AI and satellites reveal a shocking maritime cover up

Beneath the radar of traditional monitoring systems, dark vessels—industrial ships that disable tracking or operate in secrecy—roam unchecked, their actions often tied to illegal fishing, smuggling, and environmental destruction. Read more here.

Whale sharks use offshore oil rigs as food stops during migration, harming conservation efforts

These spotted behemoths don’t just randomly cruise the seas – they follow a network of natural and human-made structures that dot their underwater highways. Read more here.

Australia exceeds UN target for ocean protection

The Albanese Labor Government’s proposal to quadruple the size of the Heard and McDonald Islands Marine Parks has been signed off by the Governor General, formalising a massive 310,000 km2 expansion of the protected area. Read more here.

Divers haul 100kg of rubbish from ocean bed

Describing it as a “never ending effort”, its president Sim Fui said this time around, they collected 100kg of bottles and plastics, among other rubbish that sits on the base of the ocean. Read more here.

Sea stars shed light on human reproduction

Michael Hart and his colleague Daryn Stover sifted through mounds of data going back over a million years in their quest to find out whether humans carry the same allele differences as sea stars. Read more here.