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Off Ulawa Island, Solomon Islands, a circle of Indigenous fishermen catch scad by forming a circle, honoring the ocean’s gift. Image courtesy of Su'umoli village, Makira-Ulawa province, Solomon Islands.

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

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2025
Banner image of the waters around Maupiti Island in French Polynesia by Sophie Hurel via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY3.0).

French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine protected area

Kristine Sabillo 12 Jun 2025
Sailboat at night. Image by Johannes Plenio via Unsplash.

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

Angelo Villagomez 11 Jun 2025
The Paduka community cooking for visitors.

Villagers in Sumatra bring ancient forest flavors back to the table

Claire Turrell 5 Jun 2025
Fish in Samoa.

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

Claire Turrell 4 Jun 2025
Nontoxic dye released from an artificial upwelling experiment off the Canary Islands. That experiment, set to last weeks, ended after just one day when the pump failed. “To most of us that proved … the technical readiness of this approach is not there,” says Michael Sswat, a postdoctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, who was part of the research team.

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2025

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

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 May 2025
Marine invertebrates collected by researchers at a private marina near Los Angeles in 2023

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

Maya L. Kapoor 23 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Beijing in May. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil government.

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

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2025
A pod of Sperm Whales move into a defense line to stop a pod of Orcas (Killer Whales) getting to their calf, off the coast of Sri Lanka. Image © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace.

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

Avery Ancell 8 May 2025
A school of anthias (Pseudanthias bartlettorum) and a school of white tip sharks at Jarvis Island, one of seven U.S.-controlled islands and atolls around which the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is based. President Donald Trump opened most of the monument to commercial fishing in an April 17 executive order. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Under Trump, US retreats from global fisheries and oceans leadership

Edward Carver 29 Apr 2025
Tagging commercially caught albacore offshore of Oregon, on the U.S. West Coast. Image courtesy of NOAA Fisheries. 

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

Edward Carver 21 Apr 2025

‘Substantial’ transshipment reforms adopted at North Pacific fisheries summit

Edward Carver 31 Mar 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025
Keith Davis, an American fisheries observer, disappeared on a Taiwanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged vessel in 2015. Image courtesy of Mark Benjamin.

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

Edward Carver 20 Mar 2025
A northern elephant seal in Año Nuevo Island Reserve.

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

Spoorthy Raman 18 Mar 2025
Film poster for Out of Plain Sight shows a barrel floating in the ocean

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

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2025
Banner image of a white-capped albatross (Thalassarche cauta steadi) on Maukahuka/Auckland Island by Jake Osborne.

Initiative sets sights on rewilding three New Zealand islands

Kristine Sabillo 7 Mar 2025
A yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares). Experts debate the impact of marine protected areas (MPAs) on tuna populations. Image by Ellen Cuylaerts / Ocean Image Bank.

Study finds signs of tuna abundance outside marine protected areas

Edward Carver 3 Mar 2025

New Zealand blocks tighter trawling rules at South Pacific fisheries meeting

Edward Carver 28 Feb 2025
Fishing in Fiji. Image courtesy of Tom Vierus/WCS.

Funerary practices in Fiji protect marine areas while honoring the deceased

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Feb 2025

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

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Feb 2025
Banner image of coconut palm in Palmyra Atoll by USFWS/Andrew S. Wright via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

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

Kristine Sabillo 12 Feb 2025
Banner image: Satellite image of Japan on Feb. 11 via Himawari Satellite, CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA.

Japan sees record snowfall as Australia braces for cyclone Zelia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Feb 2025

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

Shanna Hanbury 28 Jan 2025

In Panama, major port construction begins at key mangrove site

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jan 2025

Global ocean temperatures set new record in 2024

Edward Carver 15 Jan 2025
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

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

Edward Carver 26 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

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

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

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

Edward Carver 10 Dec 2024

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