6 Ocean Animals You Can Help Save on Giving Tuesday
The first Tuesday after Thanksgiving each year is a special day known as Giving Tuesday. This year, it’s fast approaching! Giving Tuesday is both symbolic and significant, as people all over the world take time ou...
6 Ocean Animals You Can Help Save on Giving Tuesday
Ocean Conservancy has a new partner in conservation: Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. This year, Norwegian joined our Trash Free Seas Alliance®, a partnership our organization leads with businesses and organizations t...
Our Trip to Nassau with Guy Harvey and Norwegian Cruise Line
If we’re being honest, the term “waste management” doesn’t exactly sizzle. Those four clunky syllables conjure images of foul-smelling dump trucks, mountainous landfills and overstuffed curbside bins—things that most peo...
The People and Places Behind “Waste Management Solutions”
Each day, hundreds of thousands of the most deadly items of marine debris indiscriminately haunt our global ocean. Lost or abandoned fishing gear, better known as “ghost gear,” includes nets, long lines, fish traps, lobs...
Taking Aim at the Ghosts in Our Ocean
We LOVE Halloween here at Ocean Conservancy. In fact, we never miss an opportunity to suit up in costumes. But one thing that gives us pause every October is the sheer amount of waste—most of it plastic—generated by Hall...
For a Spooky Halloween, Tame the Trash
Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined, and our beaches are home to marine mammals, birds and other wildlife. Unfortunately, Alaskan beaches also gather derelict fishing gear and other mari...
Ocean Optimism as Youth in Alaska Tackle Marine Debris
Regular readers of this blog know a modest, but important piece of legislation—the Save Our Seas (SOS) Act—has been slowly making its way through the legislative process. Well, I’m happy to share the great news that the...
Save Our Seas Act Signed into Law
If you thought ocean plastic pollution only affects the ocean once it enters the water…you thought wrong. A studied recently published in the scientific journal Biology Letters announced an alarming new finding: wh...
Microplastics and Mosquitos: What do they have in common?
We depend on our ocean for the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. But beyond these vital resources, there exists a multitude of other reasons why we love the water, from the creatures who call it hom...
Marine Debris Resources and Lessons for Teachers
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room” – the Dalai Lama Among the countless inspirations with which the Dalai Lama has enriched the world, this quote lives on my d...