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An art installation by Saype portraying plastic pollution.

UN Paris meeting presses ahead with binding plastics treaty — U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 9 Jun 2023

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera | Davide Mancini | Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023
A bowhead mother and calf in the Arctic Ocean.

Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 May 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023
During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
Coral Reef at Marsa Gozlani site, Sharm el Shekh, Egypt

Global Ocean Census aims to find 100,000 marine species in 10 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2023

Parasites of the Caribbean: Study pinpoints cause of sea urchin die-off

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Apr 2023

Norway proposes opening Germany-sized area of its continental shelf to deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2023
Farah Obaidullah holds a fish on a fishing boat.

Bringing the ocean’s vast ‘awesomeness’ to light: Q&A with Farah Obaidullah

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2023

Deep-sea mining meeting closes without resolving whether mining can start in July

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
A polar bear surveys its icy Arctic surroundings.

Southern atmospheric rivers drive irreversible melting of Arctic sea ice: Study

Alec Luhn 23 Mar 2023
Dutch windmills in Zaanse Schans, Zaanstad.

Sea level rise looms, even for the best-prepared country on Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Mar 2023

‘Plasticosis’: the new disease killing seabirds and likely many other species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2023

Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

Edward Carver 7 Mar 2023

Panama ocean conference draws $20 billion, marine biodiversity commitments

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Mar 2023

Experts pushing for high-seas fishing ban win ‘Nobel Prize for environment’

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2023
Traditional fishing boats on a Lombok beach.

On Lombok, rising sea levels force fishers into different jobs

Falahi Mubarok 20 Feb 2023

An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2023
Blue starfish in coral reef.

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

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
A whale shark swimming with remoras.

2022’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Aaron Roan, Callie Leiphardt, Douglas McCauley, Neil Nathan, Rachel Rhodes 29 Dec 2022
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

Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron.

France’s Macron joins growing chorus calling for deep-sea mining ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Nov 2022

Negotiations to conserve Antarctic Ocean end in stalemate on many issues

Francesco De Augustinis 7 Nov 2022
Penguins in the Antarctic.

Fish-feed industry turns to krill, with unknown effects on the Antarctic ecosystem

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Oct 2022

Heat-sensing drone cameras spy threats to sea turtle nests

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2022
A dolphin swims a little distance away from the race.

Proposal to grant the ocean rights calls for a sea change in legal framework

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Oct 2022
Close up of men chanting at a protest in Cayar, Senegal. Image © Greenpeace / Annika Hammerschlag.

Fished out at sea and smoked out on land, Senegal fishers take on a fishmeal factory

Lawon Olalekan 6 Oct 2022

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 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

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