The Ocean News Podcast
The Ocean News Podcast – Your Essential Ocean News Podcast 🌊💙 Stay informed with The Ocean News Podcast, the go-to ocean news podcast from Oceanographic Magazine, the world’s leading publication on marine conservation, ocean exploration, and underwater adventure. Hosted by news editor Rob Hutchins, this daily ocean news update delivers the most important stories on marine life, climate change, sustainability, and global ocean policy—all in a quick, weekday format. Follow along now for your essential ocean briefing every weekday ☕️🌊
Episodes

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Following a ten-year project exploring Costa Rica's methane seeps, researchers have compiled a collection of specimens, photographs, and DNA sequences enabling them to identify 488 distinct species - the highest biodiversity count ever recorded in a single seep or vent region.

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Scientists conducting routine studies at Union Glacier and Schanz Glacier as well as the South Pole have now confirmed that microplastics down to the size of 11 micrometres - about the size of a red blood cell - have been found in the snow of Antarctica.

Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up to work on a pioneering project to monitor krill from space.

Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Covering an area three times the size of Sweden - Seabed 2030, has just completed their most challenging accomplishment yet...mapping the Arctic Ocean.