Published by Ocean Conservancy Maybe you slept past your alarm this morning, and your day is thrown off because now you’re running late to everything. Perhaps you haven’t gotten enough sleep so far this week because of a huge project at work or school, a kid kept you up late, or because thoughts about the tenacity […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy With the rising concern about the impact of climate change in the wake of the new IPCC report and the recent acquisition by Ørsted of Deepwater Wind, it’s clear that the offshore renewable energy industry is experiencing expanded interest. Offshore wind is increasingly becoming a competitive space with global firms now interested […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund The United States took an important step forward in the global fight to tackle trash in our oceans. Nearly 124,000 WWF activists from 49 states reached out to their member of Congress to support a bipartisan bill to take a stand on ocean plastic, and their impressive efforts paid off. […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Before I moved to Alaska to join Ocean Conservancy’s Arctic team, I envisioned a state with plentiful glaciers, bears, fish and mountains. After calling Alaska home for three years, I can say I’ve learned so much more about the people, the land, and of course, the oceans of our nations’ only Arctic […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy In May, Patty Chambers and I traveled to the remote Alaskan island of St. Paul to work with students from the school to clean up marine debris on a beach just outside of town. We both found the experience very rewarding and were very taken with the community. So, when I was […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined, and our beaches are home to marine mammals, birds and other wildlife. Unfortunately, Alaskan beaches also gather derelict fishing gear and other marine debris. Removing this debris can seem like a daunting and thankless task. Each of us, however, can […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Rusty Chinnis is a founder of and is Chairman Emeritus of Sarasota Bay Watch, a non-profit working to preserve and restore Sarasota Bay’s ecosystem through education and citizen participation. My experiences on the ocean have defined my life. They began almost seven decades ago with fishing trips and picnics with family on […]
This important bipartisan legislation reinvigorates existing programs and includes language recognizing the need to address the lack of waste management systems in developing countries. Among other provisions, the Save Our Seas Act: 1. Reauthorizes the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program 2. Supports studies on how solid waste enters the ocean, the effectiveness […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Regular readers of this blog know a modest, but important piece of legislation—the Save Our Seas (SOS) Act—has been slowly making its way through the legislative process. Well, I’m happy to share the great news that the SOS Act has been enacted into law! Congress recently cleared the final version of the […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a jaw-dropping report that laid bare the choices that we must make to ensure a livable and equitable future in the face of climate change. Make no mistake: climate change is here now—we are living with it as more powerful hurricanes, worsening […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund This move could topple national safeguards against pollution linked to cancer, lung disease and brain damage in babies. Read the full article at: https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/573998424/0/edf/blogs/feed~reasons-Trump%E2%80%99s-plan-to-gut-mercury-protections-is-a-dangerous-idea
Published by Ocean Conservancy Chef Tim McKee is the winner of the 2009 James Beard award for Best Chef in the Midwest and currently partners with sustainable seafood wholesaler The Fish Guys Inc., among other ventures. © Kevin Kramer, The Growler What does sustainable seafood mean? I learned nine years ago when I opened the restaurant Sea […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy To mark National Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate Hispanic and Latinx champions from the worlds of science, advocacy and government who are making a difference for our ocean and beyond. This month and all year round, Ocean Conservancy is thankful for the dedication, passion and commitment of leaders like: Carlos Del Castillo […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Wildlife rangers are one of the planet’s first and last lines of defense. As pressures on nature, grow, the survival of endangered animals like rhinos, elephants and tigers and their habitats depends in great part on these men and women. It’s never been an easy job. But now a newly-released […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy I think we can all agree that the ocean is home to some pretty amazing sea creatures. There are beluga whales—that can make facial expressions like humans. The mantis shrimp—that has a powerful punch equivalent to a .22-caliber bullet. But, in honor of World Octopus Day, we are focusing our attention to […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Our climate is changing around us faster than predicted. From more frequent and extreme storms to unprecedented heat waves, we’re feeling the impacts of human-caused global warming. But we still have time to change course. We can avoid more dire impacts of climate change by limiting warming to 2.7° F […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy If you thought ocean plastic pollution only affects the ocean once it enters the water…you thought wrong. A studied recently published in the scientific journal Biology Letters announced an alarming new finding: while microplastics themselves might not be ‘living,’ they’re now making their way out of the aquatic environments they’re polluting and […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, October 4, 2018 (ENS) – Heads of state and government have committed to intensify their efforts to tackle noncommunicable diseases including cancers, heart and lung diseases, stroke, and diabetes, and to promote mental health and well-being by reducing salt, sugar and transfat in foods. Read […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy Palm Beach County officials found traces of Red Tide on their beaches earlier this week, Miami-Dade and Broward Counties will conduct testing on their beaches, and the west coast of Florida is still awash in dead fish. Florida’s red tide crisis seems to be getting worse by the day, and it requires […]
Published by Ocean Conservancy If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you probably know that I work with an amazing group of driven, talented people who care deeply about the Arctic. In our line of work, we spend most of our time working on complex regulatory mechanisms to address a rapidly melting Arctic and the […]