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How Oysters Filter and Clean Seawater

How Oysters Filter and Clean Seawater

An oyster looks like one of the least impressive animals in the sea: a lumpy shell cemented to a rock or a piling, sitting motionless for its entire life. Yet each one is a tireless, living water-treatment plant, and a r…

Mon Jun 29 20264 min
Three Years After Cyclone Freddy, Floodwaters Still Cover Malawi's Elephant Marsh Farmland as Wetland Resilience Collapses

Three Years After Cyclone Freddy, Floodwaters Still Cover Malawi's Elephant Marsh Farmland as Wetland Resilience Collapses

More than 1,000 farming families in Malawi's Lower Shire Valley have lost their farmland permanently since Cyclone Freddy devastated Elephant Marsh in 2023, with floodwaters that have not receded in three years exposing…

Fri Jun 26 20265 min
Six Marine Protected Areas Recognised as Blue Parks at Our Ocean Conference, Four From Africa

Six Marine Protected Areas Recognised as Blue Parks at Our Ocean Conference, Four From Africa

The Marine Conservation Institute recognised six marine protected areas as Blue Parks at the Our Ocean conference in Mombasa on 16 June 2026, honouring sites in Madagascar, Senegal, Chile, and Canada whose management has…

Wed Jun 24 20264 min
How Ocean Currents Move Heat Around the Planet

How Ocean Currents Move Heat Around the Planet

The sun does not warm the Earth evenly. The tropics receive a flood of solar energy while the poles get only a glancing share, and if nothing moved that heat around, the equator would be scorching and the polar regions e…

Tue Jun 23 20265 min
Saudi Arabia's Farasan Islands Hareed Festival Reveals the Limits of Science and the Depth of Traditional Marine Knowledge

Saudi Arabia's Farasan Islands Hareed Festival Reveals the Limits of Science and the Depth of Traditional Marine Knowledge

Every year since before living memory, hundreds of people on the Farasan Islands in the Red Sea wade into the water to catch longnose parrotfish, known locally as hareed, which gather at Al-Hasis Beach in a dense aggrega…

Fri Jun 19 20264 min
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