BLOG PlasticsUncategorized August 3, 2012

How Much Plastic Trash Clogs the Ocean? Exhibit Offers Insights

How do you explain the magnitude of the ocean trash problem, particularly to people in a landlocked country like Switzerland? Put a representative sampling right in front of them. Check out this video of a crew setting u...

BLOG Uncategorized August 3, 2012

How Much Plastic Trash Clogs the Ocean? Exhibit Offers Insights

Keep the wonders of the ocean at your fingertips with one of this week’s new smartphone wallpapers. Click on one of the images below and save it to your phone or click here for further downloading instructions and...

BLOG PlasticsScienceUncategorized August 1, 2012

Wallpaper Wednesday: Smartphone Wallpapers

I know, I know. We’ve been talking about sea turtles a lot on the blog these days. And it’s not just because they’re awesome and cute and amazing (although they are all of those things). As this video f...

BLOG Uncategorized July 26, 2012

TEDed Explains Why Sea Turtles Are Legitimate Miracles

Time for a new background? We’ve got some great new wallpapers for your smartphone this week! Click on one of the images below and save it to your phone or click here for further downloading instructions and other...

Wallpaper Wednesdays: Smartphone Wallpapers

In its quest to drill exploratory oil wells in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell made a lot of promises to government regulators about its ability to run a safe and clean drilling operation in...

BLOG Uncategorized July 21, 2012

Don’t Let Shell Drill in the Arctic Based on Shortcuts and Excuses

Want to have our ocean at your fingertips? Enjoy the beauty anytime, anywhere by downloading one of our smartphone wallpapers! Click on one of the images below and save it to your phone or click here for further download...

BLOG ClimateScience July 18, 2012

Wallpaper Wednesday: New Ocean Smartphone Backgrounds

As an ocean scientist I am personally familiar with the struggle between dread and hope. This duality is deeply entwined in all of our work here at Ocean Conservancy. Understanding the seriousness of what ails the ocean...

BLOG Uncategorized July 17, 2012

Of Fear, Hope, and the Future of Our Ocean

BBC Earth and the unmatched narration of David Attenborough present the strange life of a Kelp forest, including hand fish that walk on their fins and adorable baby squid. Quick kelp fact: Under ideal conditions, giant k...

BLOG Uncategorized July 13, 2012

You Can’t “Kelp” But Have a Good Friday with This Video

Few experiences compare to that of seeing nature’s largest creatures swimming, diving and emerging from the sea. First the tell-tale spouting, followed by discerning the massive shape below the water, perhaps a tail fluk...

BLOG Science July 12, 2012

Rare Blue Whales Abundant Off California Coast

Are you more afraid of sharks or toilets?  What about sand?  Or fireworks? Turns out, sharks are the least dangerous out of the bunch.  Even this kayaker in Cape Cod last weekend came away unscathed.  Of course, that did...