• Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UN Environment Programme publish first annual New Plastics Economy Global Commitment progress report

Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we are only just beginning to understand their full potential.

Research undermines widely held idea that favorable conditions in winter habitat make up for the long, arduous migratory flights

Three new global initiatives for mapping the world’s entire ocean floor have been announced in London at a special conference organized by The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, the international collaborative project to produce a complete, freely available map of the seafloor by the year 2030.

New research shows that many larval fish species from different ocean habitats are ingesting plastics in their preferred nursery habitat.

An international team of marine scientists have completed a six-year whale shark study. The study used a novel combination of several monitoring techniques, including state-of-the-art acoustic and satellite tracking technologies. The study examined a potential whale shark nursery in the Red Sea, offering insights for conservation.

A new scientific paper written for the High Level Panel a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds that, with better management and technological innovation, the ocean could provide over six times more food than it does today - more than two thirds of the animal protein that will be needed to feed the future global population, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).