Ocean Wins

Deep-sea crustaceans caught hitching rides on giant sea spiders

Tiny shrimps hitchhike on giant sea spiders thousands of meters underwater.

Cuttlefish suckers reveal how they grip rough prey—and could inspire better technology

Tiny pillars on cuttlefish suckers help them grip rough prey, inspiring new suction tech.

51 ways to get the planet tipping the right way

51 ready-to-go fixes could trigger an unstoppable wave of positive environmental change.

The world’s largest battery-electric ferry just crossed an ocean

A 130-meter ferry is now the biggest electric vehicle ever built — and it just crossed an ocean.

Long-term oyster reef restoration shows clear success in murky waters

Restored oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay are creating homes that support larger, more diverse

Tiny oyster larvae rely on gravity to feed

Tiny oyster larvae use their own heavy shells plus gravity to pull food into their mouths.

BBC Audio | What in the World | How do we get plastic out of our oceans?

A truckload of rubbish hits the ocean every minute — and teams are fighting back.

Marine bacteria team up to break down one of the ocean's toughest carbon-storing molecules

453 bacterial genes split the work to break down the ocean's toughest carbon-storing molecule.

‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes

A tribe chooses isolation, and India protects their right to be left alone.

The Florida Aquarium Joins Statewide Effort to Create the Next Generation of Florida’s Coral Reef - The Boca Raton Tribune

Scientists made 61,000 baby corals to help Florida's reefs survive.

Florida's Manatees Are Making a Major Comeback - Animals Around The Globe

Manatee numbers hold steady after rescuers fed them 600,000 pounds of lettuce.

In 2015, Hawaii rescued fragments of a coral found only in Kaneohe Bay; after its wild colonies disappeared, scientists grew it in a nursery and returned it to the reef - The Times of India

A coral found nowhere else on Earth vanished from the wild, then scientists regrew and returned it

More than a tonne of plastic cleared from Isles of Scilly beaches

16 volunteers hauled 1.3 tonnes of plastic off 9 remote Scilly islands in 3 weeks.

Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean | ScienceDaily

Bacteria living 2 km deep in the ocean have evolved enzymes that can digest PET plastic.

Tiny cyanobacteria may be the secret heroes of ocean carbon sequestration

Tiny blue-green microbes, not big algae, do about two-thirds of the ocean's deep carbon storage.

SSI Partners With The Coral Planters, Blue Oceans For Reef Restoration

Divers planted 40,315 corals and restored 4,032 m² of reef since 2017.

Podcast Transcript September 11th, 2026— NYC bans AI for 500,000 students, and seven other solutions

New York City banned AI for 500,000 students — the country's broadest such move.

Planes on a snake? Scientists discover various crab species hitching rides on sea snakes

Scientists found the first crabs ever documented living on sea snakes — 371 snakes held the secret.

Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters

Iceland, one of only 3 whaling nations, may ban commercial whaling for good.

New genomic tool for clams boosts sustainable aquaculture

A new DNA chip with 63,000 markers could breed disease-resistant clams.