The Ocean Brief
Short ocean stories and insights covering science, policy, innovation, and the ocean community
Climate Change Impacts on Kenya's Fishery-dependent communities
We know climate change is altering coral reef ecosystems, but how will these changes impact the human communities that depend on them for their livelihood?
Community-based conservation to rebuild fish stocks
Vanua Levu's Nagigi community want to create an aqoliqoli - a short-term no take marine protected area - to ensure a sustainable future.
Eavesdropping on an underwater world: Technology for Ocean Science
Acoustic monitoring technology allows us to listen in on life beneath the waves
The ocean and its inhabitants aren't static, so why do we manage them as if they are?
If we want to protect marine life that moves across the ocean, the protection should move with them - not stay in one place.
Cool critter of the month: the chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius)
The chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) is one cool ocean critter!
Are we really protecting North Atlantic right whales?
The east coast USA has several measures in place to protect the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) - but just how effective are they?
Oceans on acid: climate change's "evil twin"
Climate change is perhaps the most well-known consequence of our continued emissions, but of increasing concern is climate change’s “evil twin” – ocean acidification.
With ever-warming waters, some European fish are on the move
As sea temperatures continue to climb, a number of European fish species are moving to keep cool.
Deep sea sediments offer plutonium-244 insights
Clues from the ocean reveal heavy element production may not originate from standard supernovae after all.