What is Our Ocean’s Role in the Transition to Clean Energy?
Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean...
What is Our Ocean’s Role in the Transition to Clean Energy?
When thinking about the world, it is easy to forget that the majority of our planet consists of our ocean. As 71% of Earth, it is fair to assume that there is more to explore about all depths of the ocean than we can eve...
What’s an ROV?
This blog was written by Kit Cunningham, a graduate student at University of Alaska Fairbanks and an employee for Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She is from and lives in Juneau, and is passionate about sustainabilit...
Effects of Marine Debris on Remote Islands
South Greenland is a magical place. A hot spring sits on an open hillside above an iceberg-filled fjord. Inuit sheep farmers have restored an agricultural practice first introduced by Erik the Red and other Norse settler...
South Greenland at a Crossroads
As 2022 comes to a close, I am reflecting on everything we’ve accomplished together on behalf of our ocean throughout the last 12 months. It’s been an incredibly busy year here at Ocean Conservancy, to say the least. I a...
Ocean Victories of 2022
If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve already heard of flounder. Maybe you’ve even eaten it or seen it in the wild! But how much do you really know about this flatfish? Read on to learn fun facts about flound...
Fast Facts About Flounder
Walking along a breezy Florida beach is a wonderful feeling, the soft sand and gentle ocean waves enjoyed by locals and tourists alike. Unfortunately, trash on our beaches is causing major threats to this idyllic image....
Cigarette Butts are a Plague On Our Beaches
In November, countries around the globe came together at the 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to negotiate a collective path forward towards solutions to the climate crisis facing...
Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27
We didn’t leave the Stone Age because we ran out of stones. To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate chang...
Ocean Solutions for Clean Energy
The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. That comes at a cost. The ocean i...