The Ocean Voyages Institute retrieved 211,644 pounds of discarded fishing gear, consumer plastics and other waste—some of which had been floating for decades.

Sixteen new stamps feature the waters and wildlife protected by the National Marine Sanctuary System, including a pufferfish and sand tiger shark.

Sunk in 2019, the old Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar airplane has become an artificial reef and a world-class dive site.

The *Melibe* nudibranch noticed a crack in the ecological framework to be filled with a body plan just crazy enough that it could work.

The Mexican government has invoked its national security powers to push forward the construction of a tourist train being built the Caribbean coast, threatening its cave systems.

Warming waters are pushing southern fish to increasingly expand to the Mediterranean’s northern waters. Divers across the region are supporting scientists with the data they need to study how climate change is transforming life distribution in the sea.

Bervoets, head of Bonaire's Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance, supports conservation across the region from managing MPAs to securing shark protection after a career in international marine work.

In partnership with the marine exploration nonprofit OceanX, University of Miami scientists using ROVs discovered the massive brine pools more than a mile deep.

Researchers are racing to complete digitization of ancient cave art in a submerged Mediterranean cavern as rising sea levels and plastic pollution threaten to scrub them from the annals of history.