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Better logging regulations ‘last best hope’ for Solomon Islands, study says

Carolyn Cowan 23 Jul 2021

Indonesia to send more tuna vessels out into international waters

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 2021

Great Barrier Reef in danger: Don’t fight the diagnosis, fight the threats (commentary)

John Tanzer 21 Jul 2021
Dominica sperm whales near the surface. Photo Courtesy of The Dominica Sperm Whale Project.

Nauru’s intention to mine the seabed prompts alarm among conservationists

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2021

‘We are intimately connected with nature’: Q&A with oceanographer Kim McCoy

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jul 2021

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2021

Satellites keep watch over global reef health in a world first

Mongabay.com 20 May 2021

Study confirms sightings of endangered blue whale in Philippine waters

Mavic Conde 14 May 2021

Time is running out for embattled Pacific leatherback sea turtles

Marlowe Starling 30 Apr 2021
Wildlife off the coast of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, in 2015. Image by Enric Sala.

Ocean protection scheme can yield ‘triple benefits’ study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Mar 2021

From penguins to sharks to whales, swimming in circles is a surprisingly common trait

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2021

Study calls for a marine reserve in a $500m fishing hotspot in Indonesia

Cassie Freund 23 Mar 2021

On the sea’s surface, a wealth of ocean life gets its start, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2021

Scientists discover three glow-in-the-dark sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2021

When Chinook salmon is off the menu, other prey will do for endangered orcas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Mar 2021
New cutting-edge technology can monitor illegal activities and movements of species across vast areas.

How technology can help us achieve at least 30% ocean protection (commentary)

Simon Cripps 3 Mar 2021

Corals are struggling, but they’re too abundant to go extinct, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Mar 2021
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

For marine life, human noise pollution brings ‘death by a thousand cuts’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Feb 2021

Activists make the case that bigger is better to protect Galápagos reserve

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021

Rare beaked whale sighting could be a world first for the species

Cypress Hansen 14 Jan 2021

A hi-tech eye in the sky lays bare Hawaiʻi’s living coral reefs

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2021

Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Dec 2020
Plastic pollution endangers marine animals, such as this young monk seal, which may get entangled in or ingest litter. Photo credit: the Ocean Cleanup/Matthew Chauvin

Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas

Isabella Backman 25 Nov 2020

New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries

Basten Gokkon 4 Sep 2020

They outlived dinosaurs, but can glass sponge reefs survive man-made warming?

Francesca Edralin 11 Aug 2020

Sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ in many global reef systems, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jul 2020

As reef bleaching intensifies, lab-grown corals could help beat the heat

Johan Augustin 23 Jul 2020
A flying squid flushes as the NOAA research ship Reuben Lasker approaches. NOAA photo by Bernardo Alps.

Study: Chinese ‘dark fleets’ illegally defying sanctions by fishing in North Korean waters

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jul 2020
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.

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jul 2020

Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

Cook Islands to grant seabed mining exploration licenses within a year

Monica Evans 17 Jun 2020

Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending catastrophe?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2020

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