Oceanic treasures

Marine life is a source for future medicines

High cadmium leads to decline in oysters

According to reports

Troubled waters

Penguin paradise and geological freak: Why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

The island is a subantarctic environment crucial for seabirds marine mammals

Marine heatwaves during winter could have dire impacts on New Zealand fisheries and herald more summer storms

These marine heatwaves can have devastating impacts on ocean ecosystems.

Mumbai, Kerala most affected by marine litter; microplastics pose a major threat

For the first time, the researchers have compiled 1,237 scientific studies on marine litter into a single, comprehensive database

After Great Barrier Reef, bleaching kills 70 per cent of Japan’s coral reef

Coral in the Sekisei lagoon in Okinawa has turned dark brown and is covered with algae, according to a government study

Govt finalising a national policy on the blue economy: Jitendra Singh

The policy envisages the optimal utilisation of all sectors of the maritime domain for sustainable development of coastal areas

Iridescent Skin: New book explores role of cage diving in demystifying, conserving white sharks

Raj Sekhar Aich explores the fraught relationship between humans an sharks through cage-diving experience in this intimate account

Mumbai Coastal Road: Pathway to ruin

On July 16, the Bombay High Court ordered that construction on the $1.7 billion Mumbai Coastal Road, to be built by reclaiming the city’s …

How water flows across continents

Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created graphic maps of watersheds across the world. His works can be found here.

International treaty aims to tackle illegal, unreported fishing

The implementation of the agreement may prove to be challenging for developing nations and small-island states 

Oceans may become too acidic for animals to smell their way around

Ocean acidifcation will significantly affect the fitness, physiology, reproduction and behaviour of everything in the sea from sharks and whales …

Unravelling the genetic secrets of the Symbiodinium algae

A team of researchers may have discovered the genetic secret behind what may allow certain species of algae living in corals to tolerate higher …

20 years of talks later, half the Earth’s surface area to have binding environment treaty

United Nations members negotiate instrument under UN Convention on Law of the Sea to conserve, sustainably use marine biological diversity of …

Ocean acidification ‘changing’ marine biodiversity

Study sheds light on how excess carbon dioxide in oceans is affecting marine species and in turn the global food chain

Caribbean countries growing at the cost of their ocean: report

The Caribbean Sea is a crucial resource for the 40 million people who inhabit the region’s small island states

It's time to speak up about noise pollution in the oceans

Noise is the "forgotten pollutant", but the good news is that unlike many other pollutants it can be switched off if we try

Win some, lose some

Even as we discover new life, we are losing others. A 10-year long global project--Census of Marine Life--created a map indicating the abundance …

Three African nations come together to protect Benguela ecosystem

The area of ocean space that stretches from Port Elizabeth in South Africa to the north of Angola is regarded as one of the richest ecosystems on …

Marine antibiotic

From a microbe found in the Sunderbans

Protests over nuclear land in West Bengal

Low on mussel power

Ecological imbalance in the coastal areas of Kerala has caused food poisoning in people who consumed marine mussel

Toxic tides

Phytoplankton are wrecking marine ecology as scientists struggle to find a way to stop further attacks