Coastal Restoration Helps the Ocean Help Us
The ocean has absorbed nearly 33% of all greenhouse gas emissions and around 90% of the excess heat produced through climate change. It may seem like a good thing all around that the ocean is protecting us in this way, b...
Coastal Restoration Helps the Ocean Help Us
Oil began seeping into the ocean on Friday night. By Sunday, October 3, a full-blown crisis was underway in Huntington Beach, California, as over 125,000 gallons of crude began to wash up on shore. We are now seeing the...
What You Need to Know About the Oil Spill in Huntington Beach, California
Atxidax is the Aleut word for Pacific cod, and it translates to “the fish that stops.” Alaska Native people have stewarded and harvested Pacific cod in Alaskan waters for over 4500 years, and Pacific cod continues to be...
The Heat is On: Climate-Readiness in Fisheries
When we think of our ocean’s biggest catastrophes, we tend to focus on specific events. I remember watching in horror as oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Deepwater Horizon, just two decades after the catas...
Plastic Pollution is like a Slow-Motion Oil Spill
Last month, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy left Seward, Alaska to start an Arctic voyage through the famed Northwest Passage, a sea route that winds among islands north of mainland Canada and connects the Pacific...
Arctic Voyage Highlights Less Sea Ice Due to a Warming Climate
Like many Americans, my family hoped for some normalcy after our COVID vaccinations. For us, that meant finally traveling to Alaska and taking in a small slice of the remarkable state. Yet in between the seeing humpback...
Witnessing Climate Change Effects in Alaska
There certainly isn’t a shortage of grim news lately. And, the recent report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is no exception. The IPCC tells us that this is the decade when we must ta...
What Could We Do with $120 Billion to Protect the Ocean and Fight Climate Change?
Written by Maya Canonizado, Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a recent graduate from University of Southern California with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a minor in Manage...
How to Talk About Our Changing Climate
On the shores of the Salish Sea where land and ocean meet, the animals and plants that live between the constant motion of the high and low tides are masters of life on the edge. Many are small but mighty, having adapted...
Heatwave in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Maya Canonizado, Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a recent graduate from University of Southern California with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a minor in Manage...