Study highlights risks of genetically modified fish breeding with wild stock

Protecting mangroves to lock carbon away may be an economic way to curb climate change

Two new species of the gorgonian inhabiting barnacles occur exclusively in a symbiotic relationship with a black coral host.

The health of the Chesapeake Bay in the US East coast improved slightly last year with underwater grasses the only area suffering a setback.

Australia can be a world leader in designing marine reserves that keep pace with changes in the climate and human activity and still successfully protect their sea life.

According to University of Florida researchers there are three times as many marine species which remain undescribed, than are known today.

The dugong is threatened by extinction, but the Pacific Islands region support efforts to save the world’s largest remaining population of dugongs.

UK oceanographers have thought of a novel way to measure the global ocean – weigh it. Thus, solving the biggest problem in sea level science.

Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world’s leading marine scientists has warned.