Skip the Straw to Help Save Marine Animals
You wouldn’t dispose of your plastic straw by throwing it into someone’s front yard, and yet volunteers have picked up more than 9 million straws and stirrers from beaches and waterways over the 30+ year history of the I...
Skip the Straw to Help Save Marine Animals
This blog was written by Steph Borrelle, a Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Biology and Chelsea Rochman, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy. Plastic p...
No Silver Bullet Solution to Plastic Pollution
Plastic bags have become the poster child of the ocean plastic crisis. The promotional poster for the 2016 documentary A Plastic Ocean featured a beluga whale swimming with a plastic bag. When National Geographic launche...
Even in the World’s Cleanest City, Pro Surfers Can See Microplastics are an Insidious Problem
Kevin Anderson is a professional tennis player from South Africa and currently ranked Number 5 in the world on the ATP Tour. A winner of six ATP titles, Anderson reached the 2017 US Open final, the 2018 Wimbledon final a...
From My Beach Chair to the O2 Arena in London
Straws have become the poster child single-use item—and their days are numbered. This January, Washington D.C. became the second city in the United States to ban plastic straws. In 2014, Ocean Conservancy launched its Sk...
Washington D.C. Bans the Plastic Straw
The European Union made headlines in 2018 when it proposed to ban certain single-use plastic items by 2021. This spring, individual member states are expected to vote on the legislation and begin devising just how this a...
EU Ambassador Shares on Plastics, Cleanups and Loving the Sea
This blog was written by Chelsea Rochman, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy. Synthetic microfibers are just one of many types of microplastic pollution; howev...
What Does Your Washing Machine Have to do with Microfibers?
Last month Collins Dictionary announced “single-use” as the 2018 Word of the Year. This came as no surprise to us at Ocean Conservancy. Our Trash Free Seas® program has been busier than ever—growing our team and the work...
Looking Back on 2018’s Fight for Trash Free Seas®
Found in both tropical and temperate waters all across the globe, seahorses are arguably one of the most distinctive and charismatic marine wildlife species in existence. Ranging in length from more than a foot to under...
7 Wild Facts You May Not Know About Seahorses
As Thanksgiving 2018 draws near, we can’t help but reflect on the incredible year we’ve had at Ocean Conservancy. Despite the ever-changing political climate, we continue to work successfully towards solutions that help...