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Scientific Breakthroughs

• Arctic Marine Heatwaves Study: Alfred Wegener Institute research details how Arctic marine heatwaves differ due to sea...

Species Discoveries

• 🔥 Walking Shark Species: A new walking shark species, Hemiscyllium dugeonae, has been discovered in Papua New Guinea.
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Marine Protection Milestones

• 🔥 Madagascar and Zanzibar Protections: Madagascar announced full national protection for 14 shark and ray species,...

The Trump administration reversed its plan to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative after fierce bipartisan congressional pushback.

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Fiji and Panama launched the Mesopelagic Zone Conservation Challenge at the Our Ocean Conference, calling for global action to protect the twilight...

Global Conservation's video exposes how marine protected areas suffer from missing law enforcement, leaving wildlife and habitats vulnerable despite designations. This gap complicates real conservation progress.

• 9 African nations commit to expanding marine protections, advancing the global 30x30 target
• Madagascar and Zanzibar declare sweeping new...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative narrowly avoided dismantling after the Senate unanimously blocked NSF funding for removal, safeguarding continuous...

• Summer sailors heading through the Great South Channel SMA must reduce speed to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.
• Vessels 65 feet or...

A YouTube video documents an extremely rare encounter with false killer whales off San Diego.

El Niño conditions officially began June 11, 2026, and are forecast to strengthen through winter, elevating bleaching risks across the Pacific,...

A new documentary by Andy Casagrande captures great white sharks at Guadalupe Island and Seal Island, revealing hunting behaviors shaped by millions of years of ocean change.

Eight new deep-sea species named in 2026, including from the mineral-rich Clarion-Clipperton Zone, highlight the urgent race to catalog biodiversity before seabed mining erases it.

El Niño returned in June 2026, with Sentinel-6 satellite data showing rising sea surface heights across the equatorial Pacific as waters warmed. NOAA...

USGS scientists collected 38 box cores from the Samoa Basin in April 2026 to characterize polymetallic nodules, abyssal sediments, and fauna for...

A YOLO-based automated detection system accurately identifies silky sharks, tiger sharks, and tunas, offering a powerful new tool for marine population monitoring.

Expeditions & Research

• REV Ocean Sargasso Sea Expedition: NOC's Professor Alex Rogers will co-lead the REV Ocean Sargasso Sea Expedition...

Rising ocean temperatures are creating acoustic hotspots that sharply increase sound speed in regions like the north-western Atlantic.

This acoustic...

Is seabed mining worth the environmental cost when terrestrial supplies already meet projected demand?

Policy analysis highlights major barriers:...

NOC Professor Alex Rogers will co-lead the REV Ocean Sargasso Sea Expedition from 2027, delivering baseline data on unexplored deep pelagic and benthic ecosystems to support BBNJ marine protected areas and threatened eel spawning research.