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

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

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

Expedition to Pacific ecosystems hopes to learn from their resilience

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

Hawaiian communities restore Indigenous conservation, from mountains to sea

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

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

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

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

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

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

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

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

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

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

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

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

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

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

How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regulator approves first deep-sea mining test, surprising observers

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

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

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

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

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