‘Eavesdropping’ on groupers’ mating calls key to survival
Eavesdropping on groupers mating in their natural habitats isn’t creepy. In fact, it’s imperative to ensuring their survival.
Banned toxins passed from mother to young in European dolphins
Dolphins in the northern Adriatic contain high levels of PCBs – highly toxic chemicals banned in the 1970s and 1980s – and are passing the pollutant to their young, according to new research led by a marine scientist at the University of St Andrews.
‘Sad surprise’: Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles
Scientists in Brazil find first evidence of plastic pollution in Amazon basin freshwater fish
Filling in the gaps: Managing endangered species on the high seas
Information about how marine animals move through the oceans has become vitally important as efforts progress to create a global plan for securing sustainable fish stocks in the high seas.
Human activities are impeding population growth of North Atlantic right whales
New research finds that deaths caused by human activities are not just impacting individual North Atlantic right whales and their immediate family units…
PNG to create 7,500 square kilometers of new marine protected areas in Bismarck Sea
The PNG government has pledged to triple the coverage of its current MPA network, and this new 7,500-square-kilometer (nearly 2,900-square-mile) commitment will achieve that goal.
Are deep sea reefs really a lifeboat for our vanishing corals?
Mesophotic reefs reside, by definition, at depths of 30 to 150 meters (100 to 500 feet). They support a variety of fish and species of soft corals like this one in Palau in the western Pacific.
In Bali and beyond: An urgent focus on coral conservation (commentary)
Some coral reefs around the world are stronger, more flexible, and more resilient than others to changes and threats in their environment. These reefs need to be protected.
MISSION BLUE HEADS TO PALAU TO INVESTIGATE MPA SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
Named as one of National Geographic’s “Last Great Places on Earth”, The Republic of Palau is an isolated archipelago in the Western Pacific that encompasses 340 islands and some of the world’s most remarkably vast biological diversity.
Australia Wrestles With Saving the Great Barrier Reef
With billions of tourism dollars at stake, many refuse to believe or simply ignore that the massive natural wonder is being killed by climate change.