NOAA rollbacks are reopening some of the most heavily protected waters in the U.S. Pacific to commercial fishing, and Andrew breaks down what's changing and why it matters. NOAA's new operational roadmap, tied to a 2025 executive order on seafood competitiveness, is opening the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea, Rose Atoll, and…
Is deep sea mining a climate solution? Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, is reported to be a speaker at the New York Times Climate Forward event during Climate Week NYC, and that framing matters for how the public sees the ocean and the energy transition. Marine biologist Andrew…
A marine biologist just reached 50,000 students with an ocean conservation campaign, and she's never done this work full time. Rebecca Daniel runs The Marine Diaries, an ocean storytelling nonprofit, entirely as a side hustle alongside her day job in climate communications. This clip is pulled from Andrew's Ocean People…
The reef and mangrove connection between two habitats usually funded and defended as separate causes runs deeper than most conservation campaigns account for. This clip is pulled from Andrew's Story 3 segment on the September 16, 2026 episode of Ocean Decoded Live. A decade-long partnership between Australian Institute of Marine…
Marine rewilding is what happens after a marine protected area gets drawn on a map, not instead of it. A protected boundary keeps people out, but it doesn't automatically bring back a reef's top predators or reconnect habitats that have already been cut off from each other. This clip is…
Deep sea mining just landed a speaking slot at one of journalism's biggest climate events. On September 23, The New York Times puts Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, on stage at Climate Forward 2026, pitching Pacific seabed nodules as a climate solution. But TMC's U.S. permitting path through…
Deep sea mining just landed a speaking slot at one of journalism's biggest climate events. On September 23, The New York Times puts Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, on stage at Climate Forward 2026, pitching Pacific seabed nodules as a climate solution. But TMC's U.S. permitting path through…
Seagrass conservation just took a direct hit. In August 2026, a marine heatwave wiped out a 500,000-seed restoration planting in North Wales within days, leaving a single surviving shoot on otherwise bare sand. The scientist behind that project, Dr. Richard Unsworth, has spent more than 20 years building a career,…
River sharks and rays make up an entire category of animal that's fallen through the gap between ocean and freshwater conservation. While great whites, tiger sharks, and manta rays draw research funding and public attention, roughly 60 species of sharks and rays that depend on rivers, estuaries, and other inland…
You've probably assumed that once a patch of ocean gets protected, nature handles the rest on its own. That's not wrong, just incomplete. A growing marine rewilding movement argues protection is the floor, not the ceiling: some ecological functions, top predator populations, the connections between habitats, don't come back just…
You've probably assumed that once a patch of ocean gets protected, nature handles the rest on its own. That's not wrong, just incomplete. A growing marine rewilding movement argues protection is the floor, not the ceiling: some ecological functions, top predator populations, the connections between habitats, don't come back just…
North Atlantic right whale population data has moved one direction for over a decade: down. This year, for the first time in a while, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans reports that decline appears to have halted. This clip is pulled from Andrew's Story 1 segment on the September 15,…
Emily Cunningham's ocean career proves you don't need a science degree to make a real difference for the ocean. She started with unpaid turtle patrols in Sri Lanka, a volunteer stint with the Sea Watch Foundation, and unpaid time at the North Wales Wildlife Trust. No PhD, no glamorous first…
Kelp forest restoration gets treated as one of the ocean's feel-good climate wins, the kind of thing you can donate to and point at as proof of progress. A new essay in PLOS Biology says the math doesn't support that framing. Climate-driven kelp losses are running 1,000 to 10,000 times…
Marine heat waves usually mean bad news for the ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide, and in the open ocean, that holds true. CO2 uptake drops by about 8% during a heat wave, warmer water simply holds less dissolved gas. But a new global study found the opposite happening along…
North Atlantic right whales show real signs of recovery this year: Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans reports the critically endangered population appears to be stabilizing after a decade of decline, now estimated at roughly 384 whales including about 70 breeding females. This season logged over 680 visual and 2,000…
North Atlantic right whales show real signs of recovery this year: Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans reports the critically endangered population appears to be stabilizing after a decade of decline, now estimated at roughly 384 whales including about 70 breeding females. This season logged over 680 visual and 2,000…
Marine heatwaves are supposed to mean less carbon absorbed by the ocean, and mostly, they do. A new global study led by Zhentao Hu, mostly out of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Germany, analyzed 45 coastal regions worldwide across 35 years, 1985 to 2020, and found a sharp split. In the open…
Marine heatwaves are supposed to mean less carbon absorbed by the ocean, and mostly, they do. A new global study led by Zhentao Hu, mostly out of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Germany, analyzed 45 coastal regions worldwide across 35 years, 1985 to 2020, and found a sharp split. In the open…
Why this marine biologist studies people as much as sharks starts with one brutal night in Cuba in 2018. Melissa Cristina Márquez was filming for Discovery's Shark Week when a crocodile lashed out and dragged her by the leg, leaving roughly 80 stitches behind. She survived, has spoken publicly about…
