Tenerife’s Whale Sanctuary and Why Teno-Rasca Matters

Europe’s first Whale Heritage Site hosts 28 cetacean species year-round, but wastewater failures, coastal development, and a contested port project now threaten the Atlantic’s most protected marine corridor. [Read more]

A Nature Traveller’s Guide to Tenerife, Seven Days Deep

Beyond the resort strip: ancient laurel forests, volcanic calderas, cave villages, and dragon trees across a seven-day itinerary through one of Europe’s most ecologically varied islands. [Read more]

Is the Water Safe? Tenerife Beach Quality in 2026

EU legal action, criminal charges, and an 81 million euro cleanup plan follow years of wastewater failures across the island. A practical guide to where swimming is safe and where caution is warranted. [Read more]

What Tenerife’s Fish Are Telling Us About Ocean Health

Four hundred fish species, resident pilot whales, and migrating bluefin tuna share waters where reef habitats and seagrass meadows are declining. The signals from the sea are mixed, and worth reading closely. [Read more]

Tenerife: Into the Habitat of Pilot Whales, Seen Up Close

Resident pilot whale pods thrive year-round in Tenerife’s deep underwater canyons, their matriarchal societies holding knowledge passed across generations. A reflection on coexistence, awareness, and what the sea asks of us. [Read more]

Small Islands and the Currents of Change in the Caribbean

From a childhood watching Trinidad’s shoreline transform to creating Mertrina the mermaid, Katrina Khan-Roberts explores how storytelling and imagination can reconnect island communities with the sea. [Read more]

How Ghana Is Training the Next Generation of Coral Guards

In Accra, two conservationists founded Coral Reefstoration Ghana and launched The Dive Lab, West Africa’s first diving and underwater media bootcamp for marine biology students. [Read more]

Carbon and Nutrient Cycles Overlooked in Marine CDR Plans

A URI study reveals that carbon and phosphorus cycle through the ocean on different timescales, creating a “productivity hangover” that may cause marine carbon removal strategies to overestimate their long-term impact. [Read more]

Celebrating World Glaciers and Water Days Through Art

UNESCO launched the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences in Paris, while five side events across the U.S. connected glacier research, maritime heritage, and artistic expression at museums from Maryland to New York. [Read more]

Antarctica’s Hidden Carbon Sink and the Science of Blue

Polar marine ecologist Dr. Narissa Bax explains how phytoplankton and deep-sea organisms in the Southern Ocean are reshaping the climate conversation around Antarctic blue carbon. [Read more]

The Shadow Fleet: From Environmental Threat to Flashpoint

Over 340 aging tankers now operate outside international safety standards, as military seizures, naval escorts, and flag-switching transform a maritime environmental crisis into a contest between world powers. [Read more]

Seaworthy Collective Launches Its Seventh Startup Cohort

Seven new BlueTech startups join the NOAA-backed Continuum program, building AI and data-driven solutions for ocean mapping, water quality monitoring, fisheries health, and the growing blue economy. [Read more]