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Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year

Grace Dungey 28 Feb 2020

Small steps aim to make a large ocean safer for rays

Marianne Messina 24 Feb 2020

Tuna supply chains under scrutiny as Bumble Bee brand changes hands

Monica Evans 7 Feb 2020
Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Goldman Prize winner launches new environmental foundation in the Cook Islands

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020
Acropora branching coral in French Polynesia. Image © Michele Westmorland iLCP.

Largest coral reef survey in French Polynesia offers hope

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Dec 2019

Whitetip sharks declared critically endangered, but gain no protections in Pacific

Monica Evans 13 Dec 2019

Vanishing sea ice in the Arctic could shake up seabird migrations

John Cannon 11 Dec 2019

Orca grandmothers help improve survival odds of their grandkids, study finds

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2019
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef near the Whitsunday Islands. Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-56257 was acquired on October 12, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 1150 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. Courtesy of NASA/JSC.

Protecting living corals could help defend the Great Barrier Reef from ocean acidification for decades

Ariana Remmel 6 Dec 2019

New regulations to expand protections for seafloor habitats, reopen fishing grounds off US West Coast

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2019

‘Fantastic grandmothers’ snorkel, help uncover large sea snake population

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2019

There’s a new fin whale subspecies in the North Pacific

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2019

The Ocean Cleanup successfully collects ocean plastic, aims to scale design

Rachael Meyer 28 Oct 2019

Cook Islands MPA leader fired after supporting seabed mining freeze

Monica Evans 15 Oct 2019

Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life

Monica Evans 27 Sep 2019

‘The Blob’ is back: Pacific heat wave already second-largest in recent history

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2019

Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector

Monica Evans 23 Sep 2019

Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean?

Monica Evans 19 Sep 2019

Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Aug 2019

Reef fish are faring fine in eastern Indonesia, study suggests

Julia John 31 Jul 2019

Thousands of sharks and rays are likely entangled in plastic polluting Earth’s oceans

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2019

Film that fish: Stereo-video speeds surveys of marine fish communities

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Jul 2019

Researchers discover right whales singing for the first time ever

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

Why sustainability should be on your plate when you travel (commentary)

Isolina Boto 19 Jun 2019

Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

For artisanal fishers, fish fences are an easy, but problematic, option

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2019

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 May 2019

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

Stephanie Parker 8 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019
Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans

Monica Evans 30 Apr 2019

An epic Pacific survey reveals mixed fortunes for green and hawksbill turtles

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Apr 2019
Coral garden on the bow of the Saratoga. Photo by Greg Asner.

Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Greg Asner 28 Apr 2019

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