BLOG Uncategorized October 29, 2019

5 Famous Movie Monsters Inspired by Marine Animals

The ocean is a mysterious place, home to strange and wonderful critters that seem out of this world. For proof, look no further than the jaw-extending goblin shark, the luminous deep-sea angler fish or the ghostly chimae...

BLOG FloridaPolicyScience October 29, 2019

5 Famous Movie Monsters Inspired by Marine Animals

Over the past few years, Floridians have become unpleasantly familiar with repeated noxious harmful blue-green algal blooms that have plagued rivers and estuaries, killing fish and shellfish, fouling boats and underminin...

BLOG PlasticsUncategorized October 25, 2019

Hold the Guacamole: Florida Making Important Steps in Combating Harmful Algal Blooms

This blog was written by Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, co-founder of the University of Toronto Trash Team and Scientific Advisor to the Ocean Conservancy; and Susan Debreceni, the Out...

BLOG FisheriesUncategorized October 24, 2019

Cleaning up Our Hidden Shorelines

People all over the world, from the Arctic to the Caribbean and from the Midwest to coastal cities, eat seafood. In fact, three billion people rely on seafood as their primary source of protein—that’s 40% of the world’s...

BLOG Uncategorized October 23, 2019

5 Seafood Traditions Around the World

This week, I am thrilled to be traveling to Oslo, Norway, where several of my Ocean Conservancy colleagues and I will convene with hundreds of other ocean experts and advocates for the sixth edition of the Our Ocean Conf...

BLOG Uncategorized October 22, 2019

Greetings from the Our Ocean Conference in Oslo!

Our ocean gives us so much. Whether you live near a coast or have never seen the ocean, you are touched by it every day—from the air we breathe, the water we drink or the food we eat. And that’s not to mention the majest...

BLOG Uncategorized October 21, 2019

How Can You Give Back to Our Ocean?

In the dark stretches of the deep sea, food can be hard to come by. So when hundreds of thousands of pounds of food falls from above all at once, it’s a party. We got to see the feeding bonanza first-hand this week when...

BLOG Plastics October 18, 2019

Whale Falls are the Hottest Restaurants in the Deep Sea

Plastic pollution is one of the most visible threats facing our ocean today. Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic enter our ocean on top of the 150 million metric tons that are already there, posing significant t...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized October 17, 2019

Unilever to Halve their Use of Virgin Plastic—and That’s a Big Step

I looked out of the plane window as it began to make its final descent and all I saw was a sea of grass lapping against a looming mountain range. This was not the type of sea I’m accustomed to. Fort Collins, Colorado mak...

BLOG Policy October 16, 2019

Bringing Our Ocean to the Prairie

Last year I was lucky enough to be on board the E/V Nautilus when it made a remarkable discovery in the previously unexplored deepwater of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary—thousands of brooding octopuses. The o...