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Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2020

Arctic Sea ice melts to second-place finish at annual minimum

Gloria Dickie 21 Sep 2020

Hawaiian reefs lost almost half their fish to pollution and fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2020

In Brazil, human action and climate change are drowning a community

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

App harnesses citizen power to keep tabs on Philippines’ coral reefs

Jen Chan 27 Jul 2020

As reef bleaching intensifies, lab-grown corals could help beat the heat

Johan Augustin 23 Jul 2020

Sea temperature a critical factor in success of coral reef outplants

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jul 2020

Climate conundrum: Could COVID-19 be linked to early Arctic ice melt?

Gloria Dickie 8 Jun 2020

Economists put a price tag on living whales in Brazil: $82 billion

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2020

Philippines bids farewell to satellite that launched enviro policy into the space age

Rosy Mina 12 May 2020

Climate change makes some fish smaller, and others bigger, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2020

Ocean deoxygenation could be silently killing coral reefs, scientists say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Apr 2020

Ocean optimism: Study says we can restore marine health

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest bleaching event yet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020

Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts: Study

Gloria Dickie 1 Apr 2020

For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Erwin M. Mascariñas 31 Mar 2020

New right whale protection measures announced by Canadian government

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2020
Fishing boat, Inhambane, Mozambique. Image by Gus McLeod via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

East Africa’s reefs being fished at unsustainable rates, study finds

Jim Tan 5 Mar 2020

Climate fix? ‘Fertilizing’ oceans with iron unlikely to sequester more carbon

Monica Evans 4 Mar 2020

Listening to marine mammals is helping scientists understand Arctic impacts of climate change

Mongabay.com 24 Feb 2020

Managing fisheries helps stocks recover — most of the time

John Cannon 7 Feb 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

2019 was second-hottest year on record, 2010s hottest decade

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2020

2019’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 25 Dec 2019

10 noteworthy books on conservation and the environment from 2019

John Cannon 23 Dec 2019

Vanishing sea ice in the Arctic could shake up seabird migrations

John Cannon 11 Dec 2019

Canaries in the coal mine? North Atlantic right whale use of key habitat changing rapidly

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2019
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef near the Whitsunday Islands. Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-56257 was acquired on October 12, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 1150 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. Courtesy of NASA/JSC.

Protecting living corals could help defend the Great Barrier Reef from ocean acidification for decades

Ariana Remmel 6 Dec 2019

World is fast losing its cool: Polar regions in deep trouble, say scientists

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2019

Warming of Indo-Pacific waters disrupting weather worldwide, report finds

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2019

Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic opens new pathways for animal disease

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2019

What’s at stake after Chile cancels its hosting of COP25?

Michelle Carrere 1 Nov 2019

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