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 editor Rob Hutchins and social media manager Ben Hartley, 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

Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Join Oceanographic Magazine's News lead, Rob Hutchings, as he plunges into the depths of this week's most significant ocean-related stories. From groundbreaking scientific discoveries to urgent environmental concerns, Hutchings provides in-depth analysis and expert commentary on the issues that matter most to our blue planet.

Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
The non-profit research group OCEARCH managed to tag the largest ever recorded great white shark in the Atlantic off the Florida-Georgia coast in mid-January. The researchers now hope that the data provided by the tag will help advance our knowledge of the species.

Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
In partnership with the Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Program and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Walt Disney World Florida is to move from long-term manatee rehabilitation to short-term critical care in a move that will ease pressures on local facilities.

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.