Forage Fish: The Tiny Fish That Support Our Entire Ocean
California’s Fish & Game Commission is considering making big changes to better protect some of the ocean’s smallest fish. If you live in California, you can help us protect these vitally important fish. For the sake...
Forage Fish: The Tiny Fish That Support Our Entire Ocean
“What else can I do?” We’ve heard this question thousands of times from volunteers following the annual success of the International Coastal Cleanup. People get out to their local beach, river, or even in their neighborh...
Start your own Rippl™ Effect
Today Ocean Conservancy turns 40 years old. That’s quite the milestone when you think about how we got started. (View a slideshow of our history.) Founded in the midst of the nascent environmental movement in 1972, Ocean...
Celebrating 40 Years of Making the Ocean Matter
Did you know that while clean clothes make you look and feel better, they could actually have the opposite effect on the ocean? By changing your laundry habits even slightly, you may be able to save money, save water and...
Do Your Clean Clothes Make the Ocean Dirty?
5. Sustainably-made cloth napkins cost less then buying paper napkins over the course of five years. Given current prices, if you bought the cloth napkins brand new, five year’s worth of eco-friendly cloth napkins for a...
Five Reasons to Use Cloth Napkins over Paper
High on my bucket list: a swim with sharks. And if I’m going to be up-close-and-personal, my first pick is to be introduced to the world’s biggest fish, the whale shark. Nicknamed “dominoes,” thes...
Dreaming of Swimming with Sharks? Start with “the Domino”
Eight years ago, Debbie Salamone was attacked by a shark in the shallow waters of Florida’s Cape Canaveral National Seashore. The shark severed her Achilles tendon and led her to question her two-decade career as an envi...
Shark Attack Survivors Fight to Save Sharks
How much do you know about sharks? Test your knowledge with our short quiz: Which shark is the fastest? When it comes to speed, shortfin mako sharks are like the Roadrunner, clocked at more than 30 miles an hour in pursu...
What’s Your Shark IQ?
The height of the summer beach season means many things: vacations, sleeping in, getting a tan; but for some ocean-goers, one fear can wind up taking over… Sharks. Over the years sharks have been sensationalized as...
Shark Bites: How Dangerous Are They?
Did you know bowhead whales can boast some surprising statistics? their blubber is more than a foot thick, and their baleen—plates in the mouth that filter prey from water—can grow 15 feet long. But one of their most eye...