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Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

Nations vulnerable to global warming present demands: carbon levels below 350ppm and billions in aid

Coral reef troubles indicate broader ecological problems

California’s great white sharks are a distinct population

Atlantic bluefin tuna should be banned internationally: ICCAT scientists

The Yangtze River may have lost another inhabitant: the Chinese paddlefish

Protests over tuna industry development plans in Papua New Guinea

Satellite lasers show melting of Greenland, Antarctic worse than expected

New species of ghostshark discovered off California’s coast

Whale skeleton reveals species unknown to science

Photos: new deep sea species discovered off the Canary Islands

On the edge of extinction, Fiji petrels observed at sea for the first time

Huge demand for omega-3 fatty acids depleting oceans worldwide for aquaculture

Sea levels set to rise as Arctic warming replaces millennia long natural cooling cycle

Plastic pollution in oceans inspires international event

No killing yet as season begins for dolphin slaughter made famous by The Cove

Political heat rising on climate change, but does the United States feel it?

Oil spill off Australia potential ‘disaster’ for marine wildlife

Plastic Vortexes Leaching Chemicals into World’s Oceans

Hardly indestructible, plastics begin decomposing in ocean within a year, spreading harmful chemicals

No escape from mercury for US fish

Newly discovered deep sea worms throw bioluminescent ‘bombs’

Record global ocean temperature in July

Biofuel company eyes dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico for creating fish-powered fuel

Loss of Great Barrier Reef due to global warming would cost Australia $37.7 billion

Greenpeace drops boulders in Swedish waters to protect marine life from bottom trawling

Increasing pollution in US beaches

Global fisheries begin to show signs of recovery where management is strong

Extinction debt can last millions of years

Global ocean temperatures at warmest level since 1880

Global warming may be causing animals to shrink

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