Clicking with Your Kin
How sperm whale sounds are like team uniforms.
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Why We Need Muck to Fight Rising Sea Levels
We’ve starved marshes of their essential sediment—now can we repair them in time?
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Where Have All the Snow Crabs Gone?
Eleven billion crabs vanished. Is climate change really to blame?
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The Mystery of the Blue Whale Songs
Earth’s largest animals are singing in ever-lower tones, and nobody knows why.
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Making Sense of Big Ocean Data
Ocean conservation science is experiencing a data explosion—but can we utilize it properly?
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Coral Restoration Goes Big
Saving reefs is possible—but there are challenges.
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How It Feels to Surf the World’s Biggest Wave
Riding Earth’s mighty forces in Nazaré, Portugal.
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To Protect the Ocean, Refinance Your Debt
How “blue bonds” turn national debt into funds for marine conservation.
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The Hermaphrodite at the Bottom of the Sea
Far beneath the surface, an evolutionary paradox.
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Bioluminescence Is Nature’s Love Light
When sparks fly, new species follow.
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To Stop Illegal Fishing, Send a Seabird
Illegal fishing is too big a problem for humans to handle alone.
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That Snapper You’re Eating Might Be 80 Years Old
Shouldn’t we respect our animal elders, too?
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To Save the Deep Ocean, We Should Mine the Moon
The moon contains a lot of mineral wealth—but how practical is mining it?
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It’s High Time to Protect Our High Seas
The oceans belong to no one. But we can all take part to protect them.
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Another Path to Intelligence
Octopus brains are nothing like ours—yet we have much in common.
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Humans Are Overzealous Whale Morticians
We hastily dispose of dead whales, ignoring the ecological significance of their carcasses.
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Snorkeling in Their Own Plastic
Dave Ford chartered a cruise for Fortune 500 company leaders and activists to dive into an environmental crisis.
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Swimming in Noise
For sea life, the ocean is becoming an intolerable racket.
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The Case for Popularizing Ocean Science
Why Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Carlie Wiener thinks octopuses and science fiction matter to ocean conservation.
