Already on Brink, Right Whales Are Pushed Closer to the Edge

By Deborah Cramer

As Oceans Warm, the World’s Kelp Forests Begin to Disappear

By Alastair Bland

How Aquaculture Is Threatening the Native Fish Species of Africa

By Adam Welz

Conservation

Beyond Biodiversity: A New Way of Looking at How Species Interconnect

By Jim Robbins

The World Eyes Yet Another Unconventional Source of Fossil Fuels

By Nicola Jones

Feeling the Heat: How Fish Are Migrating from Warming Waters

By Ben Goldfarb

Interview

A Call for a Hippocratic Oath on Protecting the World’s Oceans

By Diane Toomey

Why Does Trump Want to Pull Plug on the Cleanup of the Chesapeake?

By Tom Horton

A Close-Up Look at the Catastrophic Bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef

By Richard Schiffman

Technology

A Splash of River Water Now Reveals the DNA of All Its Creatures

By Jim Robbins

No Longer Wild

How Natural World Heritage Sites Are Being Spoiled

By Richard Conniff

An Unusually Warm Arctic Year: Sign of Future Climate Turmoil?

By Fen Montaigne

Full Speed Ahead

Shipping Plans Grow as Arctic Ice Fades

By Ed Struzik

African Wetlands Project

Are ‘Blue Carbon’ Projects a Win for the Climate and the People?

By Winifred Bird

Photo Essay

How Pollution is Devastating an Indonesian Lake

By Binsar Bakkara

Artificial Islands

The Rising Environmental Toll of China’s Offshore Island Grab

By Mike Ives

Natural Aquaculture

Can We Save the Oceans By Farming Them?

By Richard Schiffman

High Stakes on the High Seas

A Growing Call for International Marine Reserves

By Nicola Jones

How Climate Change Could Jam The World’s Ocean Circulation

By Nicola Jones

Video Contest Winner - 1st Place

The Dungeness Crab Faces Uncertain Future on West Coast

By Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele