The Living Oceans Foundation has named its 2026 Science Without Borders winners, who turned plankton, archaea, and zooxanthellae into images of the engine room of the blue planet. sevenseasmedia.org/tiny-organisms-big-impact

New evidence submitted by Greenpeace International to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) suggests deep-sea mining contractors, particularly those linked to The Metals Company (TMC), may have breached exploration contracts and international law. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/new-evi...

A new AI method called GOFLOW turns weather satellites into a high-res lens on ocean surface currents. sevenseasmedia.org/goflow-ai-sa...

A Brazilian flag without blue or green? Plus coral recovery on Little Cayman, a polystyrene-free marina, UNESCO's nature network, Vanuatu on the cover. SEVENSEAS No. 132 is out. sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr... #marineconservation #Vanuatu #SEVENSEASMedia

Ocean This Week is up. Five stories shaping ocean policy and science, all in a minute. Follow me and @sevenseas-media.bsky.social for more ocean news.

Blue plus yellow makes green. Remove the blue, and the green is gone. Droga5 São Paulo's No Blue, No Green campaign turned color theory into a case for Brazil's ocean. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/no-blue-no-g...

Issue Nº 133 belongs to Pride. This June, SEVENSEAS Media is dedicating our pages to queerness in, on, and around the ocean. Words, photos, illustration, poetry, video, art. If you are queer and the sea is part of your life, we want to hear from you. 📬 14 May 2026 · [email protected]

Three years. 47 countries. 250 communities. On the Edges of Earth expedition, Andi Cross found something the news cycle keeps missing: people on the frontlines of the climate crisis aren't paralyzed. They're already at work. 🌊 New piece on: sevenseasmedia.org/edges-of-earth-three-year-expedition

Saturday is World Penguin Day. A 2025 satellite study found emperor penguin numbers fell 22% across a third of Antarctica in 15 years, more than double earlier estimates. The driver is unstable sea ice. The fix is emissions. Still time for colonies with a fighting chance. 🐧 #WorldPenguinDay

Europe's first Whale Heritage Site is off Tenerife. 28 cetacean species live there year-round. It's now threatened by wastewater, development, and a port project. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/tenerife-whale-sanctuary-marine-reserve-atlantic/

Tenerife beyond the resort strip: laurel forests, volcanic calderas, cave villages, resident whales. A 7-day nature itinerary. sevenseasmedia.org/tenerife-travel-guide-2026/

700+ aging, uninsured oil tankers are moving billions of barrels of crude through sensitive marine ecosystems with no meaningful oversight. #OceanConservation #ShadowFleet

A Trinidad marine biologist created a mermaid to teach island kids about the ocean. sevenseasmedia.org/small-islands-ocean-literacy-storytelling-caribbean-mertrina/

This week in ocean news: High Seas Treaty negotiations, 24 new deep-sea species discovered, the first-ever filmed sperm whale birth, and growing momentum on fisheries subsidies. 🌊 #OceanNews #MarineScience Full article links at SevenSeasMedia.org

SEVENSEAS No. 131 is live. From Tenerife's threatened pilot whales to a Trinidadian mermaid, Ghana's first coral bootcamp, Antarctic blue carbon, and the shadow tanker fleet turned geopolitical crisis. Read here: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr... DM us at [email protected] to contribute!

Ship abandonments hit 410 in 2025. Some still carry cargo. No crew. No insurance. The shadow fleet crisis just got worse. Six-month update by The Ocean Foundation president. sevenseasmedia.org/shadow-fleet-escalation-environmental-threat-geopolitical-flashpoint/

Adding iron to the ocean to capture carbon may backfire. URI study finds nutrients and carbon run on different clocks. sevenseasmedia.org/ocean-carbon-removal-nutrient-cycling-overlooked-uri-study/

Ghana's first underwater science bootcamp teaches marine biology students to dive, research, and film. Only 1% ever see the ocean they study. Via @pineforestmedia. sevenseasmedia.org/ghana-coral-reef-conservation-dive-lab/

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Antarctica's seafloor captures carbon and stores it for thousands of years. Dr. Narissa Bax explains why it matters. Via @pineforestmedia. sevenseasmedia.org/antarctic-blue-carbon-southern-ocean-climate/

Meet Jacqueline Rosa. Nine years after her degree, she went back to study how ocean chemistry affects oyster farms. sevenseasmedia.org/jacqueline-r...

War doesn't stop at the waterline. Our March issue follows the Persian Gulf crisis beneath the surface: imperiled coral, disrupted supply chains, Iran's threatened biodiversity. Plus: oyster science, queer travel and more. sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-travel-magazine-no-130-march-2026/

A queer traveller went to North Korea, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. What he found wasn't danger. sevenseasmedia.org/they-warned-me-i-went-anyway-queer-travel/

A URI grad student spent 18 months tracking how ocean chemistry affects Rhode Island oyster farms. sevenseasmedia.org/uri-oyster-farming-climate-research-2026/

Norwegian students invented a $2,000 reusable box that protects artifacts from ocean oxidation. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/norwegian-students-oxybox-underwater-artifact-preservation/

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February's SEVENSEAS takes you to Tunisia: small-scale fishers, coastal resilience, and communities navigating climate change. Also inside: a record sunfish rescue, ocean heat data, and reforms reshaping marine careers. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr... #marineconservation #tunisia

Tomorrow 9am EST: Will Sample from Florida International University explains what bull sharks do in the Everglades. Free webinar. angari.org/oceanexpertexchange

Tunisia showed me how land preserves memory. In the medina, you knock, wait, and history answers. Nothing is erased here; generosity keeps knowledge alive. Read Fernando's Sixteen Days in Tunisia: sevenseasmedia.org/sixteen-days...

PhD marine biologist turned artist. 40 years of T-shirts funding shark research. Guy Harvey's documentary premieres Feb 28 as FLIFF's closing night film. 🎬🦈 sevenseasmedia.org/guy-harvey-documentary-fort-lauderdale-film-festival-premiere-2026/

Marsh carbon discovery: some organic matter dissolves in porewater or hides in clay, inflating storage estimates but not helping marshes survive sea rise. URI team analyzed 23,000+ samples to catch the error. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/blue-carbon-...

Oceans absorbed record heat for ninth straight year: 23 zettajoules, over 200x global electricity use. Heat now penetrates 2km deep. Scientists: 'We can solve this with today's technology. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/ocean-warmin...

Darwin's rheas in Patagonia: 22 birds to 70+ in a decade. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/darwins-rhea-rewilding-patagonia-national-park/

The North Face founder donated 3 million acres to restore Patagonia. 10 years after his death, the rewilding vision spans four countries. Legacy through release, not accumulation. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/tompkins-conservation-legacy-rewilding-patagonia/

This month: Patagonia's rewilding meets ocean science. Featuring Cover Conservationist Dr Enrico Gennari (white shark researcher pushing science into action) + global updates on seafloor mapping, blue carbon, right whales, ocean policy & AI in conservation. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr...

He left Rome for white sharks and never looked back. Meet January's Cover Conservationist. sevenseasmedia.org/dr-enrico-gennari-cover-conservationist-january-2025/

Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) mapped 2 million km² of seafloor (the size of Greenland). They reconstructed the bow for cleaner sonar data, then added an AUV that dives 6,000m and stays down 72 hours. They named it The Childlike Empress. Read more: sevenseasmedia.org/schmidt-ocea...

I met Mario, a Longtooth Grouper in Tateyama, Japan. When the dominant male disappeared, she became he. The ocean treats transformation as ordinary while we turn it into politics. Maybe the reef's been trying to tell us something all along. Read Mark's full story: sevenseasmedia.org/mario-longto...

Coastal Norway celebrates winter when skrei cod come home. In Svolvær, 600 competitors fish for 30-kilo giants. In Henningsvær, festivals ban shopping malls in favor of northern lights, cinnamon rolls, and strong coffee. The ocean sets the calendar here. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/norway-skrei...

Norway became the first nation to approve deep-sea mining across 281,000 km² of Arctic seabed—an area larger than the UK where most species remain unnamed. Read: sevenseasmedia.org/norway-deep-sea-mining-arctic/

During Norway's polar night, auroras blaze overhead while 30 meters below, plankton throw their own light show. Turning Arctic waters into an upside-down constellation. Read here: sevenseasmedia.org/norway-biolu... #Bioluminescence #AuroraBorealis #PolarNight #OceanScience #SEVENSEASMedia

Our #127 December issue explores Norway's ocean stewardship, troubling plastics data, wildlife trade protections & a glimmer of hope for vaquitas. Giving Tuesday passed, but you can still help us serve the conservation community. Read our full issue: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr...

Issue #126 features dual covers: lush ecosystems and Niru Dorrian's conservation work. Journey through Egypt's ancient wisdom, corals surviving the unsurvivable, whale stress measured by silence. To conservationists: we see you. Share your stories. Read now: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr...

Hurricanes mix deep ocean nutrients upward, sparking phytoplankton blooms visible from space. Climate's paradox: destruction feeds life. Read more on SEVENSEAS Media: sevenseasmedia.org/hurricanes-o...

Welcome to our #125 issue! Abu Dhabi is regrowing reefs & reviving fisheries, right whales face survival, and hidden fresh water reshapes ocean science. Repair is possible, if we act now. Read now: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-tr... #marineconservation #sustainabletravel #sevenseasmedia

Mark Scodellaro went to the Maldives obsessed with tiger sharks, but at 40 meters down, narced and terrified, a thresher shark’s tail swish changed everything. Read Mark’s full story of transformation beneath the waves on our #124 issue here: sevenseasmedia.org/thresher-sha...

Sept 22 is World Car-Free Day. Every km you drive sheds 1 trillion microscopic tire particles into the environment. So, let's hang up those keys for a day and strut toward your destiny. Read out Sept. issue: tinyurl.com/39u34639 #WorldCarFreeDay #SustainableTransport #ClimateAction #SEVENSEASMedia

This week’s newsletter brings global conservation news, events, funding, + fresh ocean & environmental jobs. Sharing it helps strengthen our community to protect biodiversity & ecosystems. #OceanConservation #MarineConservation #SEVENSEASMedia @giacomoabrusci.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2tkxpawj

Welcome home to SEVENSEAS #124 September’s issue. A mix of stories that made us stop and think where each piece feels alive, like the ocean itself. Read the full issue here: tinyurl.com/5ysrtubz #marineconservation #magazinecover #sustainabletravel #marshallislands #sevenseasmedia

Submit your conservation photography to the SEVENSEAS Community Photobook & Contest, where every entry has the chance to be featured. Theme: wildlife, landscapes, conservation action, community, and more. Submit: [email protected] or visit our page: sevenseasmedia.org/sevenseas-co...