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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...