How to Help Sea Turtles This Earth Day
This year, the Earth Day network is asking people to Protect our Species and raise awareness of the thousands of species that are endangered. With climate change, pollution and overfishing, we are seeing dramatic decline...
How to Help Sea Turtles This Earth Day
We received some welcome news this week about a rare subspecies of whale that lives exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA has listed the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale (pronounced BROO-dus) as endangered under the Endang...
NOAA Drops a Lifeline to Rare Gulf of Mexico Whale
In honor of the upcoming National Haiku Poetry Day, I asked some of my most creative colleagues here at Ocean Conservancy to prepare a haiku poem inspired by our daily work to help protect our ocean from its greatest cha...
A Wave of Ocean-Inspired Haiku
As the Trump administration proposes to rollback regulations on offshore drilling, let’s take a look at why these safety measures were put in place to begin with. Nine years ago, on April 20th, 2010, the Gulf of Mexico f...
Remembering the 9th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster
The internet is kind of like the ocean—it’s vast, often uncontrollable and filled with creatures that rely on it for their survival. That’s why we were so excited to discover that our fintastic app, Clean Swell, was nomi...
Vote for Clean Swell to Win the Webby Award
If you’re an ocean lover, you probably already have a favorite ocean creature. Whether that be a whale, octopus or sea otter, I’m here to tell you that you are dead wrong. Sea slugs, or nudibranchs, are by far the cutest...
10 Photos of Sea Slugs That Will Blow Your Ocean-Lovin’ Mind
Captain Gary Jarvis is a veteran of the United State Air Force with more than 40 years of experience as a professional fisherman. He is also a partner with his sons in five seafood restaurants in Destin, Florida. Gary is...
Gulf For-Hire Fishermen Celebrate Permanent Red Snapper Benefits
Today, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s Environment Subcommittee will hold a markup of four bills addressing the impacts of ocean acidification. A markup is an opportunity for all members of a congr...
Four Ocean Acidification Bills Take Big Bipartisan Step Toward Becoming Law
President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Interior, David Bernhardt, is about to be voted on by the United States Senate. Ocean Conservancy is opposed to Bernhardt’s nomination, and now is the time to raise the alarm. W...
Why We Oppose Bernhardt
Earlier this week, I met with Janet Shamlian of CBS This Morning to explore the overwhelming problem of ocean plastic. Plastic touches all of our lives, from the food packaging we buy to the computers and phones we work...