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Thousands feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates southeast Africa

Kristine Sabillo 18 Dec 2024
Banner image of Galaxea astreata coral colony in Nusa Penida in Bali, Indonesia, courtesy of Ocean Gardener.

Scientists in Bali find what could be the world’s largest coral colony

Kristine Sabillo 17 Dec 2024
A coral reef in the shallow waters of the Andaman Sea.

India advances deep-sea mining technology in the Andaman Sea

Priyanka Shankar 21 Nov 2024

Last wild hurricane palm of its kind falls, marking extinction

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2024

Maldives drops plan to reopen longline tuna fishing following protests

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2024
An artisanal fishing boat on a Mozambique beach.

Report: Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China’s Indian Ocean fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jun 2024
A yellowfin tuna.

No mercy for overfished yellowfin tuna at Indian Ocean fisheries meeting

Francesco De Augustinis 23 May 2024
Clownfish at Komodo.

It will take 880 years to achieve UN ocean conservation goals, at this rate (commentary)

Angelo Villagomez 15 Apr 2024

Nepal’s release of endangered crocs into historical habitat raises concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Mar 2024
Global map of the oceans including elevation. Image courtesy of Esri.

To protect the oceans, we must map them (commentary)

Dawn Wright 10 Aug 2023
A small-scale fisher from Madagascar.

Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2023
Yellowfin tuna catch laid out on leaves.

As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others

Malavika Vyawahare 29 May 2023
Common bluestripe snapper in the Coral Triangle. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Basten Gokkon 23 Feb 2023

End of the tuna FAD? Indonesia hopes so, but EU isn’t giving up just yet

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2023

Critics allege EU’s ‘toxic collusion’ with fishing lobbies is damaging Indian Ocean tuna

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Feb 2023
Fishes in a coral reef.

Invasive rats topple ecological domino that affects reef fish behavior

John Cannon 20 Jan 2023

More than half of reef sharks and rays threatened with extinction, study shows

Basten Gokkon 17 Jan 2023
The author poses/hides in a mangrove at low tide. Image by Morgan Erickson-Davis.

Top mangrove news of 2022

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2022
A scientist waves to a fish in the trapping zone.

Deep dive uncovers previously unknown underwater ecosystem in Maldives

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Oct 2022
Deploying a weather balloon

Agulhas Current enigma: An oceanic gap in our climate understanding

Petro Kotzé 21 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A blacktip reef shark swims among smaller fish

Maldives shark-fishing ban tested by ebbing support from small-scale fishers

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2022
Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022
An artisanal fisherman next to a ship in Madagascar.

Murky provenance of a Chinese fleet clouds Madagascar shrimp fishery

Rivonala Razafison 11 May 2022

Spectacular new fish species is first to be named by Maldivian scientist

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2022

Seychelles embraces transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Feb 2022

Two storms in two weeks carve trail of death and destruction in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2022

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022

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

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jan 2022
Measuring coral off the coast of East Africa. Photo credit: Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Save Our Seas Foundation

We must reverse the pressures on coral reefs before it’s too late (commentary)

David Obura, Melita Samoilys 6 Dec 2021
Large tiger sharks overwinter in the Bahamas and migrate thousands of kilometers into open ocean in the summer, but they remain in the Atlantic. Photo credit: © Christopher Vaughan-Jones

Geneticists have identified new groups of tiger sharks to protect

Graycen Wheeler 30 Nov 2021
Researchers found hermit crabs scuttling across some of the study’s 240 plots. Photo credit: Sebastian Steibl

Insects and other invertebrates on tropical islands face challenges as development and tourism expand

Brittney J. Miller 29 Nov 2021

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