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Kelp forest.

Peat on land and kelp at sea as Argentina protects tip of Tierra del Fuego

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Dec 2022
Sea spaghetti in a kelp forest.

Europe considers large-scale seaweed farming; environmental effects unknown

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams, Tristen Taylor 21 Oct 2022

Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers

Basten Gokkon 10 Aug 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022

How marine conservation benefits from combining Indigenous knowledge and Western science

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jun 2022
A conservationist working on a seagrass restoration project.

Sea restoration projects quilt a ‘mosaic of habitats’ with striking results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2022

A seagrass restoration project to preserve the past may also protect the future

Basten Gokkon 3 May 2022

Why are Florida manatees showing up in Cuba and Mexico?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2022
Seagrass in Tanzania.

To get people thinking about seagrass, Seychelles coins new Creole words

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2022
Mallorca, in Spain’s Balearic Islands, is a go-to destination for holidaymakers from Europe and further afield. Image by Kyle Taylor via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

‘We should be pretty concerned’: Study shows only 15% of coastal regions still intact

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2022

Gulf of Thailand oil pipeline leak threatens reef-rich marine park

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

‘Great Blue Wall’ aims to ward off looming threats to western Indian Ocean

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jan 2022

Underwater gardeners restore seagrass meadows to keep oceans healthy

Lucrezia Lozza 19 Aug 2021

Countries can transform the climate crisis with ocean-based action (commentary)

Waldemar Coutts 19 Apr 2021

This Mediterranean seagrass filters plastic waste — but it’s also under threat

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2021

Saving an island from the worst oil spill in the Philippines: The case of Guimaras

Arnel Murga 11 Oct 2019

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

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2019

There’s now an app for mapping seagrass, the oceans’ great carbon sink

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2018
Koh Rong Sanloem, one of seven islands that make up Cambodia’s new Koh Rong Marine National Park. Photo by Wikirictor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia creates its first marine national park where pirate fishers prowl

Matt Blomberg 12 Mar 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018
Members of the Kep provincial government and Fisheries Administration set fire to a mound of banned fishing gear in July 2015. The gear had been confiscated over a period of months from Cambodian and Vietnamese vessels operating illegally in Kep Bay, and was burned in front of a village notorious for abusing the law and the sea. Photo courtesy of MCC.

Building a refuge where trawlers now ravage Cambodia’s marine life

Matt Blomberg 14 Dec 2017

Indonesians plant trees to nurse seagrass back to health in Wakatobi

Sean Mowbray 31 Oct 2017

Restoring seagrass under siege

Elizabeth Devitt 2 Jan 2017

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

After the NGOs: can Wakatobi National Park survive on its own?

Melati Kaye 18 Nov 2015

The Holy Trinity: how Wakatobi’s coral stays healthy and diverse

Melati Kaye 16 Nov 2015

Planting meadows in the ocean: technique may help restore disappearing seagrass beds

Anna Ikarashi 11 Aug 2014

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