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Coral bleaching events cause behavioral changes in key reef fish species

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2018
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

$10bn pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2018

Deep reefs were not spared by 2016 mass bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 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

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Gloria Dickie 22 Aug 2018

Predatory coral bring down jellyfish by working together

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2018

Ocean acidity stifles coral-anchored communities

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2018

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

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

John Cannon 26 Jul 2018

Coral reefs thrive next to rat-free islands, new study finds

John Cannon 11 Jul 2018

On India’s Kerala coast, a man-made solution exacerbates a natural problem

Haritha John 28 Jun 2018

2018 Arctic sea ice melt season just got a big headstart

Gloria Dickie 19 Jun 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 3 May 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018

2018 Tyler Prize awarded to two US-based biological oceanographers

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018
Mantaray, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 31 Jan 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Scientists say some climate change impacts already unavoidable, but worst can still be averted

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jan 2018
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley, Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017
A boat load of cut mangroves. High-quality charcoal made from mangroves is exported to Thailand. Photo by Christoph Zockler.

Chainsaws imperil an old-growth mangrove stronghold in southern Myanmar

Benjamin Graham 27 Dec 2017

UN General Assembly adopts resolution to move forward with high seas treaty negotiations

Mike Gaworecki 26 Dec 2017

Brazil / UK push offshore oil pact, a potential climate change disaster

Jenny Gonzales 13 Dec 2017

Critically endangered staghorn corals are benefiting from coral gardening in the Caribbean

Mike Gaworecki 9 Aug 2017

UN moves one step closer to convening high seas treaty negotiations

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2017

Antarctica’s Larsen C calves giant 5,800 square kilometer iceberg

Gloria Dickie 12 Jul 2017
A male southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) among king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Marion Island. Photo by Nico de Bruyn.

Hard but worth it: researchers fight invasives on Subantarctic islands (commentary)

P.J.N. (Nico) de Bruyn 29 Jun 2017

Field Notes: Pond turtle studies could help sea turtles survive toxic algal blooms

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jun 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

Climate change may be choking the ocean’s oxygen supply, study shows

Mic Smith 5 Jun 2017

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