Global leaders pledged to protect 10% of the oceans by 2020. We’re nowhere close and the goal has proven particularly challenging to achieve in international waters.
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The Pacific Ocean produces oxygen, helps regulates the weather, provides food and livelihoods. It’s a place of fun, solace and spiritual connection. But its delicate ecology is under threat.
The Arctic has been a remote place for much of its history. But climate change is bringing global problems and opportunities to its door.
The latest research reveals basking sharks are not lone predators but rather family-minded creatures with a fancy for fine dining with their own folk.
The Blue Belt is a network of marine protected areas 17 times larger than the UK.
Healthy seagrasses form underwater meadows teeming with fish and shellfish. A successful large-scale restoration project in Virginia could become a model for reseeding damaged seagrass beds worldwide.
Maerl beds are the coral reefs of the British Isles. But like their tropical counterparts, they’re threatened by climate change.
The latest incident highlights a mismatch between ocean law and marine ecosystems.
Global long-term data simply doesn’t exist for jellyfish, so scientists struggle to predict, track and mitigate their potential effects.
Everyone who cares about marine biodiversity, fish, fishers, coastal communities and fishing industry workers of today and tomorrow must push for the end of fisheries subsidies.
As climate change warms northern rivers and changes precipitation patterns, some types of cold-loving fish are failing.
International law does not meaningfully address biodiversity conservation in the high seas. We risk losing marine species before we have a chance to identify and understand them.
Reef fish vanish during marine heat waves, but may bounce back quickly on reefs that have few other environmental stressors.
Microscopic ocean phytoplankton feed a “biological pump” that carries carbon from the surface to deep waters. Scientists have found that this process stores much more carbon than previously thought.
South Africa is home to four other seahorse species, but this was the first time a pygmy seahorse had been observed in South Africa, let alone Africa.
Biodiversity is often highest in places with human activity. The fishing industry has shown we can often have it both ways: maintain important livelihoods while protecting precious marine life.
Scientists thought there was only one sixgill sawshark species – until now.
Although less well known than its cousins, coral reefs and mangroves, seagrass plays a crucial role in climate change mitigation.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating accumulation of rubbish the size of a continent, has whales and dolphins in its heart.
Oil spills from a project that’s designed to harness the economic potential of South Africa’s oceans are threatening the world’s largest remaining African Penguin colony.
Top contributors
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor in marine biology, Swansea University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Southampton
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Professor, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University
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Reader of Law, Newcastle University
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Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Doctoral School Programmes Manager, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Marine Ecologist, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Aquatic Biosciences, Nord University
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Research Fellow in Marine Science and Manager Whales & Climate Program, Griffith University
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Professor of Global-Change Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast
