BLOG ArcticUncategorized April 5, 2021

Building Partnerships to Protect Arctic Marine Wildlife From an Oil Spill

Buddy Custard is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alaska Chadux̂ Network (ACN). He possesses extensive knowledge and expertise working maritime operations from both the public and private sectors. Buddy s...

BLOG FloridaUncategorized April 5, 2021

Building Partnerships to Protect Arctic Marine Wildlife From an Oil Spill

UPDATE 04/08/2021: The immediate human threat may have passed, but the environmental threat is just rearing its head. We may no longer be looking at a catastrophic event at Piney Point, where just days ago we were facing...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized April 4, 2021

Florida Water Emergency: The Piney Point Phosphogypsum Crisis Unfolding Before Our Eyes

The 8th edition of the Economist Group’s World Ocean Summit took place March 1 – 5, 2021 and hosted representatives of the major firms leading the international shipping industry. The voices of companies from diffe...

BLOG FloridaUncategorized March 30, 2021

Shipping Companies Need to Reduce Emissions

Ocean Conservancy produced the Ocean to the Everglades film series with the hope that it could educate about the most urgent issues facing South Florida’s ocean and coasts, in addition to sharing the wonder of this uniqu...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized March 25, 2021

Bringing the Florida Everglades to Your Classroom

Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran aground, spilling roughly 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. On April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, takin...

BLOG FisheriesUncategorized March 23, 2021

Interior Launches Comprehensive Review of Federal Oil and Gas Program

As the importance of environmental sustainability becomes more understood and accepted, many people are beginning to look more critically at their own daily choices—whether it’s skipping single-use plastics, reducing per...

BLOG ArcticPlasticsPolicyScience March 23, 2021

Can It Be Sustainable to Eat Fish?

When it comes to the Arctic, there are some facts about plastic pollution that may surprise you. Did you know that: Arctic Ocean surface waters contain the most plastics of any ocean basin. 79% of northern fulmar seabird...

BLOG ArcticPolicyScience March 2, 2021

5 Not-So-Fun Facts About Plastics in the Arctic

Last summer, I wrote about the Trump administration’s misguided attempt to weaken the 2016 Arctic Drilling Rule, a federal regulation designed to protect the Arctic Ocean from the potentially catastrophic impacts of expl...

BLOG FloridaUncategorized February 22, 2021

Arctic Drilling Protections Still in Danger

For the past several weeks, a red tide has lurked off Florida’s southwest coast, sickening birds and triggering fish kills. The late-season red tide is not unusual, but it is outside of the time of year red tides typical...

BLOG FloridaPolicyScience February 18, 2021

Building a Resilient Florida to Blunt Climate Change

Biscayne Bay is one of those iconic Floridian waterways; it’s so iconic that it practically defines the entire character and identity of Miami-Dade County. It’s where people fish, swim, sail and just simply relax. It’s t...