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Coral bleaching in Ningaloo, Australia, in February 2025. Image courtesy of Daniel Nicholson/Ocean Image Bank.

Ongoing global coral bleaching event affects 84% of world’s reefs

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2025
Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, captured Nov. 27, 2024. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.

Earth Day: The wonder of iconic satellite images

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Apr 2025
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

With deep-sea mining plans in limbo, Norwegian companies fold or dig in

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2025
The iconic Earthrise photograph, snapped by an Apollo 8 astronaut on the first manned mission to the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. Image courtesy of NASA.

Earth Day check-in: Planetary boundaries in peril

Bobby Bascomb 22 Apr 2025
Tagging commercially caught albacore offshore of Oregon, on the U.S. West Coast. Image courtesy of NOAA Fisheries. 

Sweeping cuts and deregulation imperil U.S. fisheries, experts warn

Edward Carver 21 Apr 2025

15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2025
Two North Atlantic right whales photographed in the Bahamas. Image courtesy of Jero Prieto/Pelagic Life.

Critically endangered right whales spotted in the Bahamas for first time

Shanna Hanbury 21 Apr 2025
Ahmed Albaaj of the U.N. World Food Programme planting a mangrove in Basra.

Mangroves mount a fragile green revival in Iraq’s toxic south

Robert Bociaga 21 Apr 2025
A fish release conducted for a recent study on fish migrations in the Mekong River.

Vital Mekong fish corridors tracked for first time, but funding cuts threaten future research

Anton L. Delgado 18 Apr 2025
A school of fish in the Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific. Image courtesy of Bryce Groark.

Trump opens massive marine protected area to commercial fishing

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Apr 2025

Even in death, Indigenous Fijians protect the sea

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2025

How Mexican fishers are protecting an endemic oyster — and its ecosystem

Gonzalo Ortuño López 17 Apr 2025
Sable shearwaters are long-lived marine birds that nest in large colonies on islands and shores throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans

Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline

Spoorthy Raman 16 Apr 2025
A baby colossal squid. Image courtesy of the Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Baby colossal squid recorded for the first time in its deep-sea home

Bobby Bascomb 16 Apr 2025
Crested black macaque. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Why conservation research findings are rarely surprising

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2025
Women in Timbul Seloko village, Central Java, help with the permeable dam project.

In an ancient Javanese sultanate, coastal women battle climate fallout

Irfan Maulana 16 Apr 2025
Fin whales, the second-largest mammal on earth, are hunted in Iceland, and their meat is exported to Japan. Image credits: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - Flickr: Finhval, CC BY 2.0,

Icelandic whaling company calls off fin whale hunt this summer

Shreya Dasgupta, Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2025
At his home in Seaview Park, Deon Warnick services ringnets, which are used to catch West Coast Rock Lobster, for a friend of his.

Fishing rights, and wrongs, cast small-scale South African fishers adrift

Barry Christianson 15 Apr 2025
Maoz Fine and Naama-Rose Kochman visit the lab’s coral nursery and monitoring station near Eilat.

Even the Gulf of Aqaba’s ‘supercorals’ bleached during 2024 heat wave

Ilan Ben Zion 14 Apr 2025
In Port Victoria Seychelles, a stevedore prepares tuna to be lifted off of a vessel via net and crane. Image by UN Women/Ryan Brown (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Seychelles becomes first country to comply with fisheries transparency standard

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Apr 2025

Corals recover faster on artificial structures than on natural reefs, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 11 Apr 2025

Award-winning film highlights lasting damage from X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Apr 2025
Banner image of Mommy, the Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise, courtesy of Philadelphia Zoo.

97-year-old Galápagos tortoise becomes a first-time mom

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
An Uggubseni resident.

In Panama, Indigenous Guna prepare for climate exodus from a second island home

Euan Wallace 10 Apr 2025

Indonesia bets on ‘reuse’ to curb plastic waste and build a circular economy

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025
floods

Honduras pays the climate cost as its forests disappear and storms rise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Apr 2025

As Acapulco’s mangroves disappear, Mexico takes strides to protect its coastal forests

Gonzalo Ortuño López 8 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pasir Timbul in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

122 companies responsible for a third of present day sea-level rise: Study

Kristine Sabillo 8 Apr 2025
Scientists on a British Antarctic Survey ship measure the conditions of the ACC. Image courtesy of Michael Meredith.

Melting Antarctic ice could weaken world’s strongest ocean current, study warns

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
Beach morning glory in Texas.

Bangladesh witnesses coastal erosion, salinization as tourism crushes a flowering creeper

Khadijatul Kobra 8 Apr 2025
Banner image of a humpback whale breaching in Iceland, by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study delves into increase in humpback whale sightings in UK and Ireland

Kristine Sabillo 4 Apr 2025

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