Category: Climate

Just over a week ago, on January 29, California took another important step in its efforts to address ocean and coastal health in a time of rapid change. With the release of the 2018 update of its Safeguarding California...

‘Coral Reefs’ showcases the highs and lows of life in an aquatic metropolis. In its third episode, Blue Planet II tells two stories of coral reefs. The first story is one of undersea cities teeming with life and possibil...

Ocean Conservancy began 2017 in uncharted waters with the new Trump administration. Since then, we’ve learned that very little from previous administrations applies to how this one approaches the issues we care about—our...

This blog was written by Roger Di Silvestro, a field correspondent for Ocean Conservancy. Have you ever seen a cartoon or advertisement that showed penguins and polar bears cavorting together in the snow? On the flip sid...

There are some new champions for corals in the nation’s capital. Hawaii’s Senator Hirono and Representative Takai have proposed legislation supporting competitions that encourage innovation among scientists, engineers an...

Oysters – my all-time favorite seafood, and often my favorite food, period. I can be sitting in an oyster bar, miles from the ocean, and when I eat one I can practically feel sand between my toes and smell the salt in th...

Part of my job involves fielding worried emails and phone calls about alarming-sounding science news, especially when it relates to ocean acidification. Recently a study in Science made a big splash, generating headlines...

  By now, coastal communities are asking: “Who’ll be hit next by ocean acidification? And what can people do?” Until now, we haven’t known where exactly in the United States ocean acidification is most likely to aff...

This post is a collaboration between Sarah Cooley, Ph.D. (Ocean Conservancy) and Meredith White, Ph.D. (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences). As we dig deeper into how ocean acidification will affect our oceans, many s...

I wrote recently for the State Department’s Our Planet blog about the importance of the ocean as a natural resource. Here’s an excerpt: Despite the fact that our planet is 70 percent water, it’s easy to take...