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The expansive coastal shallows of the Banc d’Arguin National Park make it one of the world’s most important wintering grounds for migratory wading birds such as dunlins and curlew sandpipers
Protected Areas

Banc d’Arguin: A blue carbon custodian

Plastics

Plastic river: Following the waste that’s choking the Chao Phraya

Under Threat

What’s killing South Africa’s seals?

Biodiversity

In pictures: Marine species on the brink

Aquaculture

China’s coastline in transition

Deep-sea mining

Species threatened by deep-sea mining

Protected Areas

Chile’s latest marine park

Under Threat

Call of the Blue: the fragility of marine life – in photos

What We Eat

60 days at sea

Aquaculture

Inside Xiangshan’s struggling fishing industry

Tourism

Zhejiang fishermen switch to tourism

Jellyfish. Bobbing along on the ocean surface, plastic bags are mistaken for jellyfish by hungry turtles.
Culture

Plastic fish

Overfishing

Chinese aquaculture is driving fisheries to the brink

Overfishing

China’s distant water fishing fleet growing unsustainably

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Red lines moving out from a central point on a map of the Pacific ocean: Modelling from Blue Peril documentary showing how far, in three months, ocean currents would carry tailings waste from deep sea mining site Article
Biodiversity

‘Blue Peril’ reveals how deep-sea mining would impact Pacific Islands

Women migrant workers sleep during a break at a harbour processing facility in Mangaluru, southern India Article
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Women anchor global fishing, but get a raw deal

View estuary mixed flock egrets ducks gulls waders incoming tide Shenzhen City background Mai Po Nature Reserve Hong Kong China Opinion
Biodiversity

Ecological redlines triple China’s protected waterbird sites

School of yellow and red fish in a shipwreck Explainer
Deep-sea mining

Brazil’s ‘Blue Amazon’, and the promise and perils of seabed mining

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