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A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley, Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017
Bricks of processed gold. Photo via Pixabay.

Guilty pleas entered in South American rainforest gold laundering cases

Genevieve Belmaker 8 Sep 2017

Story-telling app and website help communities improve their ‘backyards’

Danielle Bettermann 23 Jun 2017

Elusive seabird breeding grounds discovered in Chilean desert

Kim Smuga-Otto 16 Jun 2017

From CEO to Conservation Legend: An Interview with Kristine Tompkins

Matthew P. Reed 31 Mar 2017

Field Notes: Finding Jacobo; an Andean cat captivates conservationists

Elizabeth Devitt 28 Feb 2017

Swallowing swimming pools: New sensory tags capture kinetics of lunge-feeding whales

Julia John 2 Dec 2016

Illegal fishing threatens Easter Island’s natural resources

Pablo Hernández Mares 2 Nov 2016

The salmon crisis in Chile’s Chiloé Island

Rodrigo Soberanes & Andrés Pérez 5 Oct 2016

Poisoned lives: five decades of pollution in Chile’s Quintero-Ventanas Bay

Sebastián Balcazar 4 Oct 2016

Chile creates largest marine park in Southeast Pacific

Joaquín Ortiz 29 Sep 2016

Controversial dams on 5 Chilean rivers scrapped after years of campaign

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Sep 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds

Peter Mellgard 29 Feb 2016

2015’s top 10 developments for the ocean

Douglas McCauley 31 Dec 2015

Poaching upsurge threatens South America’s iconic vicuña

Rachel Nuwer 24 Nov 2015

Chile announces one of the largest marine parks in the world off the coast of Easter Island

Mike Gaworecki 6 Oct 2015

Record heat in Antarctica

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2015

Genetics study sheds light on Chile’s most endangered bird

Joanna Parkman 22 Dec 2014

Initiative to restore 50M acres of degraded Latin American ecosystems by 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations

Julian Moll-rocek 18 Aug 2014

Chile drops hugely controversial mega-dam project in wild Patagonia

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2014

Chile turns to owls to combat fatal disease

Franziska Green 1 Apr 2014

Court orders logging company to clean up pollution disaster in Chile wetlands

Franziska Green 17 Jan 2014

Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2014

Rewilding Chile’s savanna with guanacos could increase biodiversity and livestock

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 6 Jan 2014

Strange mouth-brooding frog driven to extinction by disease

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2013

Vocal-sac breeding frog possibly extinct

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2013

Vanishing species makes astounding comeback under combined action of local government and conservationists

Alexander Holmgren 3 Jun 2013

First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Spike in glacier melt across Patagonia since 2000

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2012

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