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Blue shark.

It’s electric: Scientists develop cheap way to keep sharks off fishing hooks

Edward Carver 23 Feb 2026

Scientists discover a new whale highway after tagging a pygmy blue whale by drone

Claire Turrell 18 Feb 2026

Texas sea turtles have lost a conservation hero (commentary)

Todd Steiner 16 Feb 2026
Stingray

Snooping on stingrays

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2026

Mexico considers shrinking protected areas for endangered vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 10 Feb 2026
Loggerhead turtle swimming around fish aggregation device (FAD) belonging to the Ecuadorean purse seiner 'Ingalapagos', which was documented by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands.

Abandoned tuna-fishing devices pollute the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Marlowe Starling 9 Feb 2026
A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).

Critical shark and ray habitats in Western Indian Ocean largely unprotected: Study

Victoria Schneider 6 Feb 2026
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus).

Whale sharks released from nets along India’s coast as fishers turn rescuers

K.A. Shaji 4 Feb 2026
A basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), an endangered species, photographed along the Inner Hebrides island chain in Scotland, which is within a designated ISRA.

New global map shows where sharks and rays most need protection

Edward Carver 3 Feb 2026

Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2026
The government of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state has banned shark meat for meals in most of the schools it manages, after pressure from conservationists and school meal advisers raising health and environmental concerns.

Rio de Janeiro state bans shark meat for school meals

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2026
Corals in Thailand

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2026
Soil microbes. Invisible to the naked eye, microbial communities play a huge role in planetary processes, such as nutrient cycling, and are vital to ecosystem and human health.

IUCN launches group to conserve at-risk microbes vital to life on Earth

Sean Mowbray 21 Jan 2026
A North Atlantic right whale with calf. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

North Atlantic right whale births increase

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2026
Methane bubbles flow in small streams out of seafloor sediment offshore of Virginia, north of Washington Canyon. Quill worms, anemones and patches of microbial mat can be seen in and along the periphery of the seepage area.

Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jan 2026

Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2025

Road to recovery: Five stories of species staging a comeback

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Dec 2025
Vermillion rockfish and soft coral observed during an expedition in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected

Elizabeth Fitt 22 Dec 2025
Bee Smith, from her Instagram account.

Bethany “Bee” Smith, researcher who documented a megamouth shark alive, died in a diving accident, aged 24

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2025
A southern sea otter.

Zombie urchins & the Blob: California sea otters face new threats & ecosystem shifts

Christine Heinrichs 19 Dec 2025

The lab-in-a-backpack busting illegal shark fins: Interview with Diego Cardeñosa

Philip Jacobson 18 Dec 2025

Global manta and devil ray deaths far exceed earlier estimates: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Dec 2025
A diver swimming close to a female sperm whale pod.

Unregulated tourism risks disrupting Timor-Leste’s whale migration

Robin Hicks 11 Dec 2025
A juvenile white sturgeon in Canada.

With a target on their bellies, can California’s sturgeon survive?

Laurel Neme 10 Dec 2025

The last of the Vaquita Porpoise (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 9 Dec 2025
Atlantic blue tang surgeonfish (Acanthurus coeruleus). Photo by Sylfred1977 / Wikimedia Commons

New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species

Kaia Glickman 9 Dec 2025
A breaching northern bottlenose soars out of the water. Image by Sanna Isojunno via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada

Stella Mayerhoff 5 Dec 2025

Deep-diving manta rays use the ocean’s midnight zone to build mental maps, study suggests

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2025

Abrolhos: A South Atlantic marine treasure in need of protection

Elizabeth Oliveira 24 Nov 2025
A sea otter

‘Forever chemical’ contamination could undermine sea otters’ fragile recovery in Canada

Edward Carver 21 Nov 2025
Oceanic white tip shark. Image courtesy of Mark Royer, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

For sharks on the brink of extinction, CITES Appendix II isn’t protective enough (commentary)

David Shiffman 20 Nov 2025
A turtle consumes a plastic bag.

Lethal dose of plastic for seabirds and marine animals ‘much smaller than expected’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Nov 2025

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