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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 S. 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
A Royal Navy research vessel patrols Antarctica.

Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon

Elizabeth Devitt 18 Apr 2022
Fish_coral reef_Egypt

Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: Concerns rise as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2022

The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching — once again — and over a larger area

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Mar 2022

Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2022
Bikini Atoll coral diversity

Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2022

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Alec Luhn 22 Mar 2022

Vulnerable Antarctic reefs reveal wealth of life as rich as tropical corals

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Mar 2022
A view of former fishing village Fuveme from Havui. Image by Erica Ayisi for Mongabay.

As rising seas destroy Ghana’s coastal communities, researchers warn against a seawall-only solution

Erica Ayisi 4 Mar 2022

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