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Staff at the International Bird Rescue in Los Angeles examine a sick brown pelican suffering from domoic acid poisoning. Credit: Ariana-Gastelum, courtesy of the International Bird Rescue

California Toxic Algal Bloom Blamed for Months-long Marine Life Poisoning

By Teresa Tomassoni

Fernando Trujillo (right) and his team carry a pink river dolphin to shore to conduct a health assessment on the endangered animal. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

One Man’s Quest to Protect Pink River Dolphins

By Teresa Tomassoni

Fish and sharks swim around North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands on March 8, 2024. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights

By Katie Surma

A humpback whale lunges out of the water while feeding on krill in the Gerlache Strait in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Ryan Reisinger

Scientists Call for More Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

A crab inhabits a bed of eelgrass at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. Eelgrass provides critical habitat for hundreds of species. Credit: Holly Plaisted/National Park Service

Seagrasses Capture Carbon 35 Times Faster Than Tropical Rainforests. Scientists Are Working to Save Them

By Teresa Tomassoni

Fish swim underwater at North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos on March 11. Greenpeace has called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under the U.N. high seas treaty to secure a much wider area around the Galapagos islands. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

To Protect Vast Expanses of Ocean Beyond All National Boundaries, 60 Nations Must Ratify the Treaty of the High Seas

By Teresa Tomassoni

In 2023, a North Atlantic right whale was spotted off the coast of Georgia with rope lodged in its mouth. Credit: Georgia DNR/NOAA Fisheries

The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

By Kiley Price

Alizee Zimmermann applies antibiotic paste to a star coral affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in Turks and Caicos. Credit: Patricia Guardiola Slattery

Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

By Teresa Tomassoni

Orcas swim off the coast of Crystal Cove State Park on Jan. 9 in Newport Beach, Calif. Credit: Mark Rightmire/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Killer Whales in Chile Have Begun Preying on Dolphins. What Does It Mean?

By Humberto Basilio

A manatee swims in the Haulover Canal waterway on June 4 in Mims, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Unprecedented Numbers of Florida Manatees Have Died in Recent Years. New Habitat Protections Could Help Them

By Amy Green

A sperm whale dives underwater as a Greenpeace sailing vessel, named the Witness, goes on a scientific expedition in August 2024 in Norway. Credit: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace

Norway’s Plan for Seabed Mining Threatens Arctic Marine Life, Greenpeace Says

By Teresa Tomassoni

The Seagrass Species That Is Not So Slowly Taking Over the World

By Bing Lin

Heat affects corals by breaking down their relationship with the microscopic algae living inside them. When waters are too warm the corals expel the algae and turn white, a process called bleaching. Credit: Katey Lesneski/NOAA

For Florida Corals, Unprecedented Marine Heat Prompts New Restoration Strategy—On Shore

By Amy Green

Agata Poniatowski, Billion Oyster Project’s public outreach program manager, points out the different marine organisms on an oyster cage at WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

For Marine Species Across New York Harbor, the Oyster Is Their World

By Lauren Dalban

A vibrant reef seascape is seen in Indonesia's Lombok Strait, a marine protected area. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

New Research Finds Most of the World’s Largest Marine Protected Areas Have Inadequate Protections

By Bing Lin

A view of a toxic algae bloom on the shores of Guadeloupe. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: The Dire Consequences of Global Warming in the Earth’s Oceans

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Marine biologist Anne Hoggett records bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia on April 5. Credit: David Gray/AFP via Getty Images

Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists

By Bob Berwyn

State and federal partners are racing to rescue smalltooth sawfish in the Florida Keys, where they are exhibiting unusual and concerning behavior like spinning and whirling. Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

As Florida Smalltooth Sawfish Spin and Whirl, a New Effort to Rescue Them Begins

By Amy Green

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