10 Things You Can Do For Our Ocean
Today is a big day for our ocean. World Oceans Day comes around once every year, and we’re all for celebration. To commemorate this special day, we’re here to equip you with ten simple yet valuable steps you can take to...
10 Things You Can Do For Our Ocean
Sea turtles have a strong sense of place—when it’s time to nest, they return to the same beach where they hatched decades before. Many residents of the Gulf Coast share that same sense of place (my own family has lived i...
5 Things Sea Turtles Need to Survive
Nothing ruins a sweeping ocean vista like…trash. Not only are piles of plastic an eyesore, they’re seriously harmful to the countless animals who call the ocean home. This Earth Day, take a minute to see how you can decr...
5 Easy Ways to Keep Our Ocean Trash Free
By George H. Leonard, PhD and Nicholas J. Mallos MEM Over the course of the 30-year history of the International Coastal Cleanup, volunteers have removed over 200 million items from beaches and waterways around the world...
How Dangerous is Ocean Plastic? Insights From Global Experts on the Greatest Threat to Marine Wildlife
You have likely seen the pictures of albatross chicks chocking on plastics. These images are tough to look at and the death these birds suffer from ingesting plastics is gruesome and painful. Albatross consume a whole ra...
Plastics in Seabirds: A Pervasive and Growing Problem That Requires Global Action
Every year, hundreds of thousands of volunteers all around the world remove trash from their local beaches and shorelines for the International Coastal Cleanup. View some of the photos we collected from the 2014 Cleanup.
International Coastal Cleanup Day 2014
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is a little over a week away! As the world’s largest cleanup event for the ocean, the International Coastal Cleanup is a crucial part of the fight for trash free seas. Wh...
Three Reasons for the International Coastal Cleanup
As the Senior Director of Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas® Program, I’ve had the opportunity to meet people who care about the ocean and are making a difference for the communities that depend on it. However, I’m alw...
The Five Myths (and Truths) About Plastic Pollution in Our Ocean
Midway Atoll is truly “out there.” The closet population center is Honolulu, 1,200 miles to the southeast and a five-hour trip by plane. But despite its remoteness, Midway is not immune to the impacts of plastic debris....
“Midway” Film Answers Plastic Pollution Question “Why Care?”
Each year in September, citizen scientists around the world mobilize during the International Coastal Cleanup® to remove plastic trash and other debris from the world’s shorelines, waterways and underwater habitats. Tall...