Green Ports: Transforming the Maritime Industry
Ocean Conservancy is excited to announce the launch of a groundbreaking tool designed to streamline the tracking of funding opportunities under two important pieces of legislation passed by the Biden administration, the...
Green Ports: Transforming the Maritime Industry
This blog was co-written by Natalia De Prisco. Natalia is an 11th grade student in Doral, Florida, who participated in Plastic Free Cities during the Fall 2023 semester. She aspires to pursue a career in business, speaks...
Eliminating Plastics in South Florida
With more than 90% of global trade moving by ocean transport, maritime shipping is a major driver of the world economy. However, shipping has a serious pollution problem that threatens our climate, communities and the ma...
The Problems with Liquefied Natural Gas
We are officially within the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season here in the United States, and just a couple weeks ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its forecast for this year’s season....
Florida’s Daunting 2024 Hurricane Forecast
The 2023 Status of Stocks report illustrates the challenges of managing U.S. fisheries sustainably in an era where climate change is not down the road—it has already arrived. Overfishing remains a persistent issue, and r...
Navigating Troubled Waters: Breaking Down the 2023 Status of Stocks Report
A mollusk swims up to a sea cucumber. The mollusk looks around at the reef and says (because in jokes everyone talks) to the sea cucumber, “I think we’re in hot water.” I’m no clownfish, but I think Marlin may have told...
Four Impacts of Ocean Warming
“How’s the weather?” may have once been the most common conversation starter on the planet. Recently though, that simple question launches stories about one thing: Water. Friends, family and coworkers bring out their pho...
How the Water Cycle Impacts the Weather and Our Ocean
We know that the deep sea is full of some weird, wild and wonderful creatures. The deep sea’s crushing pressure, freezing cold temperatures and pitch-black darkness isn’t for everyone, but some animals manage to survive...
What We Know About the Bigfin Squid
Each year we discover new species on land and at sea. In 2023, more than 5,000 new deep-sea species were discovered in a large area between Hawaii and Mexico in the Pacific. Defying all biological norms, recently discove...
One of the World’s Rarest Whales
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a critical law that protects our country’s most imperiled species on land and at sea. This anniversary sends me back in time to re...