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New Zealand Creates 5 Marine Reserves Across 191 Square Miles
The country's first new marine protected areas in a decade will safeguard yellow-eyed penguins, albatrosses, sea lions and kelp forests off the South Island.
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Live White Abalone Spotted in Channel Islands for First Time in 5 Years
NOAA divers surveying California's Channel Islands found a single live white abalone — the first wild sighting in five years of one of the most endangered marine animals on Earth.
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Mangrove Forests Are Now Growing Worldwide for the First Time in 40 Years
A new Tulane-led study in Science finds mangrove area has rebounded since the early 2000s, with denser, healthier "closed-canopy" forests now expanding across the tropics.
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Papua New Guinea Just Protected an Ocean Area the Size of the UK
The new Bismarck and Solomon Seas reserves cover more than 77,000 square miles, instantly making PNG one of the world's biggest ocean protectors and shielding a stretch of the Coral Triangle.
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Greenland Study Reveals Seaweed's Hidden Role in Locking Away Carbon
Tracking 8,000 seaweed rafts off southwest Greenland, scientists mapped a natural conveyor belt that ferries macroalgae carbon to the deep ocean for at least a century.
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Humpback Whale Travels 15,100 km — A New Migration World Record
A single whale, photographed 22 years apart in Brazil and Australia, has set the longest documented humpback journey in history — a 15,100 km swim across two oceans.
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NOAA: Sea Turtles Are Rebounding Worldwide After Decades of Decline
A new NOAA assessment finds most sea turtle species are recovering, with green turtles showing an especially strong comeback — proof that long-running conservation laws are working.