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Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018

NOAA publishes global list of fisheries and their risks to marine mammals

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018

Under the sea: Life is the bubbles in newly described deep-reef zone

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2018
Gentoo penguins on Greenwich Island, part of the South Shetland Island group, Antarctica. Photo by Paul Hilton/Greenpeace.

“Save the Krill” urges Greenpeace report

Kim Smuga-Otto 23 Mar 2018

Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Mike Gaworecki 23 Mar 2018

In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand

Luh De Suriyani 22 Mar 2018
Local fishers in the fishing town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?

Edward Carver 14 Mar 2018

Analysis: U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?

Saul Elbein 14 Mar 2018
Palestinian bedouin in Gaza Valley dig for worms in the polluted shallow waters on Gaza’s coast to use for fishing. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Gaza City residents’ water problems continue to compound

Kaamil Ahmed 12 Mar 2018
Koh Rong Sanloem, one of seven islands that make up Cambodia’s new Koh Rong Marine National Park. Photo by Wikirictor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia creates its first marine national park where pirate fishers prowl

Matt Blomberg 12 Mar 2018

Plastic not so fantastic for Bali’s iconic manta rays

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2018

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2018

Mangrove deforestation may be releasing more CO2 than Poland, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve

Jack Elliot Marley 27 Feb 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018

New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2018

‘Adaptation Bangladesh: Sea Level Rise’ film shows how farmers are fighting climate change

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2018

Queen conch dying out in the Bahamas despite marine parks

Jim Tan 16 Feb 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

New population of extremely rare ‘red handfish’ discovered off Tasmania

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Duterte orders navy to fire on foreign poachers in Philippine waters

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Illegal ‘white gold,’ South Africa’s abalone, pouring into Hong Kong: TRAFFIC

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Whale of a tale: Protecting Panama’s humpbacks from ship collisions

Andrew J. Wight 8 Feb 2018

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