What Is E-Navigation and Why Is It Important in the Arctic?
Ocean Conservancy teamed up with the Marine Exchange of Alaska to produce a short report describing how advances in navigation and communications technologies can help enhance shipping safety and environmental protection...
What Is E-Navigation and Why Is It Important in the Arctic?
The Gulf of Mexico is using a new management approach for red snapper private recreational fishing. In 2018 and 2019, fishery managers from the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Cou...
What’s Going on With Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Management?
For people living in northern climates, the transition to the fall season marks significant annual events, from the end of summer vacations to the emergence of brilliant autumn colors as cooler temperatures arrive. In th...
7 Questions About the Arctic Sea Ice Minimum, Answered
“Oh, the places you’ll go.” This is not a reference I never thought I’d conjure while staring at dirty clothes in my laundry hamper. I recently came across a scientific paper from University of California, Santa Barbara...
Shedding New Light on Microfiber Pollution
Penned by Becca Robbins Gisclair, Nicholas J. Mallos, Michael LeVine and Henry P. Huntington, this blog is sourced from a featured column in the journal Environment on the threat plastic pollution poses in the Arctic Oce...
Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in the Arctic Ocean
Adjacent to the deepest part of the ocean (the Mariana Trench) lies a string of small emerald-hued isles amidst a vibrant blue sea. This island chain, known as the Mariana Islands archipelago, is home to the U.S. territo...
19-Year-Old Cleans Up Trash on Saipan Shores
Today we released the 2020 International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) report. Each year this is an opportunity to celebrate the work of our partners and volunteers. With these latest results, nearly 16.5 million volunteers have...
Food Wrappers Now #1 Item Found by the ICC
Ghost gear is a problem with a common misconception: many people believe it’s a term for fishing gear that’s been recklessly discarded into the sea. The truth is that fishers don’t want to lose the expensive equipment th...
From Policy to Practice: Addressing Ghost Gear
Almost a year ago, Ocean Conservancy released the results of the 2018 International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). We had reached a new milestone for the annual event: more than one million volunteers around the world coming out...
Our Ocean Still Needs Us
We’ve all heard of this mysterious, enormous shark: Otodus megalodon. But having been extinct for millions of years, how much do we really know about these massive, ancient sharks? The answer, in short, is not a lot. But...