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A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David E. Brown 18 Oct 2016

Economic impacts of climate change on global fisheries could be worse than we thought

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2016

New tool lets anyone find out if deep sea mining is happening in their ocean backyard

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2016

Scientists dive deep to discover new fish species at 150 meters

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Oct 2016
A female North Atlantic right whale and her calf, off Cumberland Island, Georgia, in January 2013. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, collected under NOAA Research Permit #15488

A week of grim tidings for critically endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 6 Oct 2016

The salmon crisis in Chile’s Chiloé Island

Rodrigo Soberanes, Andrés Pérez 5 Oct 2016

House of Mussels: an artificial reef off the coast of Jakarta

Edith Koesoemawiria 5 Oct 2016

Poisoned lives: five decades of pollution in Chile’s Quintero-Ventanas Bay

Sebastián Balcazar 4 Oct 2016

NOAA proposes rule to protect deep sea coral off U.S. Atlantic coast

Mike Gaworecki 3 Oct 2016

Study suggests commercial fishing depletes key nutrients in coral reefs

Mike Gaworecki 29 Sep 2016

Chile creates largest marine park in Southeast Pacific

Joaquín Ortiz 29 Sep 2016

Slave-linked fishing firm thought to have resumed operations in Indonesia

M Ambari 29 Sep 2016

The thriving oysters of Wellfleet Harbor

Shannon Cuthbert 26 Sep 2016

Searching for sawfish following the clues of environmental DNA

Julia John 26 Sep 2016
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Whalesong, interrupted

Melati Kaye 23 Sep 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio launches global campaign to protect sharks and rays

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Sep 2016

Obama creates Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2016

$48 million fund to help expand marine protected areas

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Sep 2016

High seas treaty negotiations ended at UN last week with boost from IUCN Conservation Congress

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

First Toba, now Maninjau: another mass fish death hits an Indonesian lake

Vinolia 9 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

Ocean warming is “greatest hidden challenge of our generation,” according to IUCN

Mike Gaworecki 6 Sep 2016

NOAA establishes final rule on marine mammal bycatch for seafood imports

Mike Gaworecki 31 Aug 2016
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Why did millions of fish turn up dead in Indonesia’s giant Lake Toba?

Aria Danaparamita 30 Aug 2016

US creates world’s largest marine reserve off Hawaii

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Rising sea levels could actually help coral reefs survive global warming: Study

Mike Gaworecki 25 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016

Atauro island has highest average reef fish diversity in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2016

Two new species of glowing spook fish discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

Watch how corals ‘violently’ bleach as sea temperatures rise

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

New species of extinct dolphin discovered in museum collection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2016

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