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Valentine’s Day isn’t the only special day that falls this week: World Whale Day does too! In honor of both of these special holidays, I’ve put together a list of five incredibly loveable whale species to celebrate this...

For fish, relationship goals could mean anything from a morning dance to some truly bizarre life partnerships. These fascinating fish relationships might give you a new appreciation for underwater love. Pufferfish make a...

The global discourse about oceans and climate change has been surging like a rising tide. The science of ocean climate change has been featured in major recent reports including the National Climate Assessment and the In...

Florida, my home, has an iconic natural environment. It is surrounded by oceans, built upon aquifers, shot through with rivers and lakes and is dependent on clean water running through all those systems. From the Panhand...

As a young graduate student, I first came to the west coast in 1990 to study California’s kelp forests. On my first scuba dive near the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium, I was instantly mesmerized. Never had I seen suc...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Santa Barbara oil spill. The anniversary got me thinking about the three major oil spills in United States waters—Santa Barbara (1969), Exxon Valdez (1989) and De...

This blog was written by Steph Borrelle, a Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Biology and Chelsea Rochman, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy. Plastic p...

This blog is written by Kate Leavitt and Ashley Stokes. Kate Leavitt is the Director of Mission for programming and exhibits and Ashley Stokes is the Marine Mammal Rescue Program Manager at the Seacoast Science Center, l...

It’s without a doubt that otters are some of the most adorable mammals to ever grace the planet. From their curious faces to their charming behaviors, the otters of the world have earned the title of many nature lovers’...

Plastic bags have become the poster child of the ocean plastic crisis. The promotional poster for the 2016 documentary A Plastic Ocean featured a beluga whale swimming with a plastic bag. When National Geographic launche...