With regards to staying motivated, I’ve heard that among the finest issues we are able to do is hold ourselves surrounded by fixed reminders of the issues that encourage us most. This will take the type of placing up photos of people that encourage us close to our workspace or on our fridge, or it […]

Final summer time, I wrote concerning the Trump administration’s misguided try to weaken the 2016 Arctic Drilling Rule, a federal regulation designed to guard the Arctic Ocean from the possibly catastrophic impacts of exploratory oil drilling. Sadly, the 2016 Arctic Drilling Rule—and all of its necessary protections and safeguards rule—remains to be below menace. As […]

Celebrating cetaceans on World Whale Day February 19, 2021 © Suzie Teer, NMFS Allow #14296 Share World Whale Day is developing on Sunday, February 21st, I’d like to present an enormous, grateful shout-out to the cetacean household (toothed and baleen whales, dolphins and porpoises)! Not solely are whales biologically fascinating creatures and key indicators of wholesome […]

For the previous a number of weeks, a purple tide has lurked off Florida’s southwest coast, sickening birds and triggering fish kills. The late-season purple tide shouldn’t be uncommon, however it’s outdoors of the time of 12 months purple tides usually seem. Late-blooming Karenia brevis, the organism liable for purple tides, might grow to be […]

Like the entire threats that face our ocean, ghost gear is an issue that doesn’t acknowledge borders. A bit of fishing gear that snags on a ship in Canada can journey a whole bunch of miles earlier than discovering its approach to a reef in Mexico, the place it could actually “ghost fish” for many […]

Beneath the floor, the oceans are getting louder. Will this have an effect on our marine animals? A bunch of researchers collect the details on how sound is altering our world. Duarte, C.M, Chapuis, L., Collin, S.P., Costa, D.P., Devassy, R.P., Eguiluz, V.M., Erbe, C., Gordon, T.A.C., Halpern, B.S., Harding, H.R., Havlik, M.N., Meekan, M., […]

Within the spring of 2020, Ocean Conservancy joined Closed Loop Companions’ Past the Bag Initiative, a daring new effort bringing collectively a few of the world’s greatest retailers to seek out different supplies, fashions and applied sciences to interchange the ever present, predominantly fossil fuel-based single-use plastic bag. Our job? To convey the ocean to […]

Biscayne Bay is a type of iconic Floridian waterways; it’s so iconic that it virtually defines your entire character and identification of Miami-Dade County. It’s the place individuals fish, swim, sail and simply merely chill out. It’s the aquatic heartbeat of the area, and it’s additionally the centerpiece of one of the crucial vital financial […]

Whereas the ocean is appreciated for a lot of causes akin to its pure magnificence, uncooked energy, therapeutic talents and the cool animals that decision it dwelling, we regularly overlook an extra spectacular ocean attribute. I’m speaking concerning the livelihoods and jobs it creates. I grew up close to Santa Monica, California and volunteered at […]