Tackling Plastic Pollution in California
This blog was updated on October 7, 2021 to reflect the passage of all four bills. It’s not hard to fall in love with the ocean in California. You can drive for 600+ miles with endless ocean vistas on the Pacific Coast H...
Tackling Plastic Pollution in California
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
In just a few days on September 18, hundreds of thousands of concerned citizen scientists will turn out to clean up their local beach or waterway during the International Coastal Cleanup™ (ICC). Ocean Conservancy has com...
Where are the World’s Plastic Pollution Hotspots?
This weekend we will join volunteers around the world who are cleaning up their neighborhoods, beaches and local waterways. Doing a cleanup is always an eye-opening activity where you are up close and personal, seeing th...
We Need to Clean Up Our Recycling Crisis
For many of us, the story of trash ends when we put our trash out on the curb on pickup days. For Urban Ocean and the cities they partner with, it is just the beginning. Many cities around the world struggle to create sy...
Beyond Waste: The Results are In for Urban Ocean’s First Batch of City Plastics Studies
This blog was co-written by Susanna Goodell, Ocean Conservancy’s Communications intern for the Spring 2021 term and a member of the Dartmouth College Class of 2023, majoring in Environmental Studies. She is the Build Cha...
The Power of Cleanups
For billions of people across the world, seafood is a critical part of a healthy diet. While much of the fish that we eat still comes from wild caught “capture” fisheries, aquaculture—or fish farming—is becoming increasi...
Addressing Plastic Pollution From the Aquaculture Industry
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?
Today’s guest blog comes from Dr. Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto and Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy. COVID-19 kept me cooped up inside and out of the field for more than a year. I...
Why is Whole Ecosystem Research Important?
Traditions stitch the years together. People gather to enjoy beloved places and activities. In the past year, many of our traditions looked different. Many of us created new ways to connect and celebrate. We are approach...