BLOG ArcticClimateScienceUncategorized September 21, 2020

7 Questions About the Arctic Sea Ice Minimum, Answered

For people living in northern climates, the transition to the fall season marks significant annual events, from the end of summer vacations to the emergence of brilliant autumn colors as cooler temperatures arrive. In th...

7 Questions About the Arctic Sea Ice Minimum, Answered

Penned by Becca Robbins Gisclair, Nicholas J. Mallos, Michael LeVine and Henry P. Huntington, this blog is sourced from a featured column in the journal Environment on the threat plastic pollution poses in the Arctic Oce...

BLOG FloridaUncategorized September 15, 2020

Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in the Arctic Ocean

This blog was written by Dave Doebler, the co-founder, along with his partner Dara Schoenwald, of VolunteerCleanup.org, a citizen-led environmental action group that has removed tons of marine debris from South Florida w...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized September 11, 2020

Florida’s Water Quality Crisis

If ever there was a place you’d think would be off-limits for a mine, it is Bristol Bay. Home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run, this land of wild rivers and abundant salmon runs supports a thriving commercial fi...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized September 9, 2020

Tapping the Brakes on Pebble Mine

This blog was written by Austin Ahmasuk, an Inupiaq from Nome, Alaska. He is a lifelong hunter, trapper and mariner, and serves his people as a tribal and marine advocate at Kawerak, a community-based organization in Nom...

BLOG FisheriesFloridaUncategorized September 3, 2020

An Influx of Foreign Trash

On Thursday, July 23, Ocean Conservancy held its first-ever virtual fundraiser, Cooking for the Ocean. The delicious and engaging cooking experience hosted about 150 attendees and raised more than $35,000 for Ocean Conse...

BLOG FloridaScience August 25, 2020

Cooking for Our Ocean

This blog was written by Sophie McCoy, a marine scientist who studies ecological responses to pollution and climate. Sophie is a Lang Early Career Fellow of the Phycological Society of America and a Steering Committee Me...

BLOG ArcticFloridaPolicyScience August 21, 2020

How Will COVID-19 Affect Marine Science?

On July 25, the MV Wakashio was grounded on a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius. Since then, the ship has released 1,000 tons of fuel into the sea, where it has fouled the region’s biologically rich waters and coastl...

BLOG FloridaScience August 20, 2020

What’s Next for the Mauritius Oil Spill?

Ocean Conservancy has partnered with the City of Miami, Florida through the Shores Forward initiative to protect ocean and coastal habitats, species and communities. Partnering with a municipality as large and complex as...

BLOG FloridaScience August 19, 2020

Working with Miami’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a (mangrove) tree. As a kid growing up on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida, the paramount importance of red, black and white mangroves and buttonwoods was no...