“Science alone won’t save the ocean. We need access, opportunity, and a culture of lifting each other up.” Niru Dorrian Marine mammals sparked my passion for...
As 84% of global reefs face unprecedented bleaching, a new wave of innovations from probiotics to underwater symphonies offer hope for one of Earth’s most threatened...
As the forum segment of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 concluded in Abu Dhabi, I’m confident the delegates, like myself, left with a sense of...
November carries a strange weight in Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The autumn light slants differently here, catching on turquoise shallows where 450 distinct coral species pulse...
Numbers convey scarcity in ways maps cannot. In the 1970s, Egypt had about 1,400 cubic meters of renewable water per person each year. By the 1980s...
The smallest tortoise in the Northern Hemisphere exists now in whispers. Somewhere along the Mediterranean coast, in two locations kept deliberately secret from collectors and smugglers,...
Stand on the Red Sea coast at Safaga or Hamata and you’ll see them: stunted forests barely reaching four meters with weathered stems rising from mud...
When a hurricane tears through coastal communities, we see entire neighborhoods transformed in hours. The human toll demands our full attention, as it should. But beneath...
In the heart of the Mexican Caribbean, a team of passionate researchers and conservationists is working to protect two of the ocean’s most majestic and threatened...
Abu Dhabi lost three quarters of its coral and decided to grow it back. Its fishery climbed from collapse to 97 percent sustainability in six years....