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A coral reef in southern Pacific.

Hope, but no free pass, as Pacific corals show tolerance to warming oceans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Aug 2023
Kono village chief Chris Magalan speaks to his community members about the Solwara 1 project in New Ireland province.

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

John Cannon 18 Aug 2023
Global map of the oceans including elevation. Image courtesy of Esri.

To protect the oceans, we must map them (commentary)

Dawn Wright 10 Aug 2023
Gray reef sharks at Fakarava atoll, French Polynesia.

Expedition to Pacific ecosystems hopes to learn from their resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 May 2023

Australia bushfires may have caused global climate phenomenon La Niña: Study

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 May 2023
Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Image by Karsten Winegeart via Unsplash.

Hawaiian communities restore Indigenous conservation, from mountains to sea

Roxanne Hoorn 2 May 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023

In Chile’s Patagonia, another salmon plant angers water defenders

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2023

Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

Edward Carver 7 Mar 2023
Common bluestripe snapper in the Coral Triangle. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Basten Gokkon 23 Feb 2023
Nautilus vitiensis (left) and Nautilus samoaensis.

‘They’re everywhere out there’: Three new nautilus species described

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Feb 2023
A pod of humpback whales.

Potential impact on whales overlooked as deep-sea mining looks set to start, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Feb 2023

More than half of reef sharks and rays threatened with extinction, study shows

Basten Gokkon 17 Jan 2023
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

Deliberate dumping of plastic trash in the Pacific: How widespread is it? (commentary)

Saam Shams 12 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
A shark with remoras.

Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

Philip Jacobson 8 Dec 2022

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022

As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2022

A new tool to peer into fishing networks: Q&A with Austin Brush of C4ADS

Melati Kaye 21 Nov 2022

How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet

Annelise Giseburt 10 Nov 2022
A sea snake.

Small island, big ocean: Niue makes its entire EEZ a marine park

Monica Evans 3 Nov 2022

‘There are solutions to these abuses’: Q&A with Steve Trent on how China can rein in illegal fishing

Philip Jacobson 3 Nov 2022
A deckhand on the Long Xing 626 in DOF’s Atlantic fleet displays what experts who reviewed the image identified as a blue shark (Prionace glauca) in this photo posted to Facebook. The animal on the ground is a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Exclusive: Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 1 Nov 2022
A New Zealand deep sea trawler.

New Zealand convicts company of illegal trawling in high seas restricted area

Edward Carver 31 Oct 2022
Arctic sea ice melts.

Arctic sea ice loss to increase strong El Niño events linked to extreme weather: Study

Alec Luhn 24 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
A tripod fish

Regulator approves first deep-sea mining test, surprising observers

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2022

In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back of a hermit crab

Liz Kimbrough 2 Aug 2022
Dawn Wright giving a talk at an event.

‘We’ve got to help the oceans to help us’: Q&A with deep-sea explorer Dawn Wright

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2022

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

Basten Gokkon 15 Jul 2022
Diver towing a string of taramea.

Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs

Monica Evans 15 Jul 2022

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