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Coming to a science museum IMAX theater near you, Hidden Pacific reveals never-before-seen footage of the Pacific Ocean’s marine national monuments. These critical ocean habitats are spaces designated for important scientific ecological research.

An approach that tackles the underlying causes of coral-reef decline could be applied to other habitats, argue Tiffany H. Morrison, Terry P. Hughes and colleagues. Coral reefs cover only 0.5% of the ocean floor, but they support almost 30% of the world’s marine fish species.

We can help solve climate change with a new legal framework, says Larissa Parker, a law student at McGill University.

Hopes of a breakthrough in international climate change ambitions are being downplayed for a landmark meeting in New York in a fortnight. The United Nations climate action summit looks set to disappoint the thousands of campaigners who will take to the city’s streets just days earlier.

The accumulation of marine litter in the world’s oceans over the past decades has risen. Plastic is ubiquitous, cheap to produce and extremely durable. Every piece of plastic ever produced still exists, therefore much of it has ended up, in the oceans.

On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with Jim Darling, a marine biologist who is here to play us some recordings of remarkably similar humpback whale songs from around the world.

Lawyer Farhana Yamin explains what drove her to civil disobedience after three decades of environmental advocacy for the IPCC, the United Nations and more.

Two-thirds of Americans believe climate change is either a crisis or a serious problem, with a majority wanting immediate action to address global heating and its damaging consequences, major new polling has found.

When Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral-reef system, was hit by record-breaking marine heat waves that bleached two-thirds of it in 2016 and 2017, many researchers were left in a state of shock.

Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world.