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New picture of coral reef health opens avenues for saving them

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

Are deep sea reefs really a lifeboat for our vanishing corals?

Emily Clark 7 Nov 2018

Coral bleaching events cause behavioral changes in key reef fish species

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2018

17 new brilliantly colored species of sea slugs described

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2018

Chile mine and port project nears approval despite scientific opposition

Michelle Carrere 31 Oct 2018

Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

New species of blood-red coral found off Panama coast

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018

Deep reefs were not spared by 2016 mass bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2018
Patrolling sharks on a post-nuclear reef. Image by Greg Asner.

The search for survivors in a post-nuclear reefscape

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 10 Sep 2018

The Japan pig is a tiny colorful pygmy seahorse smaller than a fingernail

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018
Coral reef off New Caledonia. Courtesy of Google Earth.

New Caledonia votes to protect coral reefs

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2018

Scientists say endangered whale sharks can live up to 130 years

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2018
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Technological breakthroughs are changing how researchers observe the world’s fishing fleet

Nadine Freischlad 14 Aug 2018

Ocean acidity stifles coral-anchored communities

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2018

Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

The plastic crisis sinks to a new low in the deep sea

Bhanu Sridharan 28 Jun 2018

Coral reef ‘oases’ that thrive amid threats give hope for conservation

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

Shark fisheries hunting dolphins, other marine mammals as bait: Study

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2018

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018
Planet satellite image of coral off Belize's Lighthouse Reef. Taken March 28, 2018.

A global coral reef monitoring system is coming soon

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2018

Fishing gear poses the greatest danger to young great whites off the West Coast of the U.S.

John Cannon 22 May 2018

Longest recorded whale shark migration eclipses 20,000 kilometers

Mongabay.com 14 May 2018

Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand

Mike Gaworecki 1 May 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Scientists stumble upon hundreds of octopus moms in the deep sea

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2018

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2018

Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve

Jack Elliot Marley 27 Feb 2018

Reef bleaching five times more frequent now than in the 1980s, study finds

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2018
The newly documented frilled giant Pacific octopus. Photo courtesy of David Scheel

‘New’ giant octopus discovered in the Pacific

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2017

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017
A Gonatus squid eating another squid. Photo © MBARI

Videos unlock secrets of jellyfish as deep-sea killers

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2017

Indonesians plant trees to nurse seagrass back to health in Wakatobi

Sean Mowbray 31 Oct 2017

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