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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
A puffin flying.

For threatened seabirds of NE Atlantic, climate change piles on the pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jan 2023
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
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
A howling wolf

Animating the Carbon Cycle: Earth’s animals vital allies in CO2 storage

Mark Hillsdon 8 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
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
Arctic sea ice melts.

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

Alec Luhn 24 Oct 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
small reef fish

A ‘super reef’ recovery raises hopes — but also questions about its resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Oct 2022

2022: Another consequential year for the melting Arctic

Sharon Guynup 23 Sep 2022
Deploying a weather balloon

Agulhas Current enigma: An oceanic gap in our climate understanding

Petro Kotzé 21 Sep 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
A moray eel among corals

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Sep 2022
A manta ray with diver.

Study paints ‘bleak picture’ for nearly all marine life without emissions cuts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2022
Fishermen haul their catch from the boat.

In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers

Tonggo Simangunsong 16 Aug 2022
Residents of Satkhira's coastal communities.

As stronger storms hit Bangladesh farmers, banks are climate collateral damage

Maksuda Aziz 15 Aug 2022

Climate change and overfishing threaten once ‘endless’ Antarctic krill

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Aug 2022

Love ‘em and loathe ‘em: Mediterranean grapples with tasty, voracious invasive crabs

Guia Baggi 10 Aug 2022
Bluefins sizing up a school of anchovies.

Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2022
Debbie Ngawera-Packer.

‘The sea means everything’: Q&A with deep-sea mining opponent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022
Manta rays with reef fish.

‘Tendrils of hope’ for the ocean: Q&A with conservationist Charles Clover

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2022
Cold water corals in the deep sea.

How will climate change impact cold-water corals? Mostly through food loss, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jun 2022
Fishing in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch

Ashoka Mukpo 24 May 2022

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