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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021

New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries

Basten Gokkon 4 Sep 2020

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

Johan Augustin 23 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

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

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Apr 2019

Waters off Galápagos have way more alien species than previously known

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2019

Deadly disease and warming ocean are wiping out a key starfish species

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

17 new brilliantly colored species of sea slugs described

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2018

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

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

Tuna catch monitoring enters the electronic age

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jul 2017

END LOOP: Coding to end wildlife trafficking

Julia John 24 Aug 2016

Scientists have just discovered the first endemic bird species to go extinct on the Galápagos Islands

Mike Gaworecki 22 Aug 2016

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Scientists, NGOs race to save ‘Millennium Trees’

Shaira Panela 12 Feb 2015

Reeling in religious messages: how faith impacts fisheries in Fiji

Amy West 25 Nov 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

California blue whales recover to historical levels

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2014

Invasion of the lionfish: new research finds the situation may be worse than we thought

Jose Hong 27 Aug 2014

Blue-footed boobies on the decline, plummeting sardine stocks may be to blame

Paul Sutherland 6 Aug 2014

Over-depleted and undermanaged: can Indonesia turn around its fisheries? (Part III)

Melati Kaye 22 Jul 2014

Fishing for coherent regulations along Fiji’s coral reefs

Amy West 16 Jul 2014

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jun 2014

Bigger than Mexico? Obama announces major expansion of Pacific protected area

Jeremy Hance 18 Jun 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 May 2014

Extreme cold and drought in U.S. linked to climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2014

Former Miss South Pacific steps into new conservation role

Amy West 15 May 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2014

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

Bobbie Edwards 8 Apr 2014

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Apr 2014

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