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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
A southern stingray swimming over the seafloor.

‘Totally unsustainable’ sand mining harms marine environments, new data suggest

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Sep 2023
Fisherfolk leader Lorene Gabayeron holding fish.

A Philippines NGO project aimed to protect villages from typhoons: What went wrong?

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Sep 2023
Arctic sea ice.

Sensing tech used in oil pipelines can also track Arctic sea ice, study shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2023
Starfish on a tree reef raised out of the water.

Study finds old pear trees make for surprisingly rich reef habitats

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Sep 2023

Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting resurgent PNG project

John Cannon 6 Sep 2023
Two fin whales hunted in Iceland in 2009.

International outcry as Iceland lifts ban on what could be last whale hunt

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Sep 2023
Fishing boats in the Sundarbans.

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Farhana Parvin 1 Sep 2023
Christian Adams and Anthony Stofberg with their crew in a fishing boat.

For South Africa’s small fishers, co-ops prove a necessary, but bumpy, step up

Victoria Schneider 31 Aug 2023
A coral reef in southern Pacific.

Hope, but no free pass, as Pacific corals show tolerance to warming oceans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Aug 2023
A humpback whale

Expected ship traffic to LNG Canada port could see whale deaths also rise

Spoorthy Raman 18 Aug 2023
Kono village chief Chris Magalan speaks to his community members about the Solwara 1 project in New Ireland province.

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

John Cannon 18 Aug 2023
Katana Ngala in a boat during a coral restoration project.

‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener Katana Ngala

Anthony Langat 17 Aug 2023
Fishermen fishing for crabs in the wild.

As Bangladesh’s crab fishery booms, its wild stocks suffer the fallout

Farhana Parvin 16 Aug 2023
Ali Garama, the Kuruwitu BMU chairman.

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

Anthony Langat 9 Aug 2023
A small-scale fisher from Madagascar.

Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2023

Prickly babies: A Jamaican nursery aims to restore sea urchins felled by disease

Gladstone Taylor 3 Aug 2023
Hervé Berville, France’s state secretary for the sea.

‘The deep sea is vital to protect the ocean’: Q&A with France’s Hervé Berville

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023
Seabed ecosystem.

Deep-sea mining meetings conclude after stalemate on key agenda items

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2023
Trapang Ropov community members load a concrete pillar onto a raft.

‘Mud, muck and death’: Cambodia’s plan to obstruct trawlers and revive local fishing

Matt Blomberg 27 Jul 2023
Sea fan in the deep ocean.

Deep-sea mining rules delayed two more years; mining start remains unclear

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jul 2023
Pulau Tioman

Airport proposal for Malaysian island doesn’t fly with conservationists

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2023

Scientists: Fishing boats compete with whales and penguins for Antarctic krill

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Jul 2023
A fish in a plastic glove.

Clean me a river: Southeast Asia chokes on Mekong plastic pollution

Juliette Portala 18 Jul 2023
A leatherback hatchling.

Tag team effort brings tech to aid leatherback turtle conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jul 2023

Calls grow to put the brakes on deep-sea mining as countries discuss rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Jul 2023
A puffin with a beakful of sand eels. Dogger Bank has a unique biodiverse ecosystem rich in sand eels that supports North Sea food webs, including seabird populations. Image by Steve Higgins via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

How to ‘flip’ a paper park: Success in the North Sea carries lessons

Edward Carver 11 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
Newly found deep-sea octopus nursery

Deep-sea expedition reveals rare octo-nurseries off Costa Rica

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jul 2023
A fisher in Fiji.

Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2023
A washed-up egg case of a ray.

Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches

Michelle Carrere 30 Jun 2023

Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly 29 tons from 10,000 sharks seized

Karla Mendes 29 Jun 2023

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