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‘Lazy’ sea lion sons rely on mothers’ milk while diligent daughters learn to hunt

Nicholas Weiler 3 Apr 2015

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Scientists, NGOs race to save ‘Millennium Trees’

Shaira Panela 12 Feb 2015

Reeling in religious messages: how faith impacts fisheries in Fiji

Amy West 25 Nov 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

California blue whales recover to historical levels

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2014

Invasion of the lionfish: new research finds the situation may be worse than we thought

Jose Hong 27 Aug 2014

Blue-footed boobies on the decline, plummeting sardine stocks may be to blame

Paul Sutherland 6 Aug 2014

Over-depleted and undermanaged: can Indonesia turn around its fisheries? (Part III)

Melati Kaye 22 Jul 2014

Fishing for coherent regulations along Fiji’s coral reefs

Amy West 16 Jul 2014

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jun 2014

Bigger than Mexico? Obama announces major expansion of Pacific protected area

Jeremy Hance 18 Jun 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 May 2014

Extreme cold and drought in U.S. linked to climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2014

Former Miss South Pacific steps into new conservation role

Amy West 15 May 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2014

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

Bobbie Edwards 8 Apr 2014

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Apr 2014

Corals thriving despite acidified conditions in remote Pacific bay

Tanya Dimitrova 25 Feb 2014

Scientists discover new eagle ray imperiled by Japanese pest program (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 2014

Satellites reveal browning mountain forests

Sandhya Sekar 22 Nov 2013

Beetles in the spotlight: a new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago

Raja Bandi 7 Nov 2013

DNA tests reveal new dolphin species (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2013

‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 Oct 2013

First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2013

The ‘dead’ ocean: eyewitness says overfishing has emptied the Pacific

Oliver Milman 22 Oct 2013

President’s pledge to ban commercial fishing around Pacific island nation slow to materialize

Tanya Dimitrova 23 Sep 2013

Natural cooling cycle in Pacific may have slowed global warming…for now

Fiona Harvey 12 Sep 2013

Finding a needle in a haystack: two new species of octocorals discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Bradley Fessenden 4 Sep 2013

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