Five Things You Didn’t Know About Red Tide
Imagine lounging on a beach chair, an umbrella perched perfectly above as you look out onto the beautiful ocean waves, each crash like music to your ears. You take a deep breath and feel the cool breeze fill your lungs....
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Red Tide
It’s almost that time of year again, when the ocean community converges in Washington, DC, for Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW). Next week, scientists, policymakers, advocates and business leaders will come together to lea...
Climate Change Takes Over Capitol Hill Ocean Week
When I took on the role as Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate and plastics initiative, I was determined to be more “out there” in 2023. But be careful what you wish for! I certainly didn’t expect to be sharing a pho...
TEDxPortland: The Intersection of Climate and Plastics
Many marine species rely on sound to navigate, find prey, avoid predators and communicate with each other. But these behaviors can be disrupted by human-caused noise from sources such as commercial shipping, seismic surv...
New Research on Noise Pollution
There’s been much debate swirling in the news of the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget process, including the budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This federal agency is criti...
Keep Up the Momentum for NOAA’s Budget
We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean. When carbon pollution enters the atmosphere, the extr...
How Does Carbon Pollution Impact Our Ocean
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has sounded the alarm on climate change since their first report in 1990. Their reports provide policymakers with the information they need, like those in the UN Frame...
What the IPCC Report Says About Our Ocean
Everywhere I’ve lived, I’ve had two options for where to put my trash: a blue bin for things like newspapers, beverage bottles and other recyclables, and a not-blue bin for everything else. That changed when my husband a...
Is Composting Good for the Ocean?
For several years, Ocean Conservancy has joined with partners to sound the call for the decarbonization of the shipping industry. Each year, the shipping industry delivers more than 10 billion tons of goods—amountin...
How the U.S. Can Cut Maritime Emissions
Do you ever wonder how scientists study the deep sea? Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 miles—much deeper than the recreational SCUBA limits of 120 feet. Even the de...