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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

Commitments worth $63 billion pledged for ocean protection

Monica Evans 28 Oct 2019

Once close to extinction, western South Atlantic humpback population close to full recovery

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2019

Study finds massive reorganization of life across Earth’s ecosystems

John Cannon 21 Oct 2019

For the Philippines, a warming world means stronger typhoons, fewer fish

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2019

IPCC special report finds oceans and cryosphere changing rapidly due to global warming

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2019

‘The Blob’ is back: Pacific heat wave already second-largest in recent history

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2019

The Arctic and climate change (1979 – 2019): What the ice record tells us

Gloria Dickie 18 Sep 2019

2019 in line for second lowest Arctic sea ice extent record

Gloria Dickie 19 Aug 2019

A Philippine community that once ate giant clams now works to protect them

Leilani Chavez 31 Jul 2019

June 2019 was the hottest on record: NOAA

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2019

Study examines how the Atlantic surfclam is successfully adapting to climate change

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019

Arctic in free fall: 2019 sea ice volume sinks to near record for June

Gloria Dickie 11 Jul 2019

Arctic sea ice extent just hit a record low for early June; worse may come

Gloria Dickie 12 Jun 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019
Coral garden on the bow of the Saratoga. Photo by Greg Asner.

Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Greg Asner 28 Apr 2019

Ocean winds, wave heights have increased around the world

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

Arctic in trouble: Sea ice melt falls to record lows for early April

Gloria Dickie 11 Apr 2019
A loggerhead turtle swims around a fish aggregation device belonging to the Ecuadorean fishing vessel Ingalapagos. Greenpeace says it documented the vessel in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands. Image by © Alex Hofford / Greenpeace.

30 percent by 2030? Study maps out how to protect the world’s oceans

Taran Volckhausen 11 Apr 2019

Ocean acidification could impact Atlantic cod populations more severely than previously thought

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2019

‘Managed resilience’ not a successful strategy for conserving coral reefs, researchers find

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2019

As Arctic neared 2019 winter max, Bering Sea was virtually ice-free

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2019

New MPA established in Philippines includes community-led monitoring program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2019

Our brains can lead us astray when making ‘eco-friendly’ decisions

Mongabay.com 4 Mar 2019

Blue whales remember best times and places to find prey

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2019

2018 was the fourth hottest year on record

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2019

Deadly disease and warming ocean are wiping out a key starfish species

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

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