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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

Bleaching of soft Gorgonian corals had never been documented in the western Caribbean until the summer of 2023. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

NOAA Declares a Global Coral Bleaching Event in 2023

By Bob Berwyn

A school of fish is seen off the coast of southeastern France. Global warming is driving a dramatic shift of species in the Mediterranean and could lead to mass extinctions in the worst-case outcome. Credit: Alessandro Rota/Getty Images

Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea

By Bob Berwyn

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation carries cold water from near Greenland (blue line) southward along the seafloor toward Antarctica, while currents nearer the surface transport warmer water northward. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Extreme Climate Impacts From Collapse of a Key Atlantic Ocean Current Could be Worse Than Expected, a New Study Warns

By Bob Berwyn

Juno and her calf were seen on Jan. 11 off Amelia Island, Florida. The calf has severe injuries to its head, mouth, and left lip consistent with a vessel strike. Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission/NOAA

Endangered Whale ‘Likely to Die’ After Suspected Vessel Strike. Proposed NOAA Rules Could Prevent Future Collisions, Scientists Say

By Kiley Price

Fishermen sort their catch from a trawl fishery on a fishing boat in the Port of Molfetta on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Common Fishing Practice Called Bottom Trawling Releases Significant Amounts of CO2 Into Earth’s Atmosphere

By Georgina Gustin

"Barbara H" pulls in its net as it is night fishing for squid off the San Pedro coastline in California. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images

Deemed Sustainable by Seafood Industry Monitors, Harvested California Squid Has an Unmeasurable Energy Footprint

By Georgina Gustin

People walk along the beach looking at property damaged by Hurricane Ian on September 29, 2022 in Bonita Springs, Florida. The storm made a U.S. landfall on Cayo Costa, Florida, and brought high winds, storm surges, and rain to the area causing severe damage. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Report Charts Climate Change’s Growing Impact in the US, While Stressing Benefits of Action

By Marianne Lavelle, Katie Surma, Kiley Price, Nicholas Kusnetz

The photo posted on Twitter on July 22, 2020 purporting to show hundreds of brightly illuminated Chinese ships fishing illegally.

A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat

By Ian Urbina

Michele Klimczak, the coastal debris coordinator for the Fishers Island Conservancy, sits in front of a day’s haul of garbage, nearly 150 lbs, collected over a few hours on a Fishers Island, New York beach. She weighs and records the trash she collects, the record of which is available to view on https://www.ficonservancy.org/

The ‘Sisyphus of Trash’ Struggles to Clean Relentless Waves of Plastic From a New York Island’s Beaches

By Devin Speak

The sun starts to rise behind an offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

A New White House Plan Prioritizes Using the Ocean’s Power to Fight Climate Change

By Bob Berwyn

Fishermen pull up fish in their gillnet during a midwater pair trawl on the Gulf of Gascony sea, off the coast of France, on Jan. 8, 2020. Protecting high seas ecosystems would also benefit commercial fisheries nearer to the shore by boosting overall fish stocks. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming?

By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to reporters on the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria at the UN headquarters in New York, Feb. 9, 2023. Credit: Xie E/Xinhua via Getty Images

Sea Level Rise Could Drive 1 in 10 People from Their Homes, with Dangerous Implications for International Peace, UN Secretary General Warns

By Bob Berwyn

An office worker returning home in Chittagong as the city faces unprecedented flooding due to rising sea level, the release of water from the Kaptai Lake, and the suspension of the Karnaphuli River dredging. Credit: K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images

Twice as Much Land in Developing Nations Will be Swamped by Rising Seas than Previously Projected, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

Aerial view of a heavily touristed reef near resort developments near Sharm El-sheikh, Egypt. Runoff from landscaping at the resorts is a potential threat to the health of the reefs. Credit: Bob Berwyn

The Red Sea Could be a Climate Refuge for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

A wave crashes off Teahupoo, Tahiti, on Aug. 28, 2019. Credit: Brian Bielmann/AFP via Getty Images

Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

Demonstrators with The Animal Welfare Institute hold a rally to save the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise, outside the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 5, 2018. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California

By Delaney Dryfoos

Southern Resident killer whales encountered during NOAA's PODs (Pacific Orcinus Distribution Survey) in October 2021 near the west end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Two Towns in Washington Take Steps Toward Recognizing the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas

By Katie Surma

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