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Sharks in the coral reefs of Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.

Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta

Philip Jacobson 16 May 2024

The families of fishers gather on Jan. 3 for a communal meal provided by the Talara Fishermen’s Guild.

Peruvian fishers sue for additional compensation after big December oil spill

Miguel Ángel Valero, Sandra Incio 2 Apr 2025

Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025

Community-based conservation cuts thresher shark fishing by 91% in Indonesia: Study

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2025

A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025

A coral reef and marine life in the waters off Raja Ampat in Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Econusa.

Indonesia seeks alternative funding as USAID freeze delays marine conservation efforts

Basten Gokkon 7 Mar 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

Tourists are back at this Instaworthy Philippine town, but can its sewage system keep up?

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Feb 2025

A humpback whale

Study suggests algal blooms disorient whales, putting them in danger

Keith Anthony Fabro 4 Feb 2025

An entangled fish

Underwater citizen science reveals the specter of ghost fishing in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jan 2025

Scientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale

Keith Anthony Fabro 17 Dec 2024

Coral reef in Sombrero Island, Philippines.

Coral reefs could survive climate change, but in altered state, study says

Keith Anthony Fabro 5 Dec 2024

Conservationists see progress for swordfish, problems for sharks at Atlantic fisheries summit

Edward Carver 25 Nov 2024

Waves off Scotland’s coast.

As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2024

Fishermen in Robertsport in 2009.

Plan for close season rings alarm bells for Liberia’s artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 26 Sep 2024

Fish at a coral reef in Mexico.

Lab-grown corals resisted bleaching during Caribbean’s worst marine heat wave

Caitlin Cooper 19 Sep 2024

Six months after first Houthi ship sinking, attacks slick Red Sea with oil

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Sep 2024

A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024

Marcel König and Natascha Oppelt (both from the University of Kiel, Germany) measuring melt pond optical properties during RV Polarstern campaign PASCAL, north of Svalbard in June 2017.

Arctic melt ponds influence sea ice extent each summer — but how much?

Michael C. Bradbury 20 Aug 2024

Women in the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve fish for crabs on the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern Brazil.

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Sarah Brown 19 Aug 2024

Entrepreneur Namita Mondal is watering mangrove saplings at her nursery.

In the Sundarbans, women are embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Aug 2024

A sea turtle in Ningaloo Reef, Australia.

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Glenn Scherer 13 Aug 2024

Sylvia Earle on the greatest threat to our oceans

Romi Castagnino 9 Aug 2024

An ice shelf and the sea in Greenland.

High-resolution maps reveal surprises about how ice shelves melt

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Aug 2024

Youth leaders revive Indigenous seafood harvesting heritage

Matthew Reichel, Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024

Gisele Martin, Hayden Seitcher, and Hughie Watts from Tseshaht nation — blessing the garden, carrying out a small ceremony to honor the land and ocean to ensure the garden's success and to respect their traditions.

On Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth

Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024

A fisherman casts his net at a beach in Chennai, India.

WTO negotiations flounder — again — over banning unsustainable fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 31 Jul 2024

A shark in mangrove shallows. Image by Anita Kainrath/Ocean Image Bank.

Shark fin consumption wanes in Thailand, yet demand persists, report shows

Carolyn Cowan 29 Jul 2024

Peruvian bills could imperil marine biodiversity & artisanal fishing, experts say

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jul 2024

Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024

Leticia Carvalho

‘Trust needs to be rebuilt’: Interview with candidate to head U.N. seabed-mining authority

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jul 2024

Musicians at a 2019 ceremony marking a three-month rāhui closure of the bonefish fishery in Anaa Atoll.

French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods

Amélie David 4 Jul 2024

For the first time ever, we’re farming more seafood than we’re catching: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 3 Jul 2024

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