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Marine life

March 2026

  • Aerial view of a whale surfacing in the ocean with a plume of water shooting from its blowhole.

    ‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico

  • New anemone identified during the Coral Sea voyage

    Deepwater discoveries: scientists find more than 110 new fish and invertebrate species in the Coral Sea

  • Taketoshi Niina walks up a ramp from a dock carrying a basket of oysters

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

  • A catch of Atlantic mackerel piled up in a fish separator on board a pelagic trawler

    ‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters

  • Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico

  • Rare footage shows whales working together to support mother and her newborn – video

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  • Whale stranded off Germany swims to freedom after days of efforts to save it

  • Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her

  • Down to Earth newsletter
    Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing

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  • Dolphins, stingers and ‘salt tongue’: an epic ocean swim around New Zealand’s east coast

  • Ukraine in depth
    ‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point

  • Whale stranded in Baltic will die unless helped to move soon, say experts

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It smells like a rancid fish and chip shop’: at sea with the Antarctic’s krill supertrawlers

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park

  • Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war

  • Oldest-known whale song recording from 1949 – audio

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  • Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds

  • I love vultures, mosquitoes and, yes, even wasps. This is why you should too

    Jo Wimpenny
  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on

  • Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?

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