How Will Climate Change Impact the Next Generation?
In Alaska, we are experiencing the dramatic and unpredictable effects of climate change more rapidly and more significantly than in most other places in the country. Almost daily, we hear about a new study or observation...
How Will Climate Change Impact the Next Generation?
Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of collaboration in conservation work. The Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) recently published it’s 2019 Annual Report, and as I reflected on ou...
Joining Forces With the United States to Tackle Ghost Gear
Investments in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the success of our blue economy go hand-in-hand. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced one of the most important pieces of l...
House Invests in NOAA and Our Blue Economy
I recently received a card from the canoeing camp I attended and worked at in my youth. The photo on the front showed two young men in a canoe, smiling broadly next to a large floe of sea ice, its smooth melting surfaces...
The Many Wonders of Arctic Sea Ice
This blog was written by Dr. David Shiffman, a marine conservation biologist and public science educator based in Washington, D.C. Renowned for his witty social media presence, he has written for the widely-read ocean sc...
Your Biggest Questions About Sharks, Answered
This blog was written by Jenna Schwerzmann. Originally from upstate New York, Jenna began her marine conservation career on Long Island after graduating from Stony Brook University with a B.S. in Marine Vertebrate Biolog...
What Lies on Land May Not Lie Beneath
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is a vast tract of federal public land in the U.S. Arctic, bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea to the north. More than ten times the size of Yellowstone Natio...
New Plan will Jeopardize the Arctic Coast
This was first published in The Hill. With coronavirus cases rising in many places around the United States and health officials predicting a second wave to come, there’s no doubt that personal protective equipment (PPE...
Plastics Epidemic
Whoa! We’ve received more than a thousand submissions to our 2020 Photo Contest, and I am speechless at the incredible photos we’re seeing. We’ve been on a mission to make sure that people everywhere can still be inspire...
Will You Help Us by Voting for Your Favorite Photos?
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of cephalopods. It’s hard not to be when the group includes one-of-a-kind species like the adorable bobtail squid, the deadly blue-ringed octopus and the mysterious vampire squid. Today...