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Pacific island nations launch plan for world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve

French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine protected area

Stars & lighthouses: Marine conservation that blends Pacific Islander wisdom and Western knowledge (commentary)

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Tuna fishing devices drift through a third of oceans, harming corals, coasts: Study

The blobby little sea squirt that stowed away across the Pacific to California

Brazil & China move ahead on 3,000-km railway crossing the Amazon

Our responsibility for cetacean conservation grows with proof of their intelligence (commentary)

Under Trump, US retreats from global fisheries and oceans leadership

Sweeping cuts and deregulation imperil U.S. fisheries, experts warn

‘Substantial’ transshipment reforms adopted at North Pacific fisheries summit

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

‘Fatal Watch’: Interview with documentary makers on fisheries observer deaths

Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone

500,000 barrels of DDT in the sea: Interview with documentary directors on California coast crisis

Initiative sets sights on rewilding three New Zealand islands

Study finds signs of tuna abundance outside marine protected areas

New Zealand blocks tighter trawling rules at South Pacific fisheries meeting

Funerary practices in Fiji protect marine areas while honoring the deceased

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick

Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study

Marshall Islands protects ‘pristine’ Pacific corals with first marine sanctuary

In Panama, major port construction begins at key mangrove site

Global ocean temperatures set new record in 2024

Pacific’s ‘Blob’ heat wave killed millions more seabirds than thought: Study

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

First-of-its-kind crew welfare measure adopted at Pacific fisheries summit

Teamwork makes the dream work for orcas hunting world’s biggest shark

In a Noah’s Ark move, PNG migrants bring thousands of trees to safer ground

World’s largest known coral — visible from space — found in Solomon Islands

Coral biodiversity hotspot at risk from fossil fuel expansion, report warns

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