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Rising Seas and Land-Based Salt Pollution Pose Dual Threats for Drinking Water

By Kiley Price

New research shows how freshwater from melting ice along the edge of Antarctica is changing the density of ocean layers, which could weaken the world's strongest ocean current by 20 percent in the next 25 years. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

Global Warming Will Weaken Earth’s Strongest Ocean Current, New Study Predicts

By Bob Berwyn

James Hansen, a former NASA climate scientist, led the team of researchers that documented an increasing rate of global warming since 2010. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration

By Bob Berwyn

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

‘Amazon of the Seas’ Threatened by Oil and Gas Developments

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

A blue whale swims near a large vessel in Sri Lanka, where it could be vulnerable to collisions. Credit: Asha de Vos

Scientists Identify Global Hotspots for Whale-Ship Collisions—and Hardly Any Have Protections in Place

By Kiley Price

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 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

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. Credit: United Nations/Kiara Worth

Pacific Islands Climate Risk Growing as Sea Level Rise Accelerates

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Bing Lin

A member of the Coral Restoration Foundation brings up threatened coral transplants from the Florida Keys waters for safe keeping on land during a marine heatwave on July 24, 2023 near Islamorada, Florida. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

New Federal Report Details More of 2023’s Extreme Climate Conditions

By Bob Berwyn

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

On Feb. 24, 2018, the Argentine Coast Guard discovered the Jing Yuan 626 fishing illegally within Argentina’s EEZ. Here, an Argentine Coast Guard member watches as Jing Yuan 626 and several other foreign fishing vessels crowd around during a pursuit. Credit: Javier Giannattasio

Taking Over from the Inside: China’s Growing Reach Into Local Waters

By Ian Urbina, Pete McKenzie and Milko Schvartzman

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