Reflecting on Global Ghost Gear Initiative’s Conservation Wins in 2020
Ghost gear is a problem that never stops: every minute of every day, one metric ton of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear enters our ocean. And once it’s there, it wreaks havoc; harming valuable fish populations,...
Reflecting on Global Ghost Gear Initiative’s Conservation Wins in 2020
Buddy Custard is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alaska Chadux̂ Network (ACN). He possesses extensive knowledge and expertise working maritime operations from both the public and private sectors. Buddy s...
Building Partnerships to Protect Arctic Marine Wildlife From an Oil Spill
UPDATE 04/08/2021: The immediate human threat may have passed, but the environmental threat is just rearing its head. We may no longer be looking at a catastrophic event at Piney Point, where just days ago we were facing...
Florida Water Emergency: The Piney Point Phosphogypsum Crisis Unfolding Before Our Eyes
It’s finally springtime for us up in the northern hemisphere and the animal kingdom seems to be waking up after a looong winter’s nap, especially those chirping birds outside my bedroom window! The earth is softeni...
What Are the Smallest Animals in the Ocean?
It’s April Fools Day and while everyone is unleashing their carefully planned pranks, we thought we should remind you that Mother Nature is the greatest prankster of them all. The ocean is full of creatures that se...
10 Ocean Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction
The 8th edition of the Economist Group’s World Ocean Summit took place March 1 – 5, 2021 and hosted representatives of the major firms leading the international shipping industry. The voices of companies from diffe...
Shipping Companies Need to Reduce Emissions
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unfathomable toll on people around the world. There have been nearly 120 million coronavirus cases and more than 2.6 million deaths worldwide. We all know friends, colleagues, family me...
Assessing PPE Pollution’s Impact on the Ocean
We know it’s now an all-hands-on-deck moment for climate. So, it’s a good thing we’re seeing climate action picking up steam here in the United States and around the world because halting climate change is like stopping...
Turning Down the Sun to Cool the Earth?
You read the title. Your eyes got bigger. Could seadragons really exist? Well, folks, the answer may shock you: yes. It’s time for you to meet the leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques)! Although they may not be quite as rem...
7 Spectacular Facts About Seadragons
Ocean Conservancy produced the Ocean to the Everglades film series with the hope that it could educate about the most urgent issues facing South Florida’s ocean and coasts, in addition to sharing the wonder of this uniqu...