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A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025

Sunset over the tropical Pacific Ocean off Hawai‘i. The new study points to the climactic interconnectivity of the world’s warming oceans, where humid heat waves often originate, and faraway terrestrial landscapes, where humid heat waves can threaten public health.

Tropics take the brunt as hotter oceans drive large-scale humid heat waves: Study

Adam Litchkofski 10 Apr 2026

Fish Loading and unloading activities.

Talks to reduce funding for overfishing remain stalled at WTO meeting

Elizabeth Fitt 3 Apr 2026

Fisherman Chapoka Miongo speaks from his traditional dugout canoe at the Shimoni channel, in Kwale county, Kenya, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Artisanal fisheries on Kenya's coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign vessels and a lack of other job opportunities for coastal communities is draining the Indian Ocean of its yellowfin tuna stocks. Miongo explained that warming waters forced tuna species to alter their migration patterns, making it harder for local fishers to catch them. Image by AP Photo/Brian Inganga.

New strategy to reverse Kenya’s shark decline tries to bring fishers on board

Anthony Langat 27 Mar 2026

Fresh shark meat is sold as cação at street markets in Rio de Janeiro. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay shark meat exposé wins national journalism education award in Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2026

A humpback whale breaching in Alaskan waters.

Indigenous concerns surface as U.S. agency considers seabed mining in Alaskan waters

Anita Hofschneider 11 Feb 2026

Methane bubbles flow in small streams out of seafloor sediment offshore of Virginia, north of Washington Canyon. Quill worms, anemones and patches of microbial mat can be seen in and along the periphery of the seepage area.

Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jan 2026

Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2025

A humpback whale fluke.

Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules

Francesco De Augustinis 4 Nov 2025

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Image by Dr. Wayne Trivelpiece via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2025

Nickel mining threatens Raja Ampat ecosystems, communities & conservation: Report

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2025

A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025

Global tracking study reveals marine megafauna hotspots lie largely unprotected

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Jul 2025

A brittle star (Gorgonocephalus sp.), recognizable by its numerous abundantly branched arms, attached to a white coral (Desmophyllum pertusum).

First-ever assessment highlights threats to Atlantic cold-water corals

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Jun 2025

Coral reef in Vietnam.

Major coral loss in Vietnam’s first marine protected area: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 20 Jun 2025

Clown anemonefish live symbiotically with anemone

When heat waves hit, clownfish shrink to survive, study finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Jun 2025

Fish in Samoa.

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

Claire Turrell 4 Jun 2025

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

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 May 2025

Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push

Riza Salman 24 May 2025

Fishers bring in their catch in Tran Vinh Nghia, Vietnam, in 2010. Image courtesy of United Nations Development Programme via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Southeast Asia’s fisheries thrive despite decades of overfishing warnings: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Apr 2025

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

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