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

Small steps aim to make a large ocean safer for rays

Tuna supply chains under scrutiny as Bumble Bee brand changes hands

Goldman Prize winner launches new environmental foundation in the Cook Islands

Largest coral reef survey in French Polynesia offers hope

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

Vanishing sea ice in the Arctic could shake up seabird migrations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cook Islands MPA leader fired after supporting seabed mining freeze

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

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

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

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

Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies

Reef fish are faring fine in eastern Indonesia, study suggests

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

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

Researchers discover right whales singing for the first time ever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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