5 Reasons to Protect the Bering Strait
The Bering Strait is worth fighting for. Located between Alaska and Russia, the Bering Strait is the only marine gateway between the icy Arctic and the Pacific Ocean. At its narrowest point, the strait is only 55 miles w...
5 Reasons to Protect the Bering Strait
Winter is officially here! Much of the Arctic will not see any sunlight for the beginning of the winter season, especially today. The winter solstice is when the sunlight is the furthest away from the Arctic region. This...
Four Arctic Animals to Appreciate this Winter
The start of November can only mean one thing — it’s Polar Bear Week! Up north in Churchill, Manitoba, polar bears are undertaking their annual migration to Hudson Bay, where sea ice is reforming after summer melts. Afte...
Four Things You Should Know About Polar Bears
Ocean Conservancy will be publishing a blog series exploring the wonder of the Bering Strait and highlighting threats and solutions to this region. The Bering Strait—located between Alaska’s Seward Peninsula and Russia’s...
One of the Biggest Arctic Migrations You’ve Never Heard of
Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. In the days that followed, the tanker spilled approximately 11 million gallons of oil into the sound....
Four Reasons Why an Arctic Oil Spill Could be Catastrophic
On March 24, 1989, a few hours after the Exxon Valdez spill began, Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper and I boarded the tanker. At the time I was serving as Alaska’s commissioner of environmental conservation. We flew on a single-...
Exxon Valdez Oil Disaster 25 Years Later
Today Ocean Conservancy turns 40 years old. That’s quite the milestone when you think about how we got started. (View a slideshow of our history.) Founded in the midst of the nascent environmental movement in 1972, Ocean...
Celebrating 40 Years of Making the Ocean Matter
Did you know bowhead whales can boast some surprising statistics? their blubber is more than a foot thick, and their baleen—plates in the mouth that filter prey from water—can grow 15 feet long. But one of their most eye...
Amazing Facts about Bowhead Whales and How You Can Help Them
In its quest to drill exploratory oil wells in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell made a lot of promises to government regulators about its ability to run a safe and clean drilling operation in...
Don’t Let Shell Drill in the Arctic Based on Shortcuts and Excuses
Pearls of Wisdom is our weekly quiz game. We give you two truths and one lie about our favorite ocean wonders. Your job is to guess the lie. Good luck! We’ll post the answer on Sunday. [polldaddy poll=6242658]