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When people think about ocean life, they imagine whales, sharks, coral reefs, and giant kelp forests. But the vast majority of life in the ocean is invisible. In a single teaspoon of seawater, there can be millions of microbe...

Deep sea mining and domesticated cats do not seem like they belong in the same story… but they are. In this episode of the How to Protect the Ocean Podcast , Andrew Lewin sits down with deep-sea ecologist Dr. Andrew Thaler to...

We Know How to Protect the Ocean. So Why Aren’t We Doing It? We do not have an ocean knowledge problem. We have an implementation problem. The science behind fisheries recovery, pollution control, climate adaptation, and high...

High Seas Treaty: Nearly half the planet lies beyond national borders, and for decades it has operated under fragmented rules and weak oversight. Now, countries have agreed to a historic global deal to protect biodiversity in...

The ocean is no longer invisible. Satellites can now track fishing vessels across the planet in near real time. So if we can see the exploitation, what happens next? In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , we break down...

Shark Science Career is brutally competitive, and many graduates struggle to find paid work after university. So what happens when passion meets rejection? In this episode of Beyond Jaws, shark scientist Kristian Parton share...

Marine protected areas now cover more than 8 percent of the global ocean. Governments announce new boundaries. Press releases celebrate historic milestones. But here is the uncomfortable truth: a line on a map does not stop i...

Nature is protected by laws on paper, but what happens when those laws are not enforced? On the high seas, beyond national borders, illegal fishing, whaling, and environmental exploitation often operate in legal gray zones. E...

Nature is absorbing more heat than we realize, and most of it is going into the ocean. Global ocean heat content has reached record highs, confirming what climate scientists have warned for years: the ocean has absorbed more ...

Seagrass meadows may be the most powerful climate solution underwater, and almost no one is talking about them. Research published in Nature Climate Change shows that seagrass ecosystems store vast amounts of carbon in their ...