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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

Damage to Raja Ampat 12 times higher than previously thought

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2017

Climate change-induced bleaching decimating Great Barrier Reef

John Cannon 15 Mar 2017

Cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs at Raja Ampat

Basten Gokkon 9 Mar 2017

Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins

John Cannon 10 Feb 2017

Fish magnet boom creates headaches in Indonesia’s war on overfishing

Mike Cronin 9 Feb 2017

There are now just 30 vaquita left in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 2 Feb 2017

Protecting Marine Protected Areas

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Feb 2017

First-ever underwater photos of newly discovered Amazon Reef have surfaced

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

Indonesia adds more than 1,100 to the official tally of its islands

M Ambari 12 Jan 2017

Fish for all? The fish-free fishmeal challenge

Elizabeth Devitt 10 Jan 2017

Restoring seagrass under siege

Elizabeth Devitt 2 Jan 2017

2016’s top 10 developments for the world’s oceans

Caroline Jablonicky, Douglas McCauley 28 Dec 2016

The lionfish invasion: A call to arms?

Elizabeth Devitt 14 Dec 2016

Sea ice extent tumbles around both poles in November

John Cannon 7 Dec 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

Scientists say current plan to protect the vaquita will not save the species

Mike Gaworecki 4 Nov 2016

Is it time for a moratorium on commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna?

Mike Gaworecki 26 Oct 2016

Economic impacts of climate change on global fisheries could be worse than we thought

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2016

New tool lets anyone find out if deep sea mining is happening in their ocean backyard

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2016
A female North Atlantic right whale and her calf, off Cumberland Island, Georgia, in January 2013. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, collected under NOAA Research Permit #15488

A week of grim tidings for critically endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 6 Oct 2016

House of Mussels: an artificial reef off the coast of Jakarta

Edith Koesoemawiria 5 Oct 2016

Poisoned lives: five decades of pollution in Chile’s Quintero-Ventanas Bay

Sebastián Balcazar 4 Oct 2016

NOAA proposes rule to protect deep sea coral off U.S. Atlantic coast

Mike Gaworecki 3 Oct 2016

Study suggests commercial fishing depletes key nutrients in coral reefs

Mike Gaworecki 29 Sep 2016

Chile creates largest marine park in Southeast Pacific

Joaquín Ortiz 29 Sep 2016
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Whalesong, interrupted

Melati Kaye 23 Sep 2016

High seas treaty negotiations ended at UN last week with boost from IUCN Conservation Congress

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2016

NOAA establishes final rule on marine mammal bycatch for seafood imports

Mike Gaworecki 31 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

Should you be concerned about plastic and other human debris in your seafood?

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2016

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