An Update on the Amazing Albatross
Albatrosses (also known as “gooney birds”) are some of the most majestic and awe-inspiring seabirds inhabiting planet earth. Of the roughly two dozen species of the albatross family, the wandering albatross is the larges...
An Update on the Amazing Albatross
Ghost gear is a problem that never stops: every minute of every day, one metric ton of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear enters our ocean. And once it’s there, it wreaks havoc; harming valuable fish populations,...
Reflecting on Global Ghost Gear Initiative’s Conservation Wins in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unfathomable toll on people around the world. There have been nearly 120 million coronavirus cases and more than 2.6 million deaths worldwide. We all know friends, colleagues, family me...
Assessing PPE Pollution’s Impact on the Ocean
This blog was written by Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, co-founder of the University of Toronto Trash Team and Scientific Advisor to the Ocean Conservancy. Plastic pollution in freshwa...
The Collective Power of Trash Traps
There is a spot on the Pacific Coast Highway between Newport Beach and Laguna Beach that signifies home for Arianna Criscione. Throughout her youth, those beaches saw her playing football, volleyball, any sport, with her...
Paris Saint-Germain Féminine Goalkeeper, Arianna Criscione, Joins Team Ocean
When it comes to the Arctic, there are some facts about plastic pollution that may surprise you. Did you know that: Arctic Ocean surface waters contain the most plastics of any ocean basin. 79% of northern fulmar seabird...
5 Not-So-Fun Facts About Plastics in the Arctic
Pacific razor clams are bivalve mollusks that live in sandy beach environments stretching from Alaska to California. In the Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon, an adult razor clam can live up to about six...
Meet the Pacific Razor Clam
Like all of the threats that face our ocean, ghost gear is a problem that does not recognize borders. A piece of fishing gear that snags on a ship in Canada can travel hundreds of miles before finding its way to a reef i...
How Can Governments and Economies Prevent Ghost Gear?
In the spring of 2020, Ocean Conservancy joined Closed Loop Partners’ Beyond the Bag Initiative, a bold new effort bringing together some of the world’s biggest retailers to find alternative materials, models and technol...
Is It Possible to Forever Rid the World of Single-Use Plastic Bags?
At Ocean Conservancy, we are always guided by the latest and best science in our efforts to combat marine plastic pollution. Recent research affirms that we need a suite of solutions to reduce the amount of tra...