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Oceans

UN Leader Says People Power Is the Secret Weapon Against Global Warming

In his last major speech at a United Nations climate conference, Antonio Guterres said civil society must keep pushing back against the fossil fuel lobby.

By Bob Berwyn

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the 31st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) in Antalya, Turkey, on Wednesday. Credit: Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu via Getty Images
A school of fish swim through coral at the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge within Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument, about 1,100 miles south of Hawaii. Credit: Ian Shive/Tandem/USFWS

Trump’s ‘Reckless And Shortsighted’ Plan To Fish Protected Pacific Waters

By Johnny Sturgeon

Aegean fishermen return to shore on Sept. 1 in Izmir, Türkiye. Credit: Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu via Getty Images

Europe’s Warming Waters Are Attracting Unwanted Marine Life

By Johnny Sturgeon

A rapid decline of Antarctic sea ice extent since 2014 may have started a wave of climate impacts spreading toward the equator, new research shows. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

Antarctic Sea Ice Decline Is Triggering Global Ocean Changes

By Bob Berwyn

A panga returns at dusk beneath the cliffs of San Felipe’s Shrine of Guadalupe, home to one of the town’s unofficial and largely unregulated fishing slipways. Credit: Ryan Green/Pulitzer Center

Mexico Slashes Protections for Vaquita Porpoises

By Johnny Sturgeon

A boat works to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28, 2010, near New Orleans. Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

Deep-Sea Species Struggle to Recover After Deepwater Horizon Spill

By Bob Berwyn

Chloe Dorin is a former North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries biologist who recently resigned, alleging rampant mismanagement. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Floundering North Carolina Fisheries Agency Endangers Workers and Wildlife

By Lisa Sorg

Smoke rises from a fishmeal factory in 2025 near a residential community in Callao, Peru. Credit: Ministry of Production of Peru

Modern Aquaculture’s Invisible Cost: Its Putrid Stench

By Ian Urbina

Researchers inspect heat-resilient corals in Tatakoto, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

How Rewilding Could Help Atoll Islands Keep Pace With Rising Seas

By Bob Berwyn

A fire rages on the SS South America, one of at least 90 fires that broke out on ships carrying fishmeal between the 1950s and 1970s. In an effort to prevent more fishmeal fires on cargo ships, the feed industry began treating fishmeal with ethoxyquin. Credit: Sepia Times, NY Daily News, Evers, Joost/Anefo

The Fire Retardant in the Seafood Chain

By Ian Urbina

Anchovetas fill a receiving tank at a fishmeal plant in Peru during a government visit in April 2025, marking the launch of the year’s first anchoveta fishing season, which opened with a quota of three million tons. Credit: Ministry of Production of Peru

The Fishfeed Trap

By Ian Urbina

Derelict ships and fish farms near Preveza, Greece. Abandoned farms leach microplastics and release Styrofoam pellets, while their nets trap living creatures like crabs. Credit: Ryan Green/The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Greek National Park Suffocated by Fish Farming

By Johnny Sturgeon

An aerial view of the Exumas region of the Bahamas. Credit: EyesWideOpen via Getty Images

As Rival Resorts Battle in a Bahamas Court, a Threatened Conch’s Nursery Is Caught in the Middle

By Kate Waxman

Fish farms along the Xiromero coastline in Greece in 2026. The local municipality has submitted an appeal to the country’s highest court opposing proposed expansion plans. Credit: Johnny Sturgeon/The Outlaw Ocean Project

Greece’s Seafood Problem Starts Elsewhere

By Johnny Sturgeon, Ian Urbina

A humpback whale surfaces in Antarctic waters on Feb. 4. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill

By Teresa Tomassoni

Freshly caught mackerels sit on ice in Brest, France, on Dec. 11, 2025. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images

Retailers Warn Europe’s Fishing Industry to Stop Overfishing

By Johnny Sturgeon

A green sea turtle swims in the Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve off the coast of La Jolla in San Diego. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

California to Vote on Landmark Tribal Petitions for Coastal Protections

By Claire Barber

The Helen Mary, measuring 380 feet, hauls in catch. Credit: BLOOM/Pierre Gleizes

‘Mega-Industrial’ Trawlers Threaten Europe’s Ocean Health

By Johnny Sturgeon

Pacific Ocean waves crash into a seawall on Sept. 7 in Long Beach, Calif., as offshore Hurricane Marie generated heavy surf. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name

By Nina Dietz

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