What are Scrubbers?
Like the rest of Ocean Conservancy, I am working from home, tapping out these final lines from the modest comfort of the one table in my apartment. Even though we can’t meet face to face work with environmental leaders,...
What are Scrubbers?
It’s hard to believe that a decade has already gone by—it has been nearly 10 years since one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history—the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. The impacts of the blowout...
The Gulf and United States’ Coastlines Need Our Help
Last month, a subcommittee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) created draft regulation to ban ships from using or carrying heavy fuel oil (HFO) in the Arctic. For four years, Ocean Conservancy has worked ti...
Banning Heavy Fuel Oil in the Arctic
When people fly into Miami, they are taken aback by the city’s lush streetscape and seemingly continuous tree cover. Cities are usually sights of impermeable concrete—but Miami offers a refreshing marriage of metropolis...
How Fertilizers are Impacting Miami’s Waterways
The dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change means more commercial ships than ever before are traveling through the Bering Strait, a remote marine gateway located between the United States and Russia. At...
A Guide to Safer Shipping in the Bering Strait Region
In the area surrounding the Bering Strait, the winters of 2017-18 and 2018-19 were scary even by recent standards of rapid change. Sea ice was missing from the northern Bering Sea in mid-winter, bowhead whales stayed nor...
When Rapid Climate Change Gets Even Faster
When I think of polar bears and what makes them so unique, one of the most identifying features that come to mind is, of course, their iconic white fur. But what would you say if I told you that their fur isn’t really wh...
Why Do Polar Bears Have White Fur?
For Floridians, water is in our DNA. We’re surrounded on three sides by the Gulf, the Florida Straits and the Atlantic Ocean; lakes and rivers and springs and swamps and glades riddle the state with freshwater. The inter...
From Our Ocean to the Everglades
Fish are considered one of our ocean’s most important resources. In the United States alone more than 1.7 million jobs rely on commercial and recreational fisheries, and fishing generates more than $200 billion in revenu...
Your Top 10 Questions About Fish Answered
As a new month approaches, I began checking my calendar for the various meetings and calls scheduled in February, as one does, only to have February 2, 2020, create a huge light-bulb moment. The reason for this is that 0...