Keeping Trash Out of the Magic City
Haz clic aquí para español. Miami is the Magic City. There is so much that makes it magical, especially the wild ocean and water that is the city’s backyard. The town abuts Biscayne Bay, a natural wonder of marine life—a...
Keeping Trash Out of the Magic City
Another nine months, another Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). As you may remember, we weren’t overjoyed at the results last session, which settled on a prof...
IMO Fails Duty to Protect Climate and the Arctic
In April 2021, Florida was staring down an immediate environmental calamity. The Piney Point phosphogypsum stack just south of Tampa had failed and had begun to spill millions of gallons of toxic, nutrient-rich, possibly...
3 Lessons Learned from Florida’s Piney Point Disaster
It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about cruise ships, but those giant vessels generate a lot of wastewater. Much of that is greywater: liquid waste from things like showers, laundry faciliti...
Untreated Greywater is Gross—We Need to Do Better for Our Ocean
Good news! The 2016 Arctic Drilling Rule—an important federal regulation designed to protect the Arctic Ocean from the potentially catastrophic impacts of exploratory oil drilling—is no longer under threat. Let’s keep th...
A Victory for Important Arctic Safeguards
At the end of April, my wife and I went away for a couple of nights, a welcome change of scenery in the era of COVID-19. We stayed near the 22-mile-long Matanuska Glacier, in the Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska. In...
A Visit to Matanuska Glacier
For those of us at Ocean Conservancy, Earth Day was less of a day and more of a week-long event this year, and we couldn’t be happier with the outcomes. Ocean-based climate solutions were at the heart of the discussions...
Nations Make Waves on Ocean-Climate Action
Whether we know it or not, many of us rely on international shipping for the products we use every day. Shipping not only plays a big role in the economy—it plays a big role in ocean health. You’ve heard us talk before a...
How Much Do You Know About Shipping?
Earlier this month, Ocean Conservancy had the privilege of co-hosting a very special virtual event with our partner Dream In Green, a South Florida-based non-profit organization with a mission to empower individuals (esp...
Paths to Careers in Marine Conservation
At this point, we all know that climate change is hurting our ocean and you might have also heard from us by now that the ocean itself can provide opportunities to help fight against climate change. What might seem a lit...