did the tides turn for oceans at COP28? Climate summit draws mixed reviews

Philippines oil spill may reverberate long after cleanup declared complete

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

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

‘Very good progress’ but nothing firm as deep-sea mining rules are hashed out

Not MPAs but OECMs: Can a new designation help conserve the ocean?

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

New Caledonia expands strictly protected coverage of its swath of the Pacific

Climate refugees? As the sea warms, corals thrive in Japan’s cool waters

Record North Atlantic heat sees phytoplankton decline, fish shift to Arctic

As oceans warm, marine heat waves push deep beneath the surface, study shows

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

‘Totally unsustainable’ sand mining harms marine environments, new data suggest

Sensing tech used in oil pipelines can also track Arctic sea ice, study shows

Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting resurgent PNG project

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

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener Katana Ngala

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

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