Published by Ocean Conservancy Written by Senator Cory Booker. Every 60 seconds, what amounts to roughly a garbage truck full of plastic makes its way into the ocean. That means that over the next year about 8 million tons of plastic will enter the ocean, creating a massive amount of marine pollution. It’s estimated that if […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Photo: Ocean Conservancy / Sarah Bobbe SEWARD, ALASKA – Small only in comparison to the rocky peaks surrounding the city, the cruise ship Crystal Serenity easily dwarfed every other structure in Seward, Alaska. On August 16, she slipped her moorings and started a month-long voyage through the Northwest Passage with over 1,700 […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy The Olympics is a special time when people from all over the world gather together to cheer on their country’s top athletes in an amazing array of sports. I can’t help but think of the similarities between the Olympics and Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup. They both span the globe in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund As it marks 100 years, we’re celebrating park service’s progress while preparing for a long road ahead. Yosemite National Park iStock In the summer of 1916, a raging fight for the soul of the nation had pitted rampant capitalism against responsible conservation across some of the last unspoiled […]
Published by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Specialized Training for Galapagos K9 Unit Officers En español Photo: UPMA Last week, officers of the Environmental Protection Unit of the Ecuadorian Police (UPMA) attended a course on environmental law, with a focus on Galapagos issues. The course has held at UPMA headquarters, in Quito. UPMA is the agency in […]
Published by the Department of the Interior U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper announce a proposed lease sale for 122,405 acres offshore North Carolina for commercial wind energy leasing. Read the full article at: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-announces-milestone-wind-energy-development-offshore-north-carolina
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. The country’s first offshore wind farm is set to open this fall – Deepwater Wind will build five turbines off the coast of Rhode Island. Experts say the project marks the dawn of […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Photo by Amy Goerwitz Chicago Tribune investigative reporters have put together an excellent series detailing the social and environmental damage being wrought by Illinois’ profusion of industrial hog farms. The series explains in stomach-churning detail everything from animal abuse to worker abuse to chokingly high levels of air […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Today is Alaska’s first Wild Salmon Day! Join us as we celebrate this iconic species with some unusual facts about salmon. 1. There are five species of wild salmon found in Alaska, King (Chinook) salmon, Red (sockeye) salmon, Silver (coho) salmon, chum (keta) salmon and pink salmon. 2. Wild salmon are anadromous, which […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CANBERRA, Australia, August 9, 2016 (ENS) – An acidifying ocean absorbing too much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could have a major impact on the staple diet of krill – with serious repercussions for the entire Antarctic ecosystem, scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division have found. Read the full […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Gulf Restoration Program staff Kara Lankford and Bethany Carl Kraft on Monterey Bay in California. Credit: Rachel Guillory Bethany Carl Kraft has been the eloquent voice and thought leader of Ocean Conservancy’s Gulf Restoration Program for the past five years. Her leadership has taken our team through milestones such as the implementation […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund If we collectively want to understand our planet’s mounting social and environmental challenges — and how we might solve them — consider Meeta’s story. Meeta is a young mother from India. Back-to-back pregnancies and heavy housework responsibilities took a toll on her health and wellbeing. Noting her declining health, a […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy When the heat index is well over 100 degrees, Washington, D.C. locals will do whatever it takes to stay cool. This summer, the National Building Museum is making it easier than ever to escape the heat—by bringing an icy environment straight to our backyard. Their new exhibit, Icebergs, is a massive installation […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund About 150 miles off Cape Cod, where the continental shelf drops into the pitch-black abyss of the deep Atlantic Ocean, a series of massive undersea canyons plunge thousands of feet, some deeper than the Grand Canyon. Just beyond these canyons, four underwater mountains (or “seamounts”)—the only ones in […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund One would think an agency caught in the grips of one of the worst droughts California has ever seen would handle and account for its water supply with extreme prudence. And yet, in attempting to avoid mandatory conservation measures, in a recent “stress test” Metropolitan Water District grossly […]
Published by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Sea Shepherd Launches Campaign to Save the Protected Totoaba Bass in Mexico Operation Angel De La Guarda kicks off in Gulf of California Sea Shepherd Conservation Society launches Operation Angel de la Guarda, a campaign to protect the imperiled totoaba bass in Mexico’s Gulf of California. The campaign, which begins […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The country’s role in combating global climate change is more important than ever. Guilin, China We got a timely alert on the growing dangers of climate change this week, when scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with their counterparts from 61 other nations to report from […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A thresher shark Klaus Stiefel/Flickr When Hawaiian fishermen pull up their anchors and go to work each morning, they don’t thread a worm onto a hook and cast it into the sea. Instead, they unfurl thousands of hooks attached to the same line. These longlines can stretch out […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The news on Zika virus in the United States isn’t good at all this week. The outbreak in Puerto Rico is raising huge concerns. There have been over 5,000 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus reported to the CDC in Puerto Rico, but it’s feared that number is an […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Proving that we’re all still learning about “the birds and the bees,” new research released late last week revealed that the popular class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids or “neonics” reduced live honey bee sperm counts by up to 39%. The study, which is titled “Neonicotinoid insecticides can […]