What You Need to Know About the Oil Spill in Huntington Beach, California
Oil began seeping into the ocean on Friday night. By Sunday, October 3, a full-blown crisis was underway in Huntington Beach, California, as over 125,000 gallons of crude began to wash up on shore. We are now seeing the...
What You Need to Know About the Oil Spill in Huntington Beach, California
There are a few ways a species can be removed from the endangered species list. Scientists can discover different information that changes their assessment of the species. Or, policies enacted to protect the species coul...
23 Species are Now Declared Extinct
This is a momentous week for Congress, if they want it to be. Several deadlines are looming for our federal representatives and, if they fail to take action, the consequences will be dire. People around the country will...
How to Prevent a Government Shutdown, Create Jobs and Protect Our Ocean
Here in Anchorage, Alaska, the leaves are changing color, frost is on the ground and there’s new snow covering the mountain slopes. Fall has arrived, and winter won’t be too far behind. In the Arctic Ocean, the summer se...
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches its 2021 Minimum
Atxidax is the Aleut word for Pacific cod, and it translates to “the fish that stops.” Alaska Native people have stewarded and harvested Pacific cod in Alaskan waters for over 4500 years, and Pacific cod continues to be...
The Heat is On: Climate-Readiness in Fisheries
When we think of our ocean’s biggest catastrophes, we tend to focus on specific events. I remember watching in horror as oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Deepwater Horizon, just two decades after the catas...
Plastic Pollution is like a Slow-Motion Oil Spill
We are in the midst of an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of the shipping industry. Over the next few months, several international and national discussions on how to address the causes and im...
New Report Highlights Benefits of Zero-Carbon Ports
Last month, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy left Seward, Alaska to start an Arctic voyage through the famed Northwest Passage, a sea route that winds among islands north of mainland Canada and connects the Pacific...
Arctic Voyage Highlights Less Sea Ice Due to a Warming Climate
In just a few days on September 18, hundreds of thousands of concerned citizen scientists will turn out to clean up their local beach or waterway during the International Coastal Cleanup™ (ICC). Ocean Conservancy has com...
Where are the World’s Plastic Pollution Hotspots?
This weekend we will join volunteers around the world who are cleaning up their neighborhoods, beaches and local waterways. Doing a cleanup is always an eye-opening activity where you are up close and personal, seeing th...