12 Aug 2025
Photo by alexlesho17 After years of scientific investigation, researchers have finally identified the cause behind one of the largest marine mass mortalities on record—a bacterial pathogen that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars along the Pacific coast since 2013. A team of West Coast researchers published their breakthrough findings in Nature Ecology […]
05 Aug 2025
Photo by Yannis Papanastasopoulos Ocean oxygen levels are declining at an unprecedented rate, with new research revealing that ancient episodes of deoxygenation caused widespread collapse of deep-sea fish populations, offering a stark warning for marine ecosystems facing accelerating oxygen loss today. A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment demonstrates how mesopelagic fish […]
22 Jul 2025
Photo by Alan David Robb A sweeping new scientific review has laid bare the long-lasting and system-wide impacts of the 2014–2016 marine heat wave that engulfed the northeast Pacific Ocean. Described by researchers as the most extensive assessment of its kind, the study reveals how rising ocean temperatures are not only bleaching corals and […]
10 Jun 2025
Photo of beach in Adelaide, Australia South Australia’s coastline is grappling with an unprecedented environmental disaster as a toxic algal bloom, exacerbated by marine heatwaves, continues to decimate marine life and disrupt local fisheries. A bloom of unprecedented scale Since March, the harmful algal bloom (HAB), primarily composed of Karenia mikimotoi, has spread across […]