Refresh Your Desktop With These Ocean-Inspired Wallpapers
As we prepare to dive into a brand-new year, it’s natural to want to revive and refresh various parts of our lives. Whether that means organizing your household, purging your wardrobe or starting a new fitness regime, th...
Refresh Your Desktop With These Ocean-Inspired Wallpapers
Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our lives this year, most heartbreakingly for the millions who have lost a family member, friend or loved one. For many of us, daily routines have shifted dramatically,...
How Have U.S. Fisheries Been Impacted by COVID-19?
Officially deemed one of the most intense tropical storms in the southern hemisphere on record, Category 5 Cyclone Yasa ripped through the northern region of Fiji last Thursday, bringing powerful wind speeds that reached...
Cyclone Yasa’s Destruction In Fiji and What It Means
This blog was written by Elise Georgeff. Elise is an Associate Researcher with the Marine Team at the International Council on Clean Transportation. She supports research on zero-emission vessel alternatives and addressi...
A Chance to Stop “Biden” Our Time on Hydrogen for Shipping
As for many ocean advocates around the world, Sir David Attenborough is one of my childhood heroes and a continued source of inspiration for my work. In the most recent Blue Planet documentary, A Life on Our Planet, his...
If We Care for Our Ocean, Our Ocean Will Care for Us
In a year fraught with bad news, we are sorry to report more disappointing news from November’s International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environmental Protection Committee Meeting (MEPC). The IMO is responsible...
IMO Fails to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Heavy Fuel Oil in Arctic Waters
At the bottom of our ocean, more than 7,000 feet below the water, there are mid-ocean ridges—underwater mountains caused when hot lava rises beneath the seafloor and tectonic plates split apart. New seafloor is formed an...
The Curious Yeti Crab
This blog was written by Arielle Earn and Kennedy Bucci. Arielle is an undergraduate student double majoring in Biodiversity & Conservation Biology and Political Science. Previously, she worked as an intern for the C...
The Great Lakes Have a Great Big Plastics Problem
The holidays look different this year, but at least one thing has remained the same: the arrival of the ubiquitous “ugly holiday sweater.” There’s nothing that cheers up a Zoom holiday party than watching your friends, c...
Tis the SEAson for Ugly Sweaters
The following guest blog was authored by the Jambeck Research Group at the University of Georgia, including Dr. Jenna Jambeck (Lead, Center for Circular Materials Management in the New Materials Institute), Amy Brooks (N...